BELLATOR TV RATINGS – AVERAGING 993,000 VIEWERS

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“RAMPAGE” JACKSON-“KING MO” DELIVERS 1.4 MILLION VIEWERS, PEAKING WITH 1.6 MILLION
Bellator MMA Is Averaging 993,000 Viewers in 2017, Up 26% Over Last Year

https://mymmanews.com/bellator-mma-tv-ratings/

Spike's coverage of Bellator 175 delivered knockout ratings for Spike TV on Friday, March 31. The main event, featuring Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal drew 1.4 million viewers, peaking with 1.6 million.

Overall, Bellator 175 tallied 1 million viewers and a 0.9 rating with Men 18-49, ranking #3 in its timeslot.

BELLATOR MMA TV RATINGS CONTINUE TO SURGE
Under Scott Coker’s leadership, Bellator MMA in 2017 is averaging 993,000 viewers, a 26% increase over 2016, pacing to be the most-watched year ever for the franchise.



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Great news for Bellator. The next two international cards seem like they will bring the numbers down, but the Mohegan Sun event and London cards will balance that out.
 
This is good news. I wish only the best for Bellator. It was nice having the UFC monopoly for a few years, but it led them to oversaturate into a watered down product. Bellator's come up will force the UFC to get off their asses and start trying again (hopefully). Also, we get sweet ass cards like the June 24th one. Which I'm honestly more excited about than any UFC card this year so far.
 
At work so I can't read the entire article from the link.

Where are these numbers coming from? Are they +3 numbers? I've seen different numbers. Averaging around 830k according to Goodman. He also reported that this card avg 907k in prelim ratings.
 
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Got my answer. Crazy to see such a giant increase in +3 for this event.
 
CC27 said:
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Wonder why there are different numbers floating around.


one thing to keep in mind between these 2016 vs 2017 numbers is that kimbo gave a giant surge in ratings for the beginning of that year. After that, there weren't any other huge numbers. That is why it seems like 2016 is outdoing 2017 early on. I feel that Bellator will do better numbers in 2017 when it's all said and done. Bellator seems to have much more in the bag this year than was the case last year.
 
The 993,000 average is probably the +7 DVR number (except, of course, for Bellator 175, which has only the +3 DVR currrently).
 
Cousin Oliver said:
The 993,000 average is probably the +7 DVR number (except, of course, for Bellator 175, which has only the +3 DVR currrently).
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Plz explain this to me. I'm not too familiar with dvr and all that.

What's the difference between +3 and +7?
 
AGEZ909 said:
That's what I was assuming, but it hasn't been 7 days since the Event. That's what had me confused.
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I assume they just added the +3 DVR # for Bellator 175 to the 2017 +7 DVR average. Not a sound statistical practice, but I guess they wanted to generate a bit of positive PR before UFC 210 dominates the MMA media coverage.
 
Bellator 175 ratings seem to be about in line with a good high drawing UFC Fight Night on Fox Sports 1 card. Eye balling numbers, it looks like 900k is fairly typical for the average UFC fight night as well so I think Bellator's average number is also in line with the UFC. Thats really impressive. Coker really is the man.

If Viacom and CBS ever merge again then we might end up with Bellator fights on CBS.
 
nixkid said:
Bellator 175 ratings seem to be about in line with a good high drawing UFC Fight Night on Fox Sports 1 card. Eye balling numbers, it looks like 900k is fairly typical for the average UFC fight night as well so I think Bellator's average number is also in line with the UFC. Thats really impressive. Coker really is the man.

If Viacom and CBS ever merge again then we might end up with Bellator fights on CBS.
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UFC generally averages 900k to 1 million without DVR numbers as opposed to Bellator. So there is still a gap, with DVR UFC does even more.

Still Bellator has the ability to really step up. Problem is they will start to have shows like this Saturday which won't do as well cause its mid day. Which will start to bring the average down.
 
VIP1349 said:
UFC generally averages 900k to 1 million without DVR numbers as opposed to Bellator. So there is still a gap, with DVR UFC does even more.

Still Bellator has the ability to really step up. Problem is they will start to have shows like this Saturday which won't do as well cause its mid day. Which will start to bring the average down.
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UFC doesnt put out DVR numbers for their events, dont think MLB, NFL, NBA, even boxing or WSOF do either cause live numbers for live sports are what matters.

TV shows use DVR numbers, you'll see TUF DVR Numbers from Fox cause its a tv show but thats about it.

Viacom sees bellator as a tv show not sport so thats why they push the DVR numbers to make them bigger and why they also list Bellator under series and specials in twitter ratings not under sports.
 
VIP1349 said:
UFC generally averages 900k to 1 million without DVR numbers as opposed to Bellator. So there is still a gap, with DVR UFC does even more.

Still Bellator has the ability to really step up. Problem is they will start to have shows like this Saturday which won't do as well cause its mid day. Which will start to bring the average down.
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UFC on Spike used to do 2 million + viewers
 
Queen B said:
Its actually doing worse than last year

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Number is deceiving. kimbo's monster numbers gave the beginning of 2016 a huge boost. They didn't have anything in the bag after that.

Bellator has much more for this year. I think this year will be better for Bellator than last year
 
Good ratings my Bellator MMA. I enjoyed the card.
 
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