freep.com - 1/3/2009
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So what did metro Detroiters prefer to watch, the Red Wings playing outdoors in the cold or the Spartans playing in the Florida sunshine? Looks like Hockeytown was really Spartytown on New Year's Day. The Winter Classic hockey game, shown locally on WDIV Channel 4, between the Wings and the ...
kuklaskorner.com - 1/3/2009
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from Gene Laverty of Bloomberg, The Detroit Red
Wings’ 6-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks yesterday at...
Wrigley Field topped last year’s National Hockey League outdoor game by 12 percent in preliminary television ratings. The game ...
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Winter Classic Ratings
mlive.com - 1/2/2009
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CHICAGO -- While more than 40,000 fans were
treated to the rare sight of an outdoor hockey...
game Thursday, several dozen got an unexpected opportunity to see the Detroit Red Wings up close prior to the Winter Classic. Players usually warm-up before ...
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Some fans enjoy up-close look at Red Wings -
Detroit ...
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Empty Netter Assists - Western Conference - 1-3-09
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... -This is why we really dislike playing the Winter Classic on New Year's Day; Michigan State's bowl game drew better ratings than the Winter Classic in "Hockeytown." ...
Long attention-span syndrome and the Spartans-Wings ratings war
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... years and was nothing close to a worldwide spectacle. Those traditions have accumulated the one thing leagues can't buy or create with slick TV ads and news conferences: time. So don't get tangled up in the media hype. NHL teams playing outdoors is a nice change of pace, but it has a long way to go before it's a tradition. In TV years, two = tradition, but the Detroit Free Press's Krista Jahnke bolsters Fogg's point regarding Southeastern Michigan's New Year's Day viewing preferences: January 3, Detroit Free Press : The Winter Classic hockey game, shown locally on WDIV Channel ...
The ratings game (mostly) explained
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... The rating is the percentage of all homes with televisions, whether or not they are in use. A share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show. "Year one was an extraordinary experience," NBC Sports President Ken Schanzer said. "Year two was the establishment of what promises to be a great tradition." So somewhere around 2,175,000 people were watching the game at one point. Many of those ratings points came from Southeastern Michigan. The Detroit Free Press's Krista Jahnke reports that about 203,000 "households" watched the Winter Classic Ii, while ...
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