30 for 30 running thread

[playthrough]

Maybe not the greatest 30-for-30 if you're comparing it to others, but the subject was worthy and and a fit for the full 30-for-30 promotional barrage. It had already been shown at the Tribeca film festival, generating publicity, and it's been a topic on Russo's show for months. It's even an advertisement for ESPN Radio, in a way. Saying it should have been a short is silly, the shorts are great stories but very niche-y and impossible to sell nationally. This one was easy.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

This thread proves that there is no interest in the Mike and Mad Dog documentary and that no one will watch it.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

This thread proves that there is no interest in the Mike and Mad Dog documentary and that no one will watch it.

Yup. A thread on a sports journalism board about a documentary about sports talk blowhards certainly is a barometer for the mash appeal of a program.

Join us tomorrow for "large amount of golfers watch The Golf Channel."

 

[Lugnuts]

Welp. It rated pretty much middle of the pack for 30 for 30s. Certainly not a ratings failure by any stretch.

Just goes to show what journalists think will appeal or won't is not always what will appeal or won't.

If we had all the answers, I suppose we'd be running networks.

Go figure.

 

[poindexter]

How many 30 for 30s debuted on a night on the calendar where there is zero professional sports to watch?

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

How many 30 for 30s debuted on a night on the calendar where there is zero professional sports to watch?

That also focus on a story based in the number one media market.

 

[poindexter]

2.51 Rating in New York and .45 rating in the rest of the country.
New Yorkers Shockingly Loved "Mike and the Mad Dog" Documentary More Than Others

 

[poindexter]

I don't think there's ever been a 30 for 30 that generated less interest than the Georgie Best one.

Anybody make it all the way through?

 

[mpcincal]

I don't think there's ever been a 30 for 30 that generated less interest than the Georgie Best one.

Anybody make it all the way through?

I'll probably give it a shot, because when I was a kid playing AYSO soccer with my buds (we were the generation that was going to make soccer the biggest sport in the U.S., you know ) we followed the L.A. Aztecs of the NASL when Best was playing for them and we were big fans.

 

[JC]

I thought it was great.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

The Baltimore Boys on Dunbar (Md) HS and its stellar basketball run looks good.


Dunbar High: 'This wasn't just a basketball story'

 

[cjericho]

Little League one was good. Did Lloyd McClendon not grow after he turned 13. What a duke Jim Palmer was telling Trumbull not be discourage when they're losing by a lot in the third inning.