Super Bowl adds for the 2009 game have now hit $3 million for a 30 second slot. That is an 11% increase over last year, and I think ridiculous. It’s not like FOX’s $2.7m per ad was cheap, but NBC is going to make a killing this year. Can I get a WNBC Howard Stern fans?
The NBA finals are looking for rating, and some say that they are trying to grab “Super Bowl like numbers”. Well, I say good luck NBA, but there is no way in hell you’ll come close. Even with a game 7. That’s right no fucking way.
The NFL is much more popular the NBA, and even with 2 big city teams, there is no way that basketball can compete with football. So you’ll probably get big draws in Boston and Los Angeles, but I was talking to a few people at work today (medium sports fan) and both said that they might watch a game if they saw it on. Neither had any interest in going and looking for the games, and both didn’t even know that the series starts tonight.
Maybe if the NBA is counting the viewers for all games and matching that up against all the Super Bowl viewers, they might be close, but there is no way that the world tunes in to watch single NBA finals game. The world simply doesn’t care enough. I’m also sure that plenty of Boston fans will be going between the finals and the Red Sox games during commercials.
So that’s it for tonight. Next time I’ll probably be back to talking about football again. See ya.
