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Big East basketball not scoring for Fox/Fox Sports 1
Back in 2013, the deal was viewed skeptically, or called a gamble/ "a huge risk for the network". So far looks like it's playing out that way.
Big East basketball not scoring for Fox/Fox Sports 1
When Fox signed the Big East Conference to fill college basketball slots on Fox Sports 1 during the winter, the network was hoping it would bring viewers and help to build the new network as the original Big East did in the early days of ESPN. Well so far, the numbers show that the Big East has to catch on with viewers.
Two Big East games on Fox proper (Providence-St. John’s in late January and Northwestern-Butler in December) have drawn fewer than 400,000 viewers, the lowest audiences ever for college basketball on broadcast television. According to Sports Media Watch, two recent CBS games drew at least one million viewers.
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Fox Sports 1 had games like Marquette-St. John’s draw about 107,000 viewers and 82,000 for DePaul-Seton Hall.
Back in 2013, the deal was viewed skeptically, or called a gamble/ "a huge risk for the network". So far looks like it's playing out that way.