06-22-2010, 05:03 AM
Hi,
Travel cost and time, price of tickets, etc. Even I have watched a minute or two of soccer on the tube -- doesn't make me a fan.
And, the number of TV viewers is notoriously difficult to measure. Self reporting sucks, telephone surveys are hardly better, and basing it on feedback from cable sets doesn't work (my set stays on all the time, doesn't even have a power switch; when it's not recording something, it just stays on the last channel used -- for viewing or recording).
I can't really understand arguing either topic -- or much of anything about sports. They're just not that important or interesting. I can understand discussing some things. As to viewers versus spectators, yeah, the size of the soccer stadia is a limiting factor. Then again, there is no international TV coverage of NASCAR, which kinda is limiting too.
--Pete
(06-22-2010, 02:43 AM)Alliera Wrote: Why does it matter whether the spectators are live or not?
Travel cost and time, price of tickets, etc. Even I have watched a minute or two of soccer on the tube -- doesn't make me a fan.
And, the number of TV viewers is notoriously difficult to measure. Self reporting sucks, telephone surveys are hardly better, and basing it on feedback from cable sets doesn't work (my set stays on all the time, doesn't even have a power switch; when it's not recording something, it just stays on the last channel used -- for viewing or recording).
Quote:I can understand arguing participants, but not spectators.
I can't really understand arguing either topic -- or much of anything about sports. They're just not that important or interesting. I can understand discussing some things. As to viewers versus spectators, yeah, the size of the soccer stadia is a limiting factor. Then again, there is no international TV coverage of NASCAR, which kinda is limiting too.
--Pete
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