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The Ultimate Fighter 18 TV Ratings Up 14-Percent Week-Over-Week

BAD MMA News — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:19:36 +0000

The second episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate bucked a historical trend, becoming only the fifth season in the life of the reality series to improve its audience from episode one to episode two. Episode two, which featured Team Tate’s Julianna Pena upsetting Team Rousey’s Shayna Baszler , scored an audience of 870,000 viewers, improving upon the premier episode’s 762,000 viewers, according to the Nielsen Ratings. That represents a 14-percent increase in viewership week-over-week.

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Bellator 98 Struggles in the TV Ratings Game, Although Main Event Delivers

BAD MMA News — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 01:26:35 +0000

Bellator MMA kicked off its ninth season on Saturday night with Bellator 98: Shlemenko vs. Cooper . The season opener delivered an average of 437,000 viewers over the course of the three-hour broadcast on Spike TV. Bellator faced some stiff competition, launching Season 9 opposite college football and NASCAR, which was reflected in the ratings

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Fight Master: Bellator MMA TV Ratings Rollercoaster Back to a High Point

BAD MMA News — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:05:50 +0000

Fight Master: Bellator MMA ’s TV ratings have been on a roller coaster ride all summer long, which is a good thing for the show’s most recent ratings. Episode 7 of Fight Master represented an upswing, notching 595,000 average viewers. Episode 7 also marked the show’s move from Wednesday nights to Thursday nights. The week previous, Episode 6, produced the worst TV ratings of the season at 398,000 viewers

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Co-Main Event Podcast: Episode No. 65 available with Ben Fowlkes, Chad Dundas

BAD MMA News — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:00:00 +0000

Episode No. 65 of the Co-Main Event Podcast now is available for streaming and download. This week, the fellas talk about the success of UFC Fight Night 26, Chael Sonnen’s big win, Alistair Overeem’s uncertain future, and some solid TV ratings.

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UFC Fight Night 26: Shogun vs. Sonnen Helps Drive FOX Sports 1 to Strong TV Ratings

BAD MMA News — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:43:31 +0000

The Ultimate Fighting Championship on Saturday helped launch the new FOX Sports 1 network with UFC Fight Night 26: Shogun vs. Sonnen occupying the first prime time programming on the 24/7 sports network. It was a strong move in the TV ratings game

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Spike Moves Fight Master: Belltor MMA to Thursday Nights, Effective Immediately

BAD MMA News — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 03:23:57 +0000

Bellator’s first ever reality show titled Fight Master will be moving nights and time slots for the remainder of the season.

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UFC 163 Prelims TV Ratings Suffer From Lack of Promtion and Difficult Summer Season

BAD MMA News — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:18:04 +0000

UFC 163: Aldo vs. Korean Zombie failed to drive much interest heading into Saturday’s pay-per-view event, which emanated from Rio de Janeiro, and that was reflected in the TV ratings for the preliminary bout broadcast on FX. The UFC 163 Prelims on FX attracted an audience of 1,000,000 viewers for the four-bout, two-hour broadcast. UFC 163 admittedly suffered from a lack of promotional attention overall with the launch of Fox’s new nationwide sports network, Fox Sports 1, and the re-branding of Fuel TV to Fox Sports 2, receiving the lion’s share of the media giant’s focus.

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Bellator 97 Sees Significant TV Ratings Increase Over First Summer Series Event

BAD MMA News — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 03:52:09 +0000

Like most summer television programming, Bellator’s Summer Series events have struggled to garner much steam in the TV ratings. Bellator 97 on Wednesday night did reasonably well, however, drawing and average audience of 679,000 viewers on Spike TV, which is well above the 480,000 viewers that Bellator 96 drew on June 19. Bellator’s Season 8 averaged just under 800,000 viewers per event, but that was during the much more viewer friendly winter and spring months. Bellator 97 benefited from a strong fight card that featured two title bouts and the light heavyweight tournament final, which King Mo Lawal won.

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Fight Master: Bellator MMA TV Ratings Climb to Second Best Mark of Season

BAD MMA News — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 03:45:24 +0000

Bellator ’s reality series, Fight Master: Bellator MMA, has had a tough time getting off the ground, launching over the summer viewing season, which is typically the off-season for America’s TV viewing audiences. Wednesday night’s Episode 6, however, saw TV ratings increase to the second highest point of the new series’ season thus far. The sixth episode of Fight Master drew an average audience of 629,000 viewers, second only to episode three, which garnered an audience of 676,000 viewers. Fight Master has bounced up and down in the ratings, but Wednesday night was a marked increase over a recent two-week slump that saw the show’s ratings drop to 505,000 and 441,000 for Episodes 4 and 5. Episode 6 benefited from a strong live fight card, Bellator 97, which drew and audience of 679,000

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Fight Master: Bellator MMA TV Ratings Continue to Climb

BAD MMA News — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:16:40 +0000

function not found Bellator’s reality series, Fight Master: Bellator MMA debuted with less than stellar TV ratings in its first episode but has seen a marked increase in viewership. The premier drew 432,000 viewers while the second episode improved to 545,000 viewers. After a week off, the reality series returned with its third episode on Wednesday with 676,000 viewers. Fight Master: Bellator MMA is similar to its Spike TV predecessor, The Ultimate Fighter , but has a slightly different twist to how the teams are divvied up. Much like the singing competition The Voice the participants select their teams instead of being chosen by the coaches. The show started with 32 welterweight athletes that pair off, trying to fight their way onto the show. The winners of the fights gain the opportunity to select from one of four coaches

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