Ed Olczyk is not as good at guaranteeing stuff as his former teammate, Mark Messier.
The hockey analyst promised on a conference call last week that hockey would out-rate basketball in the Detroit market when the Red Wings and Pistons overlapped.
Not so, at least through the first two games of the Stanley Cup finals.
In fairness, the first two conflicts pitted ABC against Versus and then ESPN against Versus.
Wednesday night will provide a fairer fight: The Red Wings will be on NBC and the Pistons on ESPN.
We'll see.
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Neil,
Those NHL numbers quoted are Versus only. They do not include CBC which is available OTA in the Detroit area.
This may be significant as Hockey Night in Canada's coverage is vastly superior to Versus.
Leave the rating segments to me Best. There's no buzz for any of these games. Just look at the national and NYC numbers. I will be guessing them on my show this week. I don't sense any buzz Best, no buzz.
HockeyBob: That's fair. It's a very complicated topic. I should just stay away from this ratings stuff, as Mike indicated below your comment.
Let's see what happens with the NBC telecast tonight. That will be telling.
Basketball does not stand a chance tonight against hockey in the ratings wars.
With NBC televising hockey, the all important "Glauber Factor" comes into play.
80 billion homes in the NY metro area are freed from the curses of Versus.
Yeah but then again 80 billion homes in NY can also be watching the Yankees or the Mets which start 60 minutes before the hockey game, and 90 minutes before the basketball game.
Barbara Eden is in hiding from astronut Lisa Nowak and wondering why Tony left her to become an oil baron in Dallas, btw.
Barbara Eden could wax Lisa Nowak and mount her in Tussaud's in the blink of an eye.
And how do you think Tony "found" all that oil in Texas?
Roger Healey, the trois in the menage, retired gracefully like all 3rd wheels do, and is living the life of a BonVivant in 505land.
My aunt did Barbara Eden's hair for that series. She visited us from California a couple of weeks ago. You can Google her if you want. Lynn Masters.
I wouldn't mind doing her toenails, even today