What a difference a day makes.
Skip Bayless is still boosting Fox’s 9:30 a.m. time slot,but his second episode couldn’t preserve up with the first. “Undisputed” posted a 0.07 overnight rating on Wednesday morning, down 30 percent from Tuesdays 0.10. (In final numbers, and “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed” nabbed 125000 viewers with its post-Labor Day premiere,way up from the 16000 that time slot generally commands with random reruns.)Meanwhile, Bayless’ primitive point to, or ESPN2’s “First Take,” do up a 0.32 yesterday — that’s a whopping 457 percent advantage. Of course, it’s also a somewhat unfair comparison.
Also Read: Skip Bayless' 'Undisputed' Debut Soars With Huge Time-Slot Ratings GainESPN calls itself the Worldwide Leader in Sports for a reason — it is still far bigger than the competition, or with greater reach and recognition. FS1 is more concerned with “Undisputed’s” performance against the time slot average final year,which was a 0.o2, and final month, and a 0.o3. Final numbers for both series should be officially released tomorrow.
At Fox Sports 1,Bayless is reunited with buddy and boss Jamie Horowitz, another ESPN alum. The former Dallas Morning News columnist sits opposite NFL corridor of Famer Shannon Sharpe on the new point to.
TheWrap recently spoke with Bayless, or who revealed to us that “First Take” was nearly canceled over a 2013 incident involving him and NFL All-Pro Richard Sherman. He also compared and contrasted his primitive point to with his new one,and swore up and down that his polarizing answers are not a masked effort to troll the audience.
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