Edmonton .14

[bugeyedgomer]

I'd be interested to know what sort of figures the Sky coverage here in the UK gets and how it compares.

someone on an F1 board reported 3K for Indycar in the UK, I will try to find it

[bugeyedgomer]

here is what I pulled off a board

The week F1 got over 3 million viewers on the BBC and 900k on Sky (admittedly over 3 million less than in 2011)

Le Mans got 49k
Moto gp got 880k
Indy car got 3k

[SarahFan]

Same conversation was had at cr ap wa gon a decade ago

[00steven]

I know I'm not in .14 group, but did watch the race with friends, therefore numbers are not accurate.

Me too. The Neilson's are outdated.

[00steven]

Same conversation was had at cr ap wa gon a decade ago

Scary thought!

[nigelred5]

Indycar must be the only professional sport where more people visit the event than watch it on tv...

Only if you count the same people that attend all three days three times.......

[bugeyedgomer]

Remember also when three day totals were bogus. had that conversation a decade ago also

[anthonyvop]

Same conversation was had at cr ap wa gon a decade ago

And we all know what happened to that series.

[anthonyvop]

Me too. The Neilson's are outdated.

The people who say that are only those with poor #

Fact is most potential big sponsors take the Nielson rating extremely seriously. They just don't get total numbers but all sorts of info. Age, Ethnicity, Income, Sex, Geographic demographics are among the information provided.

Of course they also look at Internet data and honestly if I worked for the ICS I would hide all the sharp objects in the office to keep the marketing people from killing themselves when they see that.

[00steven]

The Neilson's aren't in every home. How can anyone say for certain that this many people watched. I'm not defending Indycar, these numbers are terrible. I'm just saying there not that terrible.