Re: Boxing and TV Part One - ITV
Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 12:13
Nice article McNeilly.Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Boxing and TV has provoked quite a lot of debate recently. I interviewed the top men from each of the big four UK channels to get their views and also got some interesting viewing figures.
Nothing in boxing writing took me as long as this series so you bastards better read it!
There'll be one a week for the next month and I start with ITV:
http://www.britishboxing.net/news_3319- ... t-One.html
I'd be interested in your views and opinions - not on the writing - but on the views of the TV execs and perhaps the statistics.
ITV like any other channel need to get the advertising right!!!
Look at Hatton/Mayweather - okay to us boxing fans it was a massive fight - but it got even more buys because TV and the media were all over the fight like a bad rash and thus evern ordinary Joe Public were buying!!!
Promoters and their TV paymasters need to market the sport even better than they are now - if they do - the public will buy - simple as!!