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In response to "Comparing apples to apples (and stepping on the neck of this), 52.6 million people watched at least a portion of the gold medal hockey game. -- nm" by David

i don't mean to say in any relative sense that it means soccer is more popular than hockey or some such. all i mean is that if a sport that is...

Posted by x (aka dmuck) Jul 13 '10, 10:51

supposedly unpopular can draw for its world final an audience of a 24 million which stands as three times as big as the audience fora a game 6 final for a sport that's supposedly popular, then the former sport doesn't really need to be concerned much about its level of unpopularity in this country.

advertisers'll happily pony up for anything that can draw those kind of numbers, and that's pretty much what matters most.

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More than anything, I think it's like The Decision, a credit to ESPN's marketing team. - David Jul 13, 11:20 1
- i think that undersells the importance of univision in the equation....nm - x Jul 13, 11:36
No! It's Thunderdome! -- nm - Reagen Jul 13, 10:56

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