The Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale Peaks at 2.9 Million Viewers
Spike TV and the UFC jointly issued a press release this afternoon to announced the official ratings for The Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale which aired Saturday from 9pm to midnight on Spike.
Here’s an excerpt from the announcement:
Spike TV’s live telecast of “The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra” finale on Saturday, December 8 (9:00-12:12am) drew 2.5 million viewers and reached more men in the hard-to-reach demographics of 18-34, 18-49, and 25-34 than anything else on television (broadcast or cable) in its timeslot. The telecast peaked with an impressive 2.9 million viewers at 11:30pm despite head-to-head competition from the Mayweather-Hatton pay-per-view boxing event.
Based on the ratings, more young men preferred the epic battle between UFC fighters Roger Huerta and Clay Guida to Russell Crowe’s epic battles in “Gladiator” on TNT or the incredible athleticism of “The Ultimate Fighter” victor Mac Danzig to Keanu Reeves as Neo in the “Matrix” on A&E on Saturday night.
Overall, the three-hour Spike TV telecast drew a 1.8 HH (1.7 million) rating with a 2.7 rating (769,000) rating with Men 18-34, a 2.8 rating (471,000) with Men 25-34, and a 2.2 rating (1.2 million) with Men 18-49 and 2.5 million viewers.
The show drew more men in the key 18-34, 18-49, and 25-34 demographics than anything else on television in the same timeslot.
For our coverage of the event check out the Ultimate Fighter 6 archives.
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It’s good to see how the UFC is gaining fans. If the UFC keeps putting on more and more free Fight Cards; they will continue to grow.
That’s great. It looks like the ratings have raised a little. I was getting worried for a little while that it would get canceled because of the steady decline in ratings, but they’re up!
I appreciate having this information, but I wish it came with more of the historical data for TUF finales so we could see where it’s trending.
How do they get these ratings? I can understand how they get the info on how many viewers, but how do they know how many are men between different age groups?
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$55 for a boxing match. Never any good ones on free TV. Every once in a while a free show highlighting a fight from the seventies. And completely mismanaged on top of it. I wonder why MMA is still growing. Dana, keep doing what you’re doing, it’s working.
Guida = Ratings.
They gotta keep that guy around.
FixXeR ratings are done using Nielson research statistics. They are basically like a cable box that’s put into 1000’s upon 1000’s of random homes and they base ratings on a forumula using the data sent from those boxes on what the families are watching. I have a friend who used to work for them and it’s actually some fairly secretive stuff going on. I was impressed.
I’m sure the Guida/Huerta fight won some casual fans over as well. The hope with the “free fights” is to have one fight (and hopefully the last of the night) leave a lasting impression. The fight we saw ranked up there (Guida/Huerta, although not as important as the Griffin/Bonnar fight from season 1.
The Nielson ratings system has been under scrutiny for several years. I won’t get into a debate about it but they have been looking for alternatives, especially with people switching to digital cable/satellite systems. Some people say it isn’t accurate, while others disagree. Regardless, they keep track of the families that have them (tracking sex, race, age, etc) and can monitor (i believe in 15 minute intervals) what that “household” watches. They then use a multiplication formula based on how many people from different demographics watch various programming and release them as ratings (which determines the cost advertisers pay for various programming). They also notify advertisers who watches, for example, UFC programming. It is “typically (but not exclusive to)” white males 18-49, which determines the advertising we see on various shows, in this case during Spike’s UFC programming. A little winded I acknowledge, but hopefully helps answer your question (it also doesn’t mean just white males are watching, people other than white men watch, just not at the same percentage as a group).