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Post by arsenette on Mar 8, 2012 22:43:29 GMT -5
Don't act surprised, remember before k-swiss got on board they had the quarter of a million dollars for ANW2 Each tournament had a completely different Sponsor. ANW4 is no different. Jimmy and Alyson missing are the only exceptions this time though. Will be interesting the tone this time around with Jonny. Matt is a known quantity. He's hyper. Btw. For those outside of the USA who haven't seen what ANW on NBC looks like. Start with this video. Fast forward 6 minutes and that's the Sasuke section with Matt commentating.
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Post by TCM on Mar 9, 2012 1:25:44 GMT -5
Personality? Need not worry. Holy crap! That's Jonny Mosley?! Back in the old days, X-Play used to make fun of this scene from the game many times. And now he's doing commentary for G4. I feel like we've gone full circle. Somehow. That is the only reason I have ever heard of Jonny Moseley. X-Play constantly making fun of his game. I wouldn't be surprised if that's how he got chosen for the job. But in all actuality, it was probably done because he was a host for MTV.
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Post by arsenette on Mar 9, 2012 1:55:42 GMT -5
I don't believe either. Mosley has done other sports commentating for the past few years.
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Post by TCM on Mar 9, 2012 2:10:32 GMT -5
I know that, but I'm just assuming the worst/joking. With G4, it's easier to have low expectations so you are pleasantly surprised when they do something well.
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Post by arsenette on Mar 9, 2012 7:13:41 GMT -5
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Post by Ninja Chris on Mar 9, 2012 10:26:24 GMT -5
So, that makes me believe in at-least roughly 10 episodes altogether.
6 episodes for G4 (1 for each region) 4 episodes for NBC (LA, Dallas, Miami, Finals)
I'd like to see the finals separated into 2 episodes, which wouldn't make numerical sense doing '11' episodes, but could make sense if they see it as '5 NBC episodes'
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Post by blah123 on Mar 9, 2012 15:53:06 GMT -5
I'd rather they leave several for finals, like how they're airing NW27. Maybe 2 LA, 2 Dallas, 2 Miami, 4 NBC finals.
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Post by RobbyMac on Mar 9, 2012 17:15:46 GMT -5
How the hell are they going to air a 100 person final in 1 airing?
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Post by arsenette on Mar 9, 2012 19:07:59 GMT -5
How the hell are they going to air a 100 person final in 1 airing? They might not honestly. Given even how NW27 on G4 was spread out into 2 Sundays. Remember also that NBC does blocks (last year they did a 2 hour block with no breaks to recap what you just saw...) Sasuke has done a 2 hour block of an entire show.. so it is feasible if not a bit rushed. We are just so used to the current 4 hour block that 2 hours seems rushed. Hell .. that happened with what.. was it Sasuke 25? I have them mixed in my head... and that was the formula for every other Sasuke before Sasuke 20.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Mar 9, 2012 19:16:19 GMT -5
25 was a tad short of 4 hours, You're probably thinking of Sasuke 26, that was a bit over two and a half hours with commercials.
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Post by arsenette on Mar 9, 2012 19:18:25 GMT -5
25 was a tad short of 4 hours, You're probably thinking of Sasuke 26, that was a bit over two and a half hours with commercials. You are right. I always have them confused. But you know what I mean. It is possible to show a 100 person tourney in 2 hours even with commercials. TBS has done that for the better part of 10 years.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Mar 9, 2012 19:22:42 GMT -5
I'm sure we would have been freaking out if 25 was the one that was 2 hours... With 24 being an extra long 6 hour broadcast, it'd be hard to go back to a 2 hour one that fast, we'd be all "THAT'S IT!?"
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Post by KinnikuBanzukeÜberAlles on Mar 15, 2012 21:58:34 GMT -5
The best news of the day for me is that NBC is having the most popular summer show for the last six years, "America’s Got Talent," as the lead-in for "American Ninja Warrior 4."
The ANW3 finale had the ratings that it had because NBC just threw it out there to sink or swim on its own. I watched "America’s Got Talent" live every week last year, and I don't remember seeing any promotion for the ANW3 finale at all. The fact that the ratings for the finale actually grew from beginning to end, despite the lack of promotion, is probably the only reason that NBC picked it up. For ANW4 to get such a big lead-in means that NBC is expecting ANW4 to deliver, and it calms the fears that I had about NBC not promoting it like last year.
The only thing left for NBC to do is to cross-promote the hell out of ANW4. If, and it's a big if, NBC were smart, they should stick with 100 legitimate competitors competing for the grand prize, but also have an additional number of celebrities from all of their sister networks run the course NOT for the grand prize. (I'd throw the kitchen sink at it: Jay Leno/Jimmy Fallon, someone from "America’s Got Talent," someone from "The Voice," Bruce Jenner, Ryan Seacrest, Joel Mchale from "The Soup," someone from The TODAY Show like Al Roker, a WWE wrestler, someone from the Howard Stern show, etc.)
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Post by arsenette on Mar 16, 2012 1:08:48 GMT -5
Well there's a problem with that... they did have AGT lead in last year and it still placed 8th. Granted that was just one night but that's how they did it. They also advertised like hell for it even if you didn't see it. They spent millions on advertising alone and didn't get money back from it. Also since they don't have K-Swiss last year (hell.. I don't even know if they even got an external sponsor at all or just using their own money this year as all the press releases don't even HAVE a sponsor for it) they still have the same prize money (full cash this time not a sponsorship deal) they will still harp it's for half a million. Nothing in their history makes me believe they will not repeat the same line over and over. I also do not believe they have the pull for big stars to appear in the final. So far the rumors are to fill the last 10 slots with former ANW people who failed their respective prelims as a way to keep familiarity (i.e. former competitors that they can use previous footage to add a bit of history to the airing) and have their favorites run the course again. I'm curious how this is going to turn out ratingswise. They are going up against weekly established winners and it's unclear how people are going to react to this airing. It's not tied to Sasuke so you don't have the boycott of those who wanted to wait for the TBS airing but you don't have the "fun" factor that Sasuke had since all of the competitors will pretty much be legit wiping the slate clean for any funny antics that most people have come to know about this show. It's really going to be a big question mark this season. Will be a huge ratings project this summer.
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Post by yamfriend on Mar 16, 2012 6:53:32 GMT -5
Going along with that, I doubt advertising could have helped NBC with ratings last time for ANW3 no matter how much they did for it. After all, up until then there had been nothing for ANW on a major network, so this show wasn't known to as many people and thus was (in addition to being a one-night special, like you already mentioned) a big part of why they got so low in the ratings.
I honestly think that promoting any relatively unknown one-part special (such as the ANW3 on NBC) is bound to have trouble getting ratings the first time around (plus it doesn't help when considering that all of the other Ninja Warrior and ANW stuff on U.S. television is aired on one of the lowest-rated networks in the country, which probably left a lot of people who don't watch or have G4 wondering "What is this?" if they saw a commercial for the ANW3 finale on NBC. Hopefully airing ANW4 in several episodes over a few weeks (boosted by advertising) will at least make more people aware of the show and cause more people to check it out.
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Post by milktruck on Mar 16, 2012 13:19:55 GMT -5
I would love to meet Joel McHale if they could get him haha. Huge Soup and especially COmmunity fan. Six seasons and a movie!
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Post by RiderLeangle on Mar 16, 2012 18:31:48 GMT -5
Just a heads up, some info has been posted in the Dallas regionals thread.
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Post by RiderLeangle on Mar 16, 2012 20:39:53 GMT -5
Sorry for the double post but some vids from Dallas have been uploaded you know where
EDIT: My apologies for posting one of the vids twice, it has been corrected with the proper video
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Post by KinnikuBanzukeÜberAlles on Mar 16, 2012 20:47:13 GMT -5
I re-checked the ratings for the ANW3 finale, and the "America's Got Talent" episode that preceded it was a repeat that got only 25%-33% of the ratings that a new episode usually gets. The good news is that the AGT episodes leading into ANW4 are going to be new this year.
My biggest concern now is with the structure of the regional finals; I've only read vague mentions about them here, and if they turn out to consist of one stage and are in the stage 1 style, then I don't know how appealing the idea of watching multiple episodes of unknowns and cult-figures run that type of course is going to be to the average viewer. (I had a tough time sitting through 90 minutes worth of stage 1 attempts for NW27 on G4. Stage 1 to me is carried by the personalities of the contestants and the commentators, and NW27's stage 1 got too repetitive and monotonous for me. I always enjoy the other stages regardless of the contestants because the obstacles are the stars.)
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Post by RiderLeangle on Mar 16, 2012 20:53:09 GMT -5
Well Qualifiers is going to be on G4, Only Semi-finals on is going to be on NBC, the only Stage 1 will be in Vegas, since essentially we'd be on the second part which would be more like Stage 2 with competition, A time race and it has the salmon ladder, close enough
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