President Obama's Thursday Jobs Speech will NOT conflict with the football game

[Tx4obama]

Excerpt:

A White House official says "We won't conflict with football," meaning an early time frame for the speech.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/31/obama-jobs-speech-congress-joint-session_n_944322.html

[krawhitham]

1. game starts at 8:45 pre game show at 8:00

The pregame show is NBC's 2nd highest rated show, 1st being the football

last seasons numbers for NBC's season opener (source tv by the numbers)

NFL Opening Kick-Off Show (8pm, 30 minutes)
- 11.460 million viewers
- 7.4/14 HH
- 3.0/14 A18-49

NFL Pre-Kick (8:30pm, 12 minutes)
- 19.680 million viewers
- 12.0/21 HH
- 7.0/22 A18-49

Nothing else NBC has can touch a 3.0 in the money demo.

So in order to not interfere with NBC's ratings he will have to give the speech at 7:00 or before, and that will not get as many viewers as the white house wants

[EffieBlack]

2. I hope no one who thinks a football game is more important than the President's speech on jobs

will trouble us with any whining and moaning and complaining about what the president is or isn't doing.

[Harmony Blue]

3. The problem is to sell the jobs plan

The President needs the average joes and janes to be watching not be distracted by football pundits talking about pre game.

[flpoljunkie]

4. Swampland: The pre-game is set to begin at 7:30PM. In 2010, it garnered 15 million viewers.

On Wednesday night, White House aides made clear that they do not expect the president’s speech to cut into the first game of the season between the Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints. The NFL pre-game show was set to begin on NBC and the NFL Network at 7:30 p.m., with game-time programming beginning at 8:30 p.m. In 2010, the pre-game show on NBC garnered 15 million viewers, and the game attracted more than 22 million. It is hard to see how Thursday is anything but a worse time spot for the President. Even if he is able to still start speaking at 8 p.m., when more people are around the television, the talk the following morning for much of his target audience will be about football, not politics.

http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/01/even-as-he-prepares-for-fall-offensive-obama-retreats-on-jobs-speech/

[babylonsister]

5. What a sad commentary that people are more concerned about

watching football.

[These Eyes]

6. How true...

And it's not even about the game. It is about finding fault somewhere - anywhere - with the president. It's hard to take folks seriously when everything is an issue.