October 10, 2009
by Stephen M. Lepore
There’s this weird thing about being a hockey fan. Every time some good news about the NHL has you up, you get knocked right back down by something else.
Earlier today, we noted how the NHL game on VERSUS did twice the audience of some football league this week (more on that Monday). Well, now we’re knocked back down by news about the Wayne Gretzky documentary “King’s Ransom” on ESPN. Do your thing, Neil Best:
“Kings Ransom,” the first of 30 documentaries in ESPN’s “30 for 30” series, attracted only 645,000 viewers Tuesday – according to the Sports Business Daily – after getting a bad break when the Tigers-Twins playoff game lasted 12 innings, overlapping the film’s time slot.
Yep. A documentary about Wayne Gretzky drew more viewers than an actual hockey game. Sigh. It’d be interesting to see how both would have done had Twins-Tigers not headed to that extra inning epic, which kept me from watching either.
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