Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Why the Basketball Wives Boycott is B.S.
I’m not a fan of Basketball Wives. I’ve never been a fan of Basketball Wives. In fact I’ve never watched one episode of that show. Still I think the damn show is trash and should be canceled.
Still I know a ratings boycott when I see one and they are rare indeed because shows don’t fall off in a matter of weeks and even when the ratings do decline the shows are either are at a level where they are high enough that they will still get renewed (this has happened with Dancing With the Stars before) or low enough where the show was going to get canceled anyway (Think MTV’s reboot of Skins).
Basketball Wives would fall in the first category but it doesn’t because its ratings haven’t declined at all. Yes its season average is only marginally lower than season 3 but that is only because season 3’s average is bolstered by the finale and the 2 reunions.
The argument that a Basketball Wives boycott is working is invalid because of the sharp ratings decline Mob Wives has seen this season. If you need even more reason that there is no boycott occurring with Basketball Wives then explain to me how is it that La La’s Full Court Life has also seen a noticeable ratings decline in the last 3 weeks yet Basketball Wives still remains impervious.
Basketball Wives is in a position where a loss of even 600,000 viewers is not enough to cancel the show (again look at Mob Wives. That show was renewed with the ratings it’s getting) so unless people are really going to be serious about turning off the TV then all the internet chatter and all the petitions and all the fluff of fake boycotts are useless because VH1 is a network that struggles to get the ratings that Basketball Wives delivers them and don’t think for a minute (insincere statements promising change and all) that they are really scared and considering canceling this show.
Sometimes numbers speak louder than words so if you need the numbers here they are. This is the complete dossier of all 4 seasons of Basketball Wives plus this season of Mob Wives and La La’s Full Court Life because the truth is a better weapon in an argument than just trying to get a loud voice heard with no results (And I encourage you to share my post. I absolutely do not mind).
Note: Since Basketball Wives, Mob Wives and La La's Full Court Life are all nearing the end of their current seasons, I will update this list to provide the full season info for these shows (Update 6/12/12: Full season ratings for all shows below are listed).
Basketball Wives 4
(2/2012-6/2012)
Premiere: 2.544 million Episode 2: 2.041 million
Episode 3: 1.927 million
Episode 4: 1.901 million
Episode 5: 1.782 million
Episode 6: 1.971 million
Episode 7: 1.723 million
Episode 8: 1.774 million
Episode 9: 2.022 million
Episode 10: 1.874 million
Episode 11: 1.758 million
Episode 12: 1.738 million
Episode 13: 2.028 million
Episode 14: 1.938 million
Finale: 1.778 million
Reunion Part 1: 2.238 million
Reunion Part 2: 2.218 million
La La’s Full Court Life 2
(3/2012-5/2012)
Premiere: 1.813 million Episode 2: 1.703 million
Episode 3: 1.499 million
Episode 4: 1.472 million
Episode 5: 1.758 million
Episode 6: 1.648 million
Episode 7: 1.255 million
Episode 8: 1.378 million
Episode 9: 1.389 million
Finale: 1.580 million
Mob Wives 2
(1/2012-5/2012)
Premiere: 2.365 million Episode 2: 2.233 million
Episode 3: 2.058 million
Episode 4: 1.783 million
Episode 5: 1.974 million
Episode 6: 1.198 million
Episode 7: 1.463 million
Episode 8: 1.402 million
Episode 9: 1.169 million
Episode 10: 1.286 million
Episode 11: 1.263 million
Episode 12: 1.398 million
Episode 13: 1.321 million
Episode 14: 1.587 million
Episode 15: 1.298 million
Episode 16: 1.350 million
Finale: 1.230 million
Reunion Part 1: 1.196 million
Reunion Part 2: 920,000
Basketball Wives 3
(5/2011-8/2011)
Premiere: 1.828 million Episode 2: 1.751 million
Episode 3: 1.856 million
Episode 4: 1.630 million
Episode 5: 1.731 million
Episode 6: 1.858 million
Episode 7: 2.036 million
Episode 8: 2.325 million
Episode 9: 2.012 million
Finale: 2.598 million
Reunion Part 1: 2.574 million
Reunion Part 2: 2.873 million
Basketball Wives 2
(12/2010-3/2011)
Premiere: 1.416 million Episode 2: 1.142 million
Episode 3: 952,000
Episode 4: 1.383 million
Episode 5: 1.243 million
Episode 6: 1.153 million
Episode 7: 1.101 million
Episode 8: 982,000
Episode 9: 1.052 million
Clip Show: 590,000
Finale: 2.281 million
Reunion Part 1: 1.358 million
Reunion Part 2: 1.896 million
Basketball Wives
(4/2010-6/2010)
Premiere: 1.581 million Episode 2: 1.392 million
Episode 3: 1.277 million
Episode 4: 1.364 million
Episode 5: 1.234 million
Episode 6: 1.304 million
Episode 7: 1.247 million
Finale: 919,000 million
Reunion: 1.048 million
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2 comments:
The only way to really have "your voice heard" is to stop watching the show. I learned that lesson when I signed the boycott to get the Kardashian's shows off the air and it failed.
I stopped watching BBW 2 seasons ago and that's what everyone else, if you're tired of these hoodrats, have to do. No viewers, low ratings, show will be canceled....guaranteed.
Not watching a show is the most effective way of getting a show off the air. Petitions, boycotts, crying to advertisers or any of that attention grabbing nonsense will work. Networks don't even look at petitions, boycotts in which the ratings don't budge an inch don't work and networks can always get new advertisers if only 1 or 2 pull out because advertisers package their deals to the head corporation (in VH1's case it's Viacom) not just individually to the network.
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