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Title: The NFL is praying for a ratings turnaround
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New York Post
URL Source: http://nypost.com/2017/09/20/the-nf ... ying-for-a-ratings-turnaround/
Published: Sep 20, 2017
Author: Richard Morgan
Post Date: 2017-09-21 14:34:30 by nolu chan
Keywords: None
Views: 13393
Comments: 56
The NFL is praying for a ratings turnaround By Richard Morgan s the NFL kicks off Week 3 with “Thursday Night Football,” team owners, TV networks and Madison Avenue are hoping it can turn around an early-season ratings dip. Ratings in Weeks 1 and 2 were down 12 and 15 percent, respectively, according to Nielsen. To be sure, saturation TV coverage of Hurricane Irma sapped some eyeballs from football during the first week of play. Still, nine of the 13 NFL windows in the season-to-date posted viewership declines, Sports Media Watch reported. “Week 2 might have still been disrupted by carryover impacts from the hurricanes that hit Houston and Florida,” UBS analyst Doug Mitchelson offered by way of explanation. Jefferies analyst John Janedis drilled down further and estimated a 10 percent ratings drop for the season would cost game-carrying networks — CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC — $200 million in lost operating income. So far, CBS has been the hardest hit in total viewers, a different measure than ratings points. Its two Sunday afternoon games averaged 13.9 million viewers — down 10 percent from last year. NBC’s three primetime games have averaged 22.1 million viewers, down 7 percent, while Fox’s four Sunday games — two in early afternoon and two in late afternoon — attracted 5 percent fewer viewers, as have ESPN’s broadcasts of “Monday Night Football.”
New York Post
September 20, 2017 | 10:29pm | Updated
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#4. To: nolu chan, Stoner, Deckard, AKA Stone, redleghunter (#0)
Q: Is Baal in a generous mood? 8-P OR truthful headline in the alternative: 'NFL Hopes SJW Policy Ordered By NWO Overlords Doesn't Hurt Too Much' They aren't worried at all. BS headline is exactly what the PTB PR dept presumes we'd believe. What with fantasy football betting creating a whole new market and reason to watch, and the MSM keeping alive the so-called "excitement" of a sport-turned-political sledgehammer, corporate sponsors (who are also onboard the whole SJW-global agenda -- via coercion or because it advances the NWO) will be continue running their ads -- despite losing money and viewrship. As we've witnessed of SJW Late Night "Comedy," TV and movie fare that are LOSING MONEY, profits are gladly sacrificed in order to advance THE agenda(s). The last bastion to fall are professional sports. The NFL by promoting PINK MONTH (Feminizing the masculine disguised as "Cancer Awareness"), Black NFL Players demand the Commish ENDORSE "kneeling," and now baseball 'Gay Day' exposes the entire political-corporate collusion and subversive of America's traditional institutes. The memes of "White Privilege," "Toxic Masculinity," celebrating Abortion, and censorship of all speech critical of the Left's Insanity are de rigor...and gaining momentum. Scrape way the outer scab and we'll find pro-Globalist Homofascist-Atheists and Occultists leading the satanic charge of 0bama's original "Hope & Change" bearing much fruit -- ALL of it rotten and maggot-infested.
It is a business. They can't spin empty seats and declining viewership. The college game last week between USC and Texas, in the same stadium used by the Rams, outdrew the Rams and Charger combined. They can easily end in-game demonstrations with a 15-yard penalty strictly enforced. Two and you're gone, just like a red card in soccer. Colin Kaepernick cost the league owners a bunch of money. Attendance and ratings are still falling. Advertising revenue is tied to viewership. Rebates are given for failing to meet promised numbers. At a reduced rate. When viewership goes down, the ad costs less to run. That is money out of the owner's pocket.
It is a business and the NFL executives made some bad business decisions. The whole SJW meme was to attract more women to the game. Did not work. The women who are die hard fans like my cousins were football fans for over 20 years and hate the changes as much as the men. Plus college football always will out perform in filled seats where I live. Most of the Jerry World seats at AT&T stadium for Cowboys games are corporate vendor owned or season tickets. Regular Joes can't afford to pay for multiple games let alone season tickets.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/game?gameId=400951568 According the the ESPN summary, Rams @ 49ers was sold out with 70K+ in attendance in a 68.5K capacity stadium. Capacity: 68,500 Attendance: 70,178 71,178 attendees packed like sardines into a 68,500 capacity stadium looks like this on Youtube:
I'm sure every ticket was paid for. Don't think many actually showed up.
This from the LATimes on the turnout for the Thursday game. There can be no doubt: even if they claim they sold 100% of their tickets, the stadium was 75% empty at kickoff between two major teams. I'd say the stadium is more like 85% empty. The picture says it all. I constrained the image here on the thread but you can click it to open a new tab/window and see it at 2048x1536, well enough to count those empty seats. Devastating. This is Kaepernick's legacy. Kind of a shame that new players for the 49ers have to suffer for what he did. But I'm going soft over those young 49ers. : ) Even at halftime, this tweet shows the stadium was still at least half empty.
Looks like kickoff time. Is there a pic at a later time of the game? Maybe most of the fans were still swilling their own cheap beer in the parking lot.
I just assumed they were facing the main home team bleachers and that the visiting team didn't turn out many supporters or something. The two schools aren't very far apart from what I gathered. They remind me of being small and very rural schools from what I see. You notice there weren't that many cops there for them to honor, probably because that's all they have locally.
#55. To: Tooconservative (#53)
I was speaking of post #45. I know those home town games are packed. Lived in rural OK for a few years and everyone in town was at the game. All 5 pastors sitting next to each other for the 5 churches in a town of 600. 8 man football.
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#6. To: Liberator, stoner, Deckard, AKA Stone, redleghunter (#4)
They aren't worried at all. BS headline is exactly what the PTB PR dept presumes we'd believe.
corporate sponsors ... will be continue running their ads -- despite losing money and viewrship.
#15. To: nolu chan (#6)
#33. To: redleghunter, Tooconservative (#15)
100%
#34. To: nolu chan (#33)
#45. To: redleghunter, nolu chan (#34)
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Thursday night football. Time for kickoff.
5:26 PM - 21 Sep 2017
#52. To: Tooconservative (#45)
#53. To: redleghunter (#52)
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