Posted on 09/30/2017 4:28:26 PM PDT by Morgana
NFL games aren't scoring a touchdown with viewers so far this season.
Through three weeks, viewership for national telecasts of NFL games is down 11 percent this season compared to 2016, the Nielsen company said on Tuesday.
Nielsen said the games averaged 17.63 million viewers for the first three weeks of last season, and have dipped to 15.65 million this year. The Nielsen figures don't include many of the Sunday afternoon games that are shown to a regional audience, but not a national one.
It's evident that America's most popular professional sport is no longer the sure programming bet it once was. Theories abound attempting to explain the ratings plunge. Among them: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma diverted the public's attention. Before that, viewers may have been distracted by the nastiest presidential campaign in recent memory.
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Should be 100%
Should be 100%
Weren’t they off about 10% last year too? That would make 20% since 2015. And now the players are going to wear pink shoes for month. That should help the ratings.
It is at my house!
And that is 11 percent off from last year’s severely depleted ratings.
It’s completely laughable that earlier this week several “news” outlets were breathlessly saying that ratings are up. Sure. Remember the reports of Hillary out front and cruising to a win?
I suspect they will crater tomorrow.
“Weren’t they off about 10% last year too?”
yep.
Hey, CBS - Breaking News Alert. The campaign was LAST season.
?>>Theories abound attempting to explain the ratings plunge.<<
“What Happened?”
So is this 11% off of last year’s already 10% decrease or is it 11% off of an averaged figure over the recent past?
nfl has a bigger problem than kneeling
adam hartung
forbes
sept 29, 2017
Wait until all the ratings are in for the weekend.
It’s not on here.
Should be off 100 percent!
Hopefully it soon will be!
Insult us, your customers? fans?
NFL can GTH!
“So is this 11% off of last year’s already 10% decrease”
yes.
Bol!
This is the best boon for Baseball in the USA! Tebow to the Majors!
And then in December we get a month of ‘holiday’commercials that don’t mention Christmas.
Just before the season, Disney stopped reporting separate live viewership figures for linear TV and streaming, and started reporting them as a single number. Monday Night Football started reporting the “total audience” number reflecting both traditional TV watching as well as viewing via streaming services starting September 25th.
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