Posted on 10/31/2017 10:19:47 AM PDT by Kazan
Even though it was the day before Halloween, last night’s Monday Night Football was part trick and part treat for the Kansas City Chiefs as the teams snapped a two-game losing streak to pummel the Denver Broncos 29-19.
Marcus Peters stayed off the field for the national anthem last night in protest, but his efforts in the game helped seal the deal for the Chiefs’ win at home at Arrowhead Stadium. A win that now gives the once unbeaten Chiefs an enviable 6-2 record in Week 8 of the current NFL season.
Those are stats that ESPN and the league sure would like to see when it comes to the ratings this year. And they are really numbers that the Disney-owned outlet and the NFL would have liked to score last night instead of the stumble they saw.
With a 7.2 in metered market results, last night’s MNF was down 9% from last week’s Philadelphia Eagles’ 34-24 triumph over the Washington Redskins.
While not the season low of the October 16 battle between the Tennessee Titans and the Indianapolis Colts, last night’s Chiefs vs. Broncos match-up is very close to the previous MNF season low of the October 9 Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears games.
A pairing that can’t be comfortable for a league that is struggling to get ratings traction halfway through the current season as internal disputes swirl, plus political controversy and the feeling that too many games are cannibalizing the audience.
Year-to-year, last night’s Week 8 game was dead even with the Week 8 game of the 2016/2017 season when the Vikings and Bears pulled in a 7.2 MM rating in their October 31, 2016 match-up.
That Halloween 2016 game went on to deliver a 3.5 rating among adults 18-49 and 10.4 million viewers. Last week’s Eagles vs. Redskins game snared a 3.9 rating in the key demo with 11.3 million viewers.
As L.A. braces for what could be the end of our World Series 2017 dreams tonight or a resurgence and those trick or treaters, this week sees a little less NFL on the Big 4 as Thursday Night Football is only on NFL Network on November 2. But fear not TNF returns next week as it shifts from CBS to NBC.
Here’s a stat to hold you over football fans, last night’s MNF peaked with an 8.5 MM rating in the 9:30-9:45 PM ET slot
And remember, don’t eat all your candy at once tonight.
It will be a wonderful world when professional athletes will have to get jobs in the off-season again.
I changed the channel when the Denver Donkeys first took a knee and have not turned on the MFL since.
Why is he so fat?
The only way that televised games can gain high ratings, is for all other TV networks to shut down during the games, and then, all of the audiences will have no choice but football, and then, even if just one viewer watches, that game will have the highest rating for the night.
Must have been because of the election, then. (nyuk, nyuk)
TRUE!
ESPN Lost 480,000 Subscribers in October
Breitbart | 10/31/2017, 10:46:13 AM
There are a variety of ways, in which businesses judge whether they?re having a successful business day. However, if you?re losing over 15,000 customers a day, that is generally frowned upon.
No doubt, there are many frowns being worn on the faces of ESPN executives after reviewing the October Cable Coverage Estimates. ESPN lost over 15,000 subscribers for every day ending in "y," during the month of October.
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2017/10/31/espn-lost-480000-subscribers-october/
Yea, I was waiting for some freeper to give that excuse again.
I say that as a (former)Giant fan.
Clicking thru the channels I landed on this game replay... the stadium looked pretty damn full.
I guess attendance was down at all the other venues.
Here a lash - I think you are a vile piece of crap.
We are in the middle of a war for cultural and political survival and people like you cannot even give up a sporting event.
I have more respect for the idiot scum taking knees.
The players union will go on strike when they cut the Felons outrageous salaries. At that point the owners and not Gotohellamerica will have to make a decision, replacement players and break the union or give in to political correctness and go broke in the process. The owners brought this upon themselves by politicizing their game and Gotohellamerica their commissioner pushed this America hating politicization and they paid him to do it! Idiots!
There was a game last night? That’s nice. How many white guys weren’t allowed to play?
“Chiefs’?”. That’s racist. Broncos, that’s species’ ist.
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5.56mm
Apparently ESPN has a bad business model.
Or, Disney is letting it be a loss leader.
5.56mm
MNF? Is that the game Hank Williams Jr sings for?
I’m sorry but we get to decide the punishment.
For you, the punishment is to read “What Happened” and you must thank Hillary for running.
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