Posted on 09/20/2016 12:30:36 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The Week 2 Eagles/Bears Monday Night Football game earned an 8.3 overnight rating on ESPN, down 11% from Jets/Colts last year (9.3), down 16% from Eagles/Colts in 2014 (9.9), and the lowest ever for MNF in Week 2 of the season. The previous low was an 8.5 for Washington/Philadelphia in 2007.
The Eagles’ win, which peaked at a 10.1 from 9:30-9:45 PM ET, was the ninth of the first 13 NFL telecast windows this season to hit a multi-year low in the overnights. That includes all three MNF telecasts.
ESPN’s telecast drew a 16.2 rating in Philadelphia and an 11.2 in Chicago. Coverage was simulcast on local independent affiliates in both markets, earning a 13.4 on WPHL in Philadelphia and a 10.9 on WCIU in Chicago. New Orleans was the top neutral market with a 12.9, with Norfolk (12.0) and Denver (11.3) rounding out the top five.
I would not want to oppress them by watching.
Let them get real jobs.
Did not watch MNF for the first time in a long time!...............DWTS!..............
I refuse to watch. F them and F their advertisers.
Since I dumped cable (saving an estimated $22,500 over 15 years) I only watch broadcasted games.
Good. More unintended consequences for proggies.
Many good things to actually DO besides sitting and watching LEDs flickering while stuffing carbs in our gut.
And as soon as College Football is over I am turning off my cable completely.
The fans are just tuning out the NFL. Kaepernick, Goodell, et. al., are destroying the brand. I will watch soccer before I watch the NFL until K and G are gone.
I would rather watch NFL than any political debate. And I’m not a fan of the NFL. The scary thing is the polling actually changes after a debate. Who are these people that can be swayed one way or the other at this point in the process?
Freegards
I slogged through the first half before falling asleep.
The Bears are a bad team. I would not expect any game in which they are featured will have very good ratings.
On the plus side, only three idiots on the Eagles staged anthem protests (while 70,000 got in their faces).
Have you watched a debate with Trump in it? Come on, when Megyn Kelly tried to flay him with accusations that he was a super meanie to women on twitter his response "Only Rosie O'Donnell" was comedy gold. Were you not entertained?
Goodell singlehandly destroyed football-Hard to believe!
The coming civil war..
With BEyonce performing at halftime ..
Kaep as a backup dancer.. And stage prop.
thanks Nfl
You doo’d it again.
Feel good story of the day!
Nope. Not even a little. To call these things debates is an insult to anybody that ever took debate class. They’re just pathetic snark fests.
If Donald Trump wins the Presidency, you might as well be done as NFL Commissioner, because you would be considered "out of touch" with the sentiment of the fans of the league who pay for the gate receipts and watch the games on TV.
Like the Noxema commercial:
Turn it off. Turn it ALL OFF
I know it’s getting about time to boycott all TV sports. The ACC is boycotting NC, as are other sports entities. ESPN spends most of its time defending Kapernick and his ilk. Sports can’t be about sports anymore. Players have to come out with BLM salutes and any type of antiamerican, antigod protest they can think of . I so miss the days of Landry and Staubach!
“On the plus side, only three idiots on the Eagles staged anthem protests”
Roger Goodell, the High Priest of the NFL, publicly endorsed such actions.
Boycott the NFL.
I went without TV for over 4 years when I was stationed in Germany. I was too far from the base to pick up the signal. I survived without it. I may not “cut the cord”, but my viewing is down.
Marketing 101—Pi$$ing off your customers is not a pathway to success.
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