Posted on 10/25/2017 6:44:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
As the NFL lurches toward another season of disappointing TV ratings, media executives once again are questioning whether there’s simply too much football.
There seem to be dozens of reasons for the ratings downturn, from protests during the national anthem and the continued ratings strength of cable news networks to the concussion issue and weather-related problems.
But one reason increasingly being discussed in media circles deals with NFL oversaturation, a topic that has irked network executives since the league launched NFL Network in 2003.
So far this season, fans have been able to watch games on Thursday nights, Sunday mornings, Sunday afternoons, Sunday nights and Monday nights. Later in the season, games will be available on Saturdays.
In-game highlights are a touch of a button away on a large variety of websites and mobile apps. The league heavily markets the ability to watch condensed versions of games almost as soon as they conclude.
And don’t forget the NFL-owned RedZone channel, which offers viewers an ad-free way to watch NFL games on Sundays.
Overall, NFL game viewership this season is down about 7 percent from the same point last season and 18 percent compared with the same point in the 2015 season. More concerning for network executives is the 11 percent across-the-board ratings drop in the 18- to 34-year-old demographic, the biggest drop of any demo.
Network executives were reluctant to discuss NFL oversaturation on the record. But one of the reasons many of them are focused on the perceived oversaturation of NFL content is because they believe the problem has a couple of easy answers, unlike many of the other reasons, over which the NFL has little control.
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Yep. Bad attempt at anthem “protest” denial here.
Ratings have dropped 20% since 2015. The oversaturation of Sunday * 3 (plus occasional London morning games), MNF (sometimes two on MNF), ThNF, THREE games on Thanksgiving, plus Saturday games after college season has been going on for several years before then.
They really are THAT dense
Or maybe this is a pre-emptive strike for scaling back due to profit loss.
Denial. It’s what’s for dinner.
I think they need to keep looking.
[snaps fingers] But of course! It couldn’t be anything else.
If I wanted to watch football, I'd welcome the opportunity to watch it all the time. I've just lost interest.
I was never into it, but is Fantasy Football still a thing? Seems to me that Fantasy Football gave people a reason to watch out of market games that otherwise would not hold any interest in the viewer.
If Fantasy Football is on the wane, then it would follow that overall viewership would follow.
Last Sunday, them Cowboys over-saturated the scoreboard against the Forty-Whiners, 40-10.
Doomage.
Doomage is boring when it's that much doomage.
I blame Jerry Jones.
The NFL would schedule games on every night of the week if it could.
Being anti-American is what is hurting ratings, you dolts.
Ya that’s the ticket!
.... are questioning whether there’s simply too much football.
One play of NFL football would be too much for me. BOYCOTT the NFL!!!
During baseball season, I watch as many games as I can.
Every day.
If these NFL idiots could behave like human beings, I would watch NFL football anytime a game was on.
Yep. All those people burning their NFL gear are complaining about to much football.
Yep, “Oversaturation” is destroying Baseball attendance and viewership because of 162-game seasons and Baseball every night of the week.
Oh, wait a minute, Baseball attendance and viewership are doing just fine...{;^)
These NFL buffoons are in complete denial.
Yeah sure ... over saturation thats the ticket
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