NFL's cratering ratings may be starting to hit Fox's bottom line

CNBC ^ | October 12, 2017 | Tae Kim

[C19fan]

Declining football game television ratings will cut into Twenty-First Century Fox's earnings, according to one Wall Street firm.

Credit Suisse lowered its price target and earnings per share forecasts for the media company, citing Fox's poor Sunday NFL ratings.

"We trim our 2018/19 EPS forecasts … ahead of Q1 earnings," analyst Omar Sheikh wrote in a note to clients Thursday. "The key near term headwinds are soft NFL ratings and the risk that the Sky transaction is blocked by UK regulators."

[uncbob]

and I read that all the players for the Bears/Ravens stood yesterday.

At attention or with the arms linked BS

[left that other site]

Let’s pretend that the NFL is a different kind of business, say, a furniture store, in a free market economy.

OK...so there is this furniture store that is VERY popular. Either due to marketing, merchandising, or the high quality of its product (whatever!) the store gets bigger and bigger, richer and richer, and more and more popular. The prices go up, because the demand is so high. The owners can count on regular customers, who love the store’s furniture so much that they actually have mugs, T-Shirts, and ball caps with the Furniture Store’s Logo emblazoned upon it.

The management of the store ascertains that his customers are mostly patriotic Americans, so he has special decorations put up for American Holidays, and displays the Flag prominently. This brings in more and more customers, the prices keep going up, and everybody is happy.

Then, the owner realizes that the building is too small to house his furniture store. A new building will cost a lot more than he wants to spend, but, because his store is SO popular with the patriotic American People who patronize it, he is able to somehow get THEM to pay for it, through taxpayer funding, and, of course, an increase in pricing.

Because, for some reason, big African-American Men seem better at selling his furniture than others, he subsidizes their college, pays for their training, and gives them huge salaries to work in the store. The mostly white customers don’t mind the disproportionate numbers of black salespeople, because the customers are not racist, and the salesmen are performing, selling, the furniture, respecting the Flag, and generally providing the service they are being paid to perform.

Then, one day, the sales staff rebels, not against their employers, but against the CUSTOMERS, who are the ones paying their salaries. They do this by insulting what the customers hold dear, their Country and Their Flag. The customers find out that there are other furniture stores they can go to...ones that don’t insult them.

Or...everybody realizes that they have enough furniture, and don’t even need half of what is clogging up their homes. Then they have a big Yard Sale, of even burn or discard what they don’t need.

And there is NOTHING illegal, immoral, racist, or un-American in doing so.

The Furniture Store closes, and all the disrespectful employees lose their million-dollar jobs.

It’s called CHOICE.

[mazda77]

She is now MIA blaming hurting her foot for not showing up to any of her appointed blabbermouth sessions today in England.

[Jmouse007]

"Who cares."

The nfl, its "games", their "scores", the players are ALL totally irrelevant and utterly meaningless.

The nfl has become like the ancient gladiatorial games, the Circus Maximus; the famous gladiators and the charioteers of "renoun" from the ancient Romance Empire.

Their arenas are nothing but crumbling ruins and who can recall or name any of their "famous" gladiators or charioteers? The answer is no one! This is the fate that awaits the once "glorious" nfl:

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear --

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.'

Percy Bysshe Shelley

This is the future that awaits the nfl, and they destroyed it all with their own hands!

ALL THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT IS THE MONEY, THAT IS ALL!

They literally strangled to death their fan base "goose that laid all of their billion dollar nfl solid gold eggs" with their own hands. The goose is permanently dead and they killed it! Now, all too late they want to put Humpty Dumpy back together again and resurrect the goose from the dead.

This is rich, the National Felon League chose to side and kneel with hate America, only blm, sjw, hate whitey, communist anarchists over America and their own nfl fan base and now their fan base has been totally alienated and the very monsters they willingly aligned themselves with have turned on them and are now eating them alive.

All too late the nfl has awoken to the reality that the entire league, has an INCURABLE CASE OF SELF INFLICTED FINANCIAL EBOLA and is hemorrhaging money out of every conceivable orafice to the tune of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A WEEK with no way out and no end in sight.

The once financially lucrative nfl is circling the toilet bowl into obscurity and is quickly becoming totally irrelevant and financially worthless.

We choose to STAND with Americans for America; we choose love of country, we choose patriotism, we choose to "Live Free or Die", rather than "huddle up", "bend the knee" and subjugate ourselves, our families, and our beloved nation to the black racist, socialist, sjw, PC tyranny and perverted ideology of the National Felon League.

They want us to compromise our patriotism, our love of country, flag and nation and symbolically join the NFL in show of rebellious "unity" but "What fellowship does light have with darkness, good with evil (and subjugation for the sake of 'unity')?"

The answer is a resounding NOTHING! We can have no "unity" with those who hate our nation, its flag, its values and with those who despise us.

The anti-American National Felon League has, to quote Admiral Yamato: "awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve".

We are at war; the NFL started this cultural war against US, against America and they are attacking EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR, BELIEVE IN AND HOLD NEAR AND DEAR.

Like WWII, there can not be any, truce, or "compromise" for the sake of their false notion of "unity", no "cessation of hostilities" with the nfl and those who have made themselves our enemies with out a cause.

We Americans who love our county more than any game have now taken up the fight forced upon us by the nfl and like "the greatest generation" we too will settle for only one outcome: NOTHING LESS THAT THEIR TOTAL SURRENDER!

[jaydubya2]

The article didn't specify:

"Bears vs. Ravens

All members of the Ravens and Bears stood for the national anthem. There was no moment of prayer at M&T Bank Stadium like there was two weeks ago. Fans booed the players during the prayer."

https://sports.yahoo.com/players-teams-protested-during-national-171659749.html

[Heartlander]

The NFL and Their Westboro Baptist Church Protesters

We live in a great country that allows us to protest freely - but there are proper times and venues to protest. Take for example the Westboro Baptist Church protesting outside our fallen military funerals with their ‘God hates fags’ signs. I think all would agree, including NFL players, that this is both an inappropriate time and place – not to mention a false narrative.

But isn’t what these NFL players are doing even worse? They are essentially protesting outside all of fallen solders graves with a narrative of ‘Cops hate minorities’. I would even venture to say there are many veterans that would rather they protest outside their funeral than disrespect the flag that so many died for during our National Anthem.

The irony here is we are actually watching the NFL’s funeral due to the actions of these players. Their protest may cause future athletes, including minorities, to never have the opportunities that has been provided to them in this great country.

[Redwood71]

And the hits just keep coming. And they won’t stop till everyone attached has to run for cover to salvage their lives.

rwood

[beergarden]

I’m doing my part. Dont care and i dont listen. Chargers? Isn’t that a car?

[GOPJ]

Advertisers must 'step up to the plate' and demand lower advertising rates.

Advertisers are paying for filet mignon and they're getting yesterday's dog food.

Can you hear us Anheuser-Busch?

[trebb]

Gonna hurt the bottom line of any network that has a airing contract as advertisers see their money being wasted. Gonna hurt the NFL Sunday Ticket broadcast services too.

[Jmouse007]

Ding, ding, ding we have a winnah, give that man a Cupie Doll!

What is taking place isn't a boycott its a total, permanent repudiation of the anti-American, black racist, blm, sjw, PC pink National Felon League and everything it stands for.

The anti-American National Felon League has, to quote Admiral Yamato: "awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve".

We are at war; the NFL started this cultural war against US, against America and they are attacking EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR, BELIEVE IN AND HOLD NEAR AND DEAR.

Like WWII, there can not be any, truce, or "compromise" for the sake of their false notion of "unity", no "cessation of hostilities" with the nfl and those who have made themselves our enemies with out a cause.

We Americans who love our county more than any game have now taken up the fight forced upon us by the nfl and like "the greatest generation" we too will settle for only one outcome: NOTHING LESS THAT THEIR TOTAL SURRENDER!

[Hyman Roth]

I was on the road yesterday and had completely forgotten it was an NFL Sunday.

I watched the Back to the Future franchise and cooked all day in the kitchen. Better entertainment. The NFL is boring and the SJW stuff doesn't help.

[beergarden]

My GF asked me to drive her to Santa Barbara and I actually agreed. 2 years ago on a Sunday, I would have not done it.

[adorno]

Hit them where it hurts.

That's good, but the NFL might have better options to solve their dilemma, but hitting the "kneeling" players directly and selectively.

Here's my suggestion:

What the NFL (and other leagues with the same issue) should do, is to the players' salaries reduced by the same percentage that the league loses in revenue that the protests cost the league.

So, if the NFL loses 20% in TV revenue because of loss in viewership/ratings, then, the offending "kneelers" should be docked 20% of their pay, and the rest of the players should be docked 5% to insure that they too feel the pain exacted on the league by the offending players. Perhaps if the "non-offenders" get to feel the pain too, the offending players might get the hint that they're not just hurting themselves, and that they're hurting the teams and league and fellow players.

Same with stadium attendance, with similar reductions/docking of pay.

Then, endorsements should be docked too, since no player should be granted outside the game "additional revenue" without some sort of penalty, because those endorsements would not have occurred if not for the NFL contracts. Post-retirement contracts are a different matter, but then, the corporations doing the endorsements might begin to see repercussions themselves for endorsing "bad behavior".

[packrat35]

I learned that back when they went on strike several years ago. I never went back then.

[mairdie]

Out of nowhere, my Amazon emails are now encouraging me to link to things like “Patriots vs Buccaneers: Stream live on Prime Video.” Don’t remember seeing such ads before.

[fortheDeclaration]

True.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I ran errands yesterday and then watched a college hockey game between Penn State and Minnesota. Really did not miss the NFL.

[Vince Ferrer]

I was on the road yesterday and had completely forgotten it was an NFL Sunday. It’s much easier than I thought.

I stopped watching TV a long time ago. I gradually stopped watching when a show that t I liked ended, and wouldn't pick up a new show. By the time I was down to two shows, I stopped completely. Not Because I didn't like those shows, it was because my internal TV guide wasn't working anymore, and I could never remember to watch the show anymore. Funny how the tv schedule controls your internal clock if you let it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Cops refusing to work security detail at their games...now THAT will get their attention.