Posted on 08/26/2020 12:42:17 PM PDT by md1986
As the NBA continues to struggle to attract the sort of viewership it had last year, the UFC is seeing the opposite happen.
Despite meaningful postseason basketball being played on a daily basis, NBA Playoff viewership has dropped from 2.39 million average viewers in 2019 to 1.68 million in 2020. That is a 30 percent decline.
Meanwhile, the UFC’s four preliminary cards since the promotion returned from its COVID-inspired hiatus have done an average of 1.17 million viewers across ESPN and ESPN+. That number is up 30 percent from what pay-per-view preliminary cards did in 2019.
Mind you, UFC pay-per-view preliminary cards largely feature unknown or past-their-prime talents. It is unsurprising that, on average, NBA Playoff games would draw more viewers. What is significant, however, is the fact that average UFC ratings are trending upwards at a time when the NBA’s are trending downward.
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Huh? The nba has ratings?
“Mysteriously“???
LOL. My exact thought.
Somewhere a crack team of Leftist marketing analysts is feverishly trying to unravel the “mystery”.
I could careless about any sports
I do like hunting and fishing...though.
If you want to talk fishin’
Well I guess that’ll be ok!
Only 30%? Let’s hope for 60%.
People want to watch sports without liberal indoctrination.
“ Despite meaningful postseason basketball being played on a daily basis,...”
Horse hockey. No one wants to watch this mess with their BLM painted on the court and anti white slogans on their jerseys, not to mention their attitude towards Whites. The NBA can rot. They do not play “meaningful” anything.
They don’t want whites watching them anyway.
The NBA is helping to fund BLM, who is busy destroying businesses and lives...gee, I wonder why people are turned off...
Yes, I know the difference between NBA and NFL.....just saying.
“Bitch ass White boy!”
Love,
Montrezl
(Is Montrezl from Leviticus or Psalms?...)
Mysteriously? You repeatedly offend your largest American base and you expect to prosper?
Yeah, I am going to watch millionaires trash me and my way of life for the fun of it. Nope! Not happening!
“Meaningful postseason basketball”.
Oxymoron
“As NBA Ratings Mysteriously Fall”
Who the hell does the NBA think their kidding?They know damned well why they’re loosing viewers.Too bad.
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