Fewer people watching television period.
I let my cable go. I’m doing the streaming Netflix, Hulu, Amazon thing.
I use the antenna and watch the free network channels Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS when there is something we really want to watch.
For some reason, I thought this was going to be a ESPN game, so I didn’t even bother looking for it.
10 or 20 years ago, no way I miss the first game of the season, now, it barely moves my needle of my radar.
” NBC was a clear No. 1 among adults 18-49, with the 14.6 more than doubling the primetime averages for the other three Big 4 broadcast networks combined.”
BOL!.. Before we cut our cable, my wife kept a log of what we watched on tv. 0 NBC shows, 1 ABC (Kelly and ?), 5 CBS shows and the rest were Amazon Prime Acorn and other choices. We still are SF Giant fans and watch them.
Two weeks after we cut the cable, I participated in a Nielsen survey. About 30 seconds into the survey, I realized that I was talking to someone probably from India, and she was only interested in people 19-49. I stopped the interview and asked for her supervisor.
He came on with no accent. I asked him why in the hell was I being interviewed/polled if they were only interested in the 19-49 age group. I told him that they and the tv people were running a con game to sell prime time ads to suckers.
He asked what I meant by that. I asked him, how many of his target tv audience idiots still lived at home, were probably unemployed and with minimal disposable $’s and a terrible credit rating.
So, they didn’t want to interview someone like us as we are the tip of a huge iceberg of non cable and non air tv watchers.