Posted on 10/06/2020 2:50:50 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Viewership of the NBA Finals set a new record low for television audience for the third straight game on Sunday as more fans tune out because they think the league has become too political.
Overnight ratings show game three viewership was off slightly from Friday's count, Deadline reports:
ABC telecast of Game 3 of the NBA Finals (1.5, 4.08M) from the bubble in Orlando was off a tenth from Friday night’s Game 2 and seven tenths from Game 1 last Wednesday. Last night saw the Heat get on the board with a 115-104 victory to cut the Lakers’ lead in the series to 2-1, with Game 4 set for Tuesday.
Friday’s game two of the NBA Finals set a new low for television audience - breaking the previous low set just two days earlier by game one.
Last Wednesday, game one attracted more than a half-million fewer viewers than the previous low, which was recorded in 2003, The Hollywood Reporter notes:
The NBA Finals posted record-low TV ratings on Wednesday, consistent with steep declines throughout the postseason and with other sports whose seasons were delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
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The opening game of the series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat brought 7.41 million viewers to ABC, the smallest audience for the finals since at least 1994, when total viewers began to be regularly recorded. The previous low was 8.06 million for Game 3 of the 2003 NBA Finals.
Friday’s game two of the NBA Finals set a new low for television audience - breaking the previous low set just two days earlier by game one.
Last Wednesday, game one attracted more than a half-million fewer viewers than the previous low, which was recorded in 2003, The Hollywood Reporter notes:
The NBA Finals posted record-low TV ratings on Wednesday, consistent with steep declines throughout the postseason and with other sports whose seasons were delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
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The opening game of the series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat brought 7.41 million viewers to ABC, the smallest audience for the finals since at least 1994, when total viewers began to be regularly recorded. The previous low was 8.06 million for Game 3 of the 2003 NBA Finals.
Correct.
When ratings are good, they are trumpted with blaring headlines.
When ratings are bad, they are hidden or not mentioned and often are accompanied by ‘not all markets have been tabulated yet.’
Now, replace "aristocracy" with "hard-working, successful, tax-paying Americans" in the above quote; and here we are, some 1500 years later.
The NBA represents junk basketball at its finest. Why would anyone want to watch their brand of street ball?
Straight to comments. “So someone is still playing some game?”
Maybe difficult when politicians use whatever they can to gain votes. Maybe easier to apply all the Federal laws such as LGBT for example. Where is the transgender NBA player? Where is the transgender coach? Where is the transgender owner? Where is the Native American player? Force the NBA to get ‘woke’!
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You are on to something here. This whole banning of behaviors is an affront to freedom, but the more insidious aspect of it is it doesn't teach responsibility. Quite bluntly, many parts of society have abdicated personal responsibility for nanny state rules. People have lost freedoms and liberties along with personal responsibility because someone else, namely government, is going to take care of them.
I was raised in a household where I could drink alcohol, but it was around adults and certainly not to excess. There was no mystery about it me. When I turned 18 I was prepared for the world and could handle myself. I also enjoyed the company of my elders. Certainly, I was green and I made mistakes, but those are life's lessons.
Today it seems there is little room or forgiveness of mistakes. There are legal consequences placed on kids and young adults that ruin lives. The days are over when Otis is taken to Mayberry jail to sleep one off with no legal consequence (actually, he checked himself in most of the time).
I raised my children much in the same way as I was raised. I was realistic about it. They had additional lessons that I was not taught. If they went to a high school party that got out of hand (I assumed there would be alcohol and drugs - but think upper middle class, not ghetto) my daughters were given instructions to take off if the police showed up, to call me and not go back. Literally, they had friends that faced legal consequences for going back to the house where a party was raided only to find the police waiting. Those kids were not stumbling down drunk.
Anyways, I like to think my kids turned out pretty decent. They are conservative, educated, hard working, and social with people of all ages. They are independent and live on their own when in their early to mid-twenties. To get them that way I had to break laws and the norms of many nanny staters and my own peers.
I think the thing I like most about them is that they are not afraid and they take personal responsibility. They make mistakes, and they learn from their mistakes, and so far there have been no big mistakes. I suppose the unafraid part is understated. They are not scared into losing freedom and liberties for temporary security. This whole China Flu thing, or climate change or ... the list of scares from the left goes on and my kids don't buy into it. They have tasted freedom and responsibility. They like that more than being afraid. The view the world as endless opportunities and a whole lot of fun on life's journeys. That's called white privilege these days, but when I was growing up it was called being American.
From Atlas Shrugged, there were executives of failing businesses who bragged about never making a profit and that was so virtuous.
Some corporations just need to die.
The setup is already here. In PA, essential businesses didn't have to close over the China virus. Guess who got to pick what businesses were essential and not essential.
I wonder if LeBron knows China is the most racist country out there. They don’t consider blacks to be human.
Maybe they can take the game to China?
There’s a thought. Move the league to China. We could see the Beijing Knicks play the Shanghai Celtics. Then how about the Nanjing Lakers battling the Guangzhou Pistons in the playoffs.
I wonder if LeBron knows China is the most racist country out there. They don’t consider blacks to be human.
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He never followed Weihan Zhang on twitter and the “Not Allow” to “Mixed Species” because it will cause “Grandparent Cry”.
Well stated.
To extend the discussion, I have always lamented that business people stopped wearing business professional clothing.
The point of suits and ties was not to draw attention to the suits and ties but to keep the focus on the person since everyone was visually on the same plane of existence - at least at first glance.
Coat and tie was worn infrequently as a child (mostly to church), more often in high school (dances, graduation), even more often in college (fraternities, internships, professional interest clubs, service/civic organizations) and, of course, after graduation.
Captains of industry wearing t-shirts to prove that they are down with the proles are the worst sort of private-jet Marxists. Business people wearing slovenly clothing including shorts and sneakers in an office look like snotty children.
All experience is personal and therefore unique but I know for a fact that taking pride in my appearance and taking the necessary steps to obtain clothing, shoes and maintain them had a huge effect on my everyday and overall outlook and attitude.
I’m as bad as anyone else with golf shirts and (decent-looking) jeans worn to projects now. I miss my version of the ‘Mad Men’ office.
I do this out of respect for myself. I do it out of respect for others (when others are around). Quite honestly, who wants to look a slob. It is not pleasant. It is not professional. I don't speak much about religion, but this falls under the category that our bodies are God's temple.
Take this literally, would tag your church with graffiti? Would you desecrate the inside of your church?
By the way, I completely understand you missing your version of the 'Mad Men' office. As I build my business, I am bound and determined to recapture some elements of that environment. There won't be a dress code, but any man hired will be given the card of my bespoke tailor. There will be an expectation that is quickly recognized.
The NBA finally achieved equality. They have the same ratings as the WNBA.
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