Posted on 12/31/2020 4:53:26 PM PST by dynachrome
The year of the coronavirus was a major disaster for professional sports as every league suffered ratings declines, and lost billions in revenue in 2020.
TV viewership was not off by just a little, either. It was off an average of 50 percent over last year’s numbers. Even though many Americans were stuck at home as their jobs and cities shut down, TV viewership for sports still cratered.
According to Front Office Sports, one of golf’s big games, the U.S. Open, lost 56 percent of its viewers over 2019. Basketball suffered greatly, as well. The NBA finals were down 49 percent over last year. Tennis’ Open also cratered, losing 45 percent over 2019’s games. But the worst of all was Hockey’s Stanley Cup. The NHL’s big game lost a whopping sixty percent over the 2019 championship series.
Thus far the NFL is also cratering, being down at least seven percent over last year. It has been so consistently bad this year that advertisers are starting to rise up to demand concessions for their high advertising spending since viewership has been falling each week.
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Along with everything else in the Government-Entertainment Complex.
Yawn, yawn, yawn...maybe jo and ho will write them some stimulus checks ....
I did in the 80s.
A fair amount of grief from many then.
Those opinions meant nothing then either.
My sister, when she was a security guard, would buy movies to keep mentally stimulated. She gave them to me and I have about 300 movies that I could watch.
Entertainment is downstream form survival, family and happiness.
ESAD Entertainer Spoiled Agenda Driven idiots. ESADi.
It’s like weening myself from my semi evening FOX News addiction. Dropped them cold turkey and don’t miss it at all.
Most of what I have is classic and oddball TV shows and movies.
The past few evenings, I have spun up Kodak.
Some Sweating Bullets / Tropical Heat on Roku. I have that on DVD too, somewhere around.
Televised golf, maybe, but the golf industry is otherwise thriving as an outdoor, fresh-air, no-contact sport is suddenly a welcome recreational opportunity for many.
But they’re so “woke,” and that matters above all.
Of course they are too ignorant to understand that.
I’m thinking about how much revenue cities have lost due to their shutdown.
Everybody knows who is to blame for the losses. Kaepernick is the loser who caused this. The media will not say it, but it was his assinine kneeling display that is responsible for their losses. If they had been willing to stand up for what is right, they wouldn’t be suffering these losses. All they had to do was fire his ass and that would have handled it.
Scum.
I agree. The Dodgers won the World Series but like you said, there should be an asterisk to it.
And yet horse racing handles have been extraordinary in 2020. Horses are beautiful athletes. While TV ratings isn’t tied into the sport since simulcast viewership and availability is a big portion of revenue, many tracks in North America have set daily and yearly marks. Santa Anita, a few days ago, opened its meet and over $23 million was bet in one day. That was the biggest opening day handle in its 84-year history. It isn’t for everyone, I understand that, but I do feel the sport has been boosted by the stupidity of others.
It does not matter how much they loose, only that the great reset happens. Then there will be hell to pay.
ECONOMIC POW ER ALERT!
I was a college football fan. Once I saw Sabin taking the “virtue signaling” walk, I was done. I think I tuned in to 30 seconds of so of a WV game, but without fans, it was boring as hell, and at that point, I had lost interest. I gave up watching the NFL when they started that kneeling BS, baseball lost me also. I’m done.
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