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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
That would beca one shot game.
Civ III is my one game that I can play over and over. I also download onto my tablet games like Baldur’s Gate and the console RPGs.
I would love them to respond to a “mop up on aisle 5” vomit call.
who the hell wants to sit in front of a tv and watch these million dollar America haters....most of them are as dumb as rocks....
They will be getting their $600.00 Pelosi check hopefully soon.
Wrong. ESPN is to blame.
Kaepernick knelt for the anthem several times in preseason games and no one noticed. He finally told the ESPN reporter why he was kneeling for the National Anthem and then they made a big deal about it and assigned someone to watch him. After they gave him so much attention, others started.
Had they just continued to ignored him, none of the kneeling crap would have happened. Ironically, it ended up costing them big ratings in multiple sports
Nice fight after Tulsa & Mississippi State. No, I refuse to watch their garbage also...the link to the fight showed up on my YouTube FP
PGA Golf has been taken over by leftist zombies as well—you just pay a little more attention to notice it:
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article243456556.html
I have been boycotting them since they had a puke-worthy five minute woke propaganda piece during the summer.
I have zero tolerance for social justice warrior brainwashing in sports.
Absolutely.
Yep, for the most part, I’m taking a knee on watching pro sports.
Bump
It’s nice to end the year on a positive note! :)
No sarcasm whatsoever.
Gee that’s too bad.
I’m Very Forgiving of my favorite sport.
If the NFL puts its emphasis on football and on the side serving the sick children and helping the elderly and supporting our military...with no absurd blm/transgender/gay nonsense for a year, I’ll try them out again.
Gonna be waiting a long time
BTW, it doesn’t make my heart “GLAD” that they are doing terribly.
Fruits that don’t like any sports are glad about this.
The rest should be sad it has come to this
When do the salaries start going down...
Professional sports were much better when the athletes had to have off-season jobs to survive...
No sports contract should be for longer than 1-year...
Just like we should have to pay all of our taxes only on April 15th each year...
‘’ESPN , ESPN you’re the reason I’m single again. Life is for losers when sports is your friend and who has more sports on than ESPN.’’
Winner... Tough titties for the woke
Oh dear...what a shame.
Yep.
This year of all year should have been a ratings bonanza for them.
maybe they can learn to code/s
If they’d have spontaneous but guaranteed fights break out on the field and in the stands, people might watch. But it has to be spontaneous. Folks are tired of fixed outcomes. That’s why war is inevitable.
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