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Report: ESPN Saw a Drop in Conservative Viewers Across the Country Over the Last Year
Washington Free Bacon ^ | 05/24/2017 | Nick Bolger

Posted on 05/24/2017 10:37:48 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

ESPN's audience saw a decrease in conservative leaning viewers between 2015 and 2016, according to a new analysis.

Deep Root Analytics conducted the study which found that ESPN viewership in 34 of 43 television markets saw a decrease in Republican viewers between the years that kick-started the presidential campaigns and election.

Multiple channels in the ESPN family saw their viewership move to the left of the political spectrum. While ESPN and ESPN 2 saw just a 5 percent and 10 percent decrease in Republican viewers respectively, ESPN News viewership became 36 percent less Republican.

The decrease in conservative viewers was not specific to rural markets. New York City's television market, which saw only 36 percent of voters support President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, underwent a 7 percent decrease in conservative viewership. Similarly, Atlanta, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Tallahassee, and Washington D.C. all saw a decrease in conservative viewers.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: diversity; drop; espn; politicallycorrect
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To: ForYourChildren

Makes NO SENSE that ESPN should be a premium channel.

I’m not going to pay extra to hear these “moral superior” clowns.

No thanks, c’ya.


41 posted on 05/24/2017 12:03:56 PM PDT by detch (")
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To: sarasota

WHAT!?!?!?!?!?


42 posted on 05/24/2017 12:05:44 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: DoughtyOne
Lol...
ESPN

43 posted on 05/24/2017 12:07:05 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: matt04

WHO would be shopping more at Target?

The average liberal or the average conservative?

All the years I worked in Manhattan I’ve never ONCE stepped foot into a Target. I dont know if there is one in Manhattan.

I used to go to the one on Staten Island all the time. A SUBURBAN area. Not anymore.

Smart move by a liberal diversity employee at Target to take the WHOLE company down!


44 posted on 05/24/2017 12:07:56 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: ForYourChildren

The only clear answer is to move further left.


45 posted on 05/24/2017 12:17:39 PM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: dp0622

Sorry, make that LGBT pride section at Target. (All inclusive)


46 posted on 05/24/2017 12:20:06 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: ForYourChildren

Colin Kaepernick


47 posted on 05/24/2017 12:21:54 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("If we cannot control our tempers, what has grace done for us?" Charles Spurgeon)
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To: PGR88
Just one of their corporate creations is the entertainment icon Ariana Grande

She is not, and was not, a product of Disney. She was a Nickelodeon actress. Granted, her music gets airtime on Radio Disney, but she's not a Disney artist in any way.

48 posted on 05/24/2017 12:23:09 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: webheart

I was reading an article about tv ratings yesterday. It seems that ratings are declining precipitously across all broadcast media, and the game that’s being played it to try to keep your own show’s ratings from decreasing more than the across the board decline. Nobody’s ADDING viewers.


49 posted on 05/24/2017 12:24:08 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: sarasota

Good Lord.


50 posted on 05/24/2017 12:26:52 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

“:^)


51 posted on 05/24/2017 12:37:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: ForYourChildren

They think that spewming left wing insanity is going to get converts. It’s more of a proselytizing exercise. Like all fanatics they don’t view the world as it is. It’s all seen through their poop colored glasses.


52 posted on 05/24/2017 1:26:08 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: dp0622; txrefugee

I wish I got Target survey’s. That would be fun.


53 posted on 05/24/2017 1:55:12 PM PDT by stillfree? (Don't let illegals turn your state into California.)
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To: stillfree?

It was GREAT! :)

They’re still too arrogant to say “WE WERE WRONG. WE ARE SORRY”


54 posted on 05/24/2017 2:14:50 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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