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Networks Could Lose $200 Million if NFL Ratings Slide Continues
Breitbart Sports ^ | September 21,2017 | by Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 09/21/2017 4:13:31 PM PDT by Hojczyk

If NFL fans continue to turn away from football, the TV networks could lose as much as $200 million in earnings, according to a new report.

After ratings for Week Two crashed, adding to the angst already felt by a poor showing in Week 1, industry insiders and analysts are sounding the alarm.

A new report claims that CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC could take a $200 million hit to their estimated $2.5 billion in NFL advertising earnings if fans continue to turn off the TV, the The Hollywood Reporter noted recently.

The worries over earnings are not allayed by the fact that this season’s Week Two is the lowest mark for CBS since 1998. And the first two games of the season are down double-digits at a multi-year low compared to last year.

Guggenheim Securities analyst Michael Morris told THR that he had hoped the 2017 season would be better than last year, but admitted that “early results do not support this optimism.”

“Since the NFL season opened Sept. 7, shares of NBC parent Comcast are off 9 percent, ESPN parent Disney has seen its stock drop 3 percent and shares of CBS are down 5 percent,” THR wrote. “Only shares of 21st Century Fox have risen in that time frame, up 2 percent.”

Not only do analysts see a fall in ad revenue, but this decline may also result in falling stock prices for the networks.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agoodstart; comeuppance; finishhim; good; karma; makethemextinct; nfl; winning
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1 posted on 09/21/2017 4:13:32 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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Paging boohoo girl, paging boohoo girl! You are wanted on the courtesy phone.


2 posted on 09/21/2017 4:14:19 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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The fans are taking a knee this year to see who needs who the most.


3 posted on 09/21/2017 4:15:08 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Remember when I asked for your opinion? yeah, me neither)
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To: Hojczyk

Maybe if the NFL can get an entire team to urinate on the American flag at midfield during halftime the ratings will pick up.

/s


4 posted on 09/21/2017 4:16:37 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (World's Most Powerful Nation Falls To Invasion Of Mexican Peasants!)
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To: Hojczyk

It has become very important for the health of this country that the NFL fail. Please encourage all your friends to not only stop watching the NFL, but to cut their cable chords too.


5 posted on 09/21/2017 4:17:50 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
Die, NFL. Die.




6 posted on 09/21/2017 4:19:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Works for me. Let’s make it $400 million, $600 million.

I’m tired of people that think I should be grateful when they piss on me and what I believe in.


7 posted on 09/21/2017 4:19:54 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Maybe if the NFL can get an entire team to urinate on the American flag at midfield during halftime the ratings will pick up


They are saving that for half time in the next Superbowl.


8 posted on 09/21/2017 4:20:54 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
Maybe if the NFL can get an entire team to urinate on the American flag at midfield during halftime the ratings will pick up.

I'm sure the nfl would have no problem finding enough faggot football players to do that

9 posted on 09/21/2017 4:21:13 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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NFL players (not all, but some) biting the hand that feeds them. At some point, if revenues drop, it's likely there will be a split in the NFL and those who have been tolerant of people like Kaepernick will stop being tolerant. He has every right to voice and promote his opinions as a private citizen, on his own time. He does not, in my opinion, have the right to use the NFL stage (which he didn't create) to do so.

If you work at McDonalds, do you have the right to protest the beef industry while at work?

10 posted on 09/21/2017 4:21:36 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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The concussion thing will put them out of business sooner or later anyway.


11 posted on 09/21/2017 4:21:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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12 posted on 09/21/2017 4:21:45 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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Oh darn. That’s just a shame when justice is served to egotistical clueless crapweasles. Pleaseeeee keep it up leftists, we couldn’t dream of a better recruiting tool than you fools.


13 posted on 09/21/2017 4:21:45 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

I was thinking the same thing. And maybe have a couple of transgender sideline commentators.


14 posted on 09/21/2017 4:22:44 PM PDT by suthener ( Oliverwade)
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Two wins for the price of one: the “not”works and the No Fans Left professional whiners league.


15 posted on 09/21/2017 4:22:55 PM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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You just know Extra-Special Pansy Network will do just that.


16 posted on 09/21/2017 4:23:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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I’m hoping they lose over $1 billion!


17 posted on 09/21/2017 4:25:51 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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well, I guess $200m is a start, but really, I know we can do a whole lot better than that.


18 posted on 09/21/2017 4:25:58 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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N F Who? USC is playing Cal on Saturday.


19 posted on 09/21/2017 4:26:45 PM PDT by forgotten man
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I figure that's a low-ball estimate. IMHo, it's probably twice that much that's at risk if ratings continue down the tubes.

The NFL decided to get all PC now they can pay the price right along with the networks that thought they had a hostage audience they could shovel chit at.

20 posted on 09/21/2017 4:27:03 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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