Posted on 12/03/2017 5:11:36 PM PST by blam
When it comes to TV ratings, the National Football League needs a Hail Mary.
Average game viewership has fallen to 15 million this season, down from 16.5 million last year, and the lowest since 2008, according to data compiled by RBC Capital Markets.
The firm also finds that the league's audience is down on a year-over-year basis, and notes that it hasn't seen meaningful growth since 2013, when the measure climbed 5%. RBC says this has had an adverse effect on how advertisers view the prospect of buying time slots during NFL games.
"The sustained decline is what worries investors about media's willingness to offload the NFL's monetization risk," analyst Steven Cahall wrote in a client note.
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Sunday Night Football rising this week again and now Monday Night Football up double digits from last weeks season low, things are certainly looking brighter for the league in Week 13.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/monday-night-football-ratings-score-165825816.html
I haven’t seen this subject anywhere else so guess I will raise it.
As you point out the owners and players must be idiots but what about ... the AGENTS??
They might be obnoxious but they aren’t idiots, I would think they’ve been screaming at their players over this but of course the media wouldn’t mention it..
Don’t be rooting for the wrong team now.
Hopefully those bright lights the NFL sees are the headlights of the train heading at ‘em... :-)
Everyone from the agents to the sponsors to the guys and gals selling hot dogs and beer in the stadiums to the guys driving that stuff to the stadiums are losing big money on this. And these idiots taking a knee have to clue to any of this or what it is they’re protesting. A regular Carnival of Fools.
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