Posted on 09/02/2017 3:34:23 PM PDT by 11th_VA
At least one sports television network president believes that national anthem protests last season were a factor in the decline of NFL ratings.
On Wednesday during its annual NFL Media Day in New York City, CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said research his network did internally indicated that the protests played some kind of role in declining average viewers. He was emphatic, however, that it was merely a factor and not the cause. The average television viewership for the 2016 NFL season dropped roughly 8% last year from 2015.
“We did research and it was relatively proprietary research, to be honest with you,” McManus said. “But I think if you look at some of the reasons why NFL viewership was down last year, that is a reason that’s mentioned by a fair amount of viewers. It is something they don’t find attractive or they find don’t compelling in coverage of the football game. How big a factor it was? I don’t really know. But it was one of the factors that I think perhaps led to the slight decrease in ratings last year.”
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Earlier in the week, Mike Mulvihill, the executive vice president of research, league operations and strategy for Fox Sports, emphatically told Sports Business Daily media reporter John Ourand that any NFL viewer backlash to Kaepernick was not a factor in the NFL declines ...
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I spend my time and money where it is wanted and respected. NFL-free Sundays are wonderful.
Don’t forget Charlie Jones in that list of announcers. He usually did the AFL/AFC West games for NBC, and I really liked listening to him.
Well at least the Cats won today.
Right - LOL.
It’s a good reason for people who tune out to actually tune into something else so the ratings show up elsewhere - not just “turn it off.” MeTV, AntennaTV, etc. getting ratings spikes would demonstrate we do like watching stuff and would watch stuff that isn’t trash like they make today.
All of this leads onto a salary evolution event occurring at the end of this season. Marginal players will see pay-cuts coming, and decent players will probably see zero salary gain. If this were to continue for another season or two...I could see entire team salary listings cut by 10 to 20 percent. Whether this was part of the master plan by Kaepernick or not....it is a consequence.
You mean team whose owner is Jerry "You will stand for the anthem or your ass will be off my team" Jones?
The Cowboys are now my second favorite team after the Dolphins, and if any Dolphins players engage in any shenanigans regarding the anthem this year—or America in general—I'll immediately switch to rooting for the Cowboys...
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