The big take away from this story for me is that they don't have to have a specific reason for the declining ratings. The prime time ratings are down too sharply to dismiss it as cyclical.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not much, but the NFL at least recognizes they have a problem. One > thing he says the league wants to look at is cutting ad breaks. I have to > agree. When watching a national prime time game, there is a sequence of > TD/conversion, two minute ad break, kickoff for a touchback, two minute ad > break. Now that NBC has English football and Fox has German football I'm > starting to prefer watching that. A game that is not a tournament > elimination game will run at most 1 hour 50 minutes with all of the > commercials during halftime. I'm losing patience with baseball and football > with their three and a half hour games. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/sports/football/nfl-tv-ratings-shorter-games-fewer-commercials.html > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
