NFL ratings are down 10 percent this year. It appears the kneeling controversy played a part, at least early in the season. Over saturation is another problem. LA Times story <http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-nfl-ratings-20180104-story.html>
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Steve Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> While I live football and watch quite a bit I do feel that football has >> reached a saturation point. >> >> In addition to games all day Sunday, we get Sunday Night Football, Monday >> Night Football and Thursday Night Football (on two networks). Add to that >> Directv’s NFL Ticket, Redzone Channel and the ability to watch it streaming >> and see daily ESPN and FS1 football shows and you can see how the NFL has >> diluted it’s own product. Other than when your home team is playing there >> is no urgency to set time aside to watch football. There’ll be more coming >> around soon. Add to that early Sunday morning games from London that >> nobody can find a way to watch except online and the product gets diluted >> even more. >> >> We won’t get into college football games which seem to be on every night >> from Tuesday on. >> > > The expansion was because the market seemed endless. until recently all > sports were seeing declines in the number of TV viewers except football. > They seemed bulletproof. No matter how much football they put on, and on > whatever days, people would watch in large numbers. ESPN and FS1 could put > on NFL analysis show after analysis show and they would all get decent > numbers. I don't dispute a saturation point, but the NFL has had Thursday > night games since 2006 and the numbers fell only recently. > > I feel a waning personal interest in watching NFL games that are not > Steeler games. I only watch if I can't find anything else to do. I > sometimes get nostalgic for a time they weren't a seven day a week story > here in Pittsburgh and local media (especially sports talk radio) wasn't > full of conversations that once could be heard only in dive bars. I can't > think of anything that expands my personal feelings to a broader audience > but if that's the way I feel maybe others do as well. > > -- > -- > 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. > -- 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.
