The article mentions the network’s have reserach the protests of police violence played a part, but they dont provide any specifics. If this played a role it had to be relatively small. Ratings were down 8% last year and 10% this year,so it seems the protests at most contributed the extra 2% decline - but I doubt they were responsible for all or even most of that. I know a lot of people who stopped watching the NFL this year not because of those protests, but because of the collusion of the owners to keep Colin Kaepernick from playing.
Over saturation is not another problem, it is the problem. So are the larger trends that are decreasing TV watching generally. On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:38 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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.
