On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:48 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Now that LA has not one but two teams, I know several local football fans who are pissed they no longer get the “good” games so they watch with less frequency > > 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. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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.
