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| NFL Viewership Goes To Pot |
| 2017-01-11 |
| What has Colin Kaepernick wrought? Viewership of this past weekend’s Wild Card playoff games should have been a boost for the NFL as it continues to work through a relatively challenging regular season. Yet if the reported overnights are any indication, the league will be expecting some postseason declines as well unless either the Dallas Cowboys or the resurgent Green Bay Packers run the table after their divisional round game this coming weekend. This should be somewhat expected, however, because we’ve come out of a 2016 campaign that was as relatively as hard as it’s been for the league in a very long time. Previous analysis showed that the ratings struggle was more than a passing concern, but a real problem for both the league and its broadcasters. FOX, CBS and ESPN didn’t shout to the heavens about their numbers as loudly this season and try as it might, NBC’s sole reason for sounding its horn this season was because of Dallas. After taking a glance at how Election Day had an overstated effect on viewership, here are snapshots at how the full NFL season looked from a demographic standpoint against the past three seasons, including the TV peak of 2013. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #2 Going to pot makes Curling addictive. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2017-01-11 21:48 |
| #1 I wanted to watch 3 hours of back-to-back TV commercials and those idiots kept interrupting it with a NFL "game." Seriously, there are so many interruptions that the viewer immersion is constantly shattered. And then some announcer decides that they have to share their personal feelings. |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-01-11 19:50 |