NFL ratings

With anthem protests in the rearview mirror, the NFL has seen a huge jump in average number of viewers from last year and posted the highest number in that regard since 2015.

The NBA has looked at Christmas Day as their personal showcase for quite some time. However, they might start looking at it differently after looking at the ratings.

HBO’s Hard Knocks ratings have crashed nearly 60 percent since 2019, averaging a mere 295,000 viewers for the first two episodes.

NFL Hall-of-Famer Ray Lewis is so troubled by the number of penalties in the NFL that he had to turn off the Super Bowl.

A columnist for ‘USA Today’ insists that pro athletes are nowhere near ramping down their extreme left-wing activism.

The NFL is asking their broadcast partners – NBC, Fox, CBS, ESPN (Disney) – to pay double what they have been paying for the right to broadcast NFL games.

The NFL is losing young viewers by the millions, and ratings for Super Bowl 55 shows that the league has lost young viewers for nine years.

Ratings for Super Bowl 55 show that viewership fell nine percent, making the game the lowest-rated Super Bowl in more than 50 years.

The NFL is expected to take an immense salary cap hit of over $18 million for the 2021-2022 season, according to a report.

The NFL playoffs continue to suffer in the ratings with across the board declines through two rounds of games.

Like the rest of the NFL’s 2020 season, the Wild Card games are suffering in the ratings, according to reports.

Not only did the NFL not get the ratings boost they were looking for in 2020, but their ratings actually crashed by seven percent.

The year of coronavirus was a major disaster for professional sports as every league suffered ratings declines, and lost billions in revenue.

The NFL is adding a 17th game to their regular-season schedule to offset the financial losses from drops in attendance and ratings.

The NFL’s Week 15 has come and gone, and the league’s ratings are once again less than thrilling with viewership down for nearly every broadcast window on its slate.

Normally, NFL ratings increase as the league gets closer and closer to its all-important postseason conclusion, at least that’s how it used to work for the NFL.

With the NFL’s numbers off seven percent over last year, advertisers are finally getting upset that fewer TV viewers are seeing their ads.

There was a time when Bill Belichick, the Patriots, and a Super Bowl rematch with the high-octane offense of the Los Angeles Rams, would translate into a massive rating night for the networks.

The NFL enjoyed a rebound in the ratings and a relatively rare week of good fortune over the Thanksgiving holiday, but it did not last.

The NFL is still struggling for TV ratings this year as the most recent ratings show a 20 percent drop for the Week 13 edition of Sunday Night Football.

The NFL’s TV ratings are off six percent overall across all networks compared to the 2019 season, numbers that could impact the league’s long term future.

There was a time when Bill Belichick and the Patriots meant big time ratings for whichever network was televising them, that time is apparently over.

The NFL was expecting the first big game after Election Day to earn a big ratings bump. However, the game delivered the exact opposite result by crashing 23 percent over 2019.

The NFL’s TV ratings jumped three percent for its Week 9 slate. But they are still down seven percent over 2019.

The NFL’s primetime games are still floundering in the ratings after the Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers Thursday Night Football game earned only a disappointing 8 million viewers.

The NFL may be beginning to show signs of a ratings rebound for its daytime windows, however, primetime is still in the midst of a massive decline.

Major League Baseball’s big game lost in the TV ratings game to a midseason football game, as ratings for Game 5 of the World Series cratered.

The Week 7 edition of Thursday Night Football featured two of the worst teams in recent memory, and the ratings corresponded appropriately.

If the executives at ESPN thought that having the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football would help their viewership, they were very mistaken.

The NFL has suffered another ratings disaster, this time a 17 percent nosedive for Week 6 of Sunday Night Football.

The National Football League experienced a ten percent drop in TV ratings compared to the 2019 season, according to reports.

Virtually no one watched from the stands in Santa Clara, California, as the 49ers took on the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday Night Football. As it turns out, virtually no one watched on television either.

An NFL official told the teams not to worry over the league’s crashing TV ratings, and said that the election and COVID are the reasons for lower viewership.

The NFL is still struggling to gain viewers as ratings for the league’s Week 3 games were down across nearly every game and network.

The Sunday Night Football clash between the Rams and the Cowboys was supposed to halt the ratings crash the NFL has experienced so far in the 2020 season.

On Wednesday, Jemele Hill warned TV networks that refusing to air NFL players protesting during the national anthem would be “journalistically irresponsible.”

The NFL’s TV ratings crept slightly upward for the 2019 season, but that success did not carry over into the conference championship games on Sunday.

The NFL was able to push the politics into the background for the 2019 season and as a result, its TV ratings saw a 5 percent bump.

In the midst of the steep NFL ratings drop of 2016-2017, the majority of the sports media was insistent that the decline had nothing to do with Colin Kaepernick’s protests.

It’s often said that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. However, if the first impression the NFL made on the television ratings this season in any indication of where they’re headed, Commissioner Roger Goodell is going to ask for a second chance.