The New England Patriots suffered the end of their eight-game winning streak in a game that saw a small rise in the ratings over last week. But the NFL is still not winning because even with better numbers this week, Monday Night Football was still a loss compared to last year’s Week 14 game.
On Monday, Verizon announced a massive deal that will allow the media giant to “distribute live games and content” for the NFL.
The Week 14 edition of Sunday Night Football represented one of the NFL’s last chances to right the ship, and prevent a large amount of coal from being delivered into their stocking just before Christmas.
Sports Media Watch has a great resource for the National Football League’s ratings since 2014 and a glance through the listings for this season through Week 13 offers a sea of red fields showing just how badly the league’s TV ratings have suffered this year.
Even without any players protesting during the national anthem, Thursday’s match up between the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins brought the NFL another ratings dud.
Black Friday will have different meanings to different people this year, for 99.9 percent of American businesses it will be a day when profits soar and businesses finish the year strong.
If it wasn’t for moral ratings victories, the NFL would have very few ratings victories at all. Week 10’s edition of Sunday Night Football was no exception.
The first half of the 2017 NFL season proved beyond a doubt, that the NFL’s ratings crisis couldn’t solely be chalked-up to the presidential election of 2016. Writing in Pro Football Talk, Mike Florio makes the case that the second half of 2017 could be even worse for the NFL, for that very same reason.
If you wanted good news for the NFL from its Monday Night Football ratings, you got it. If you wanted bad news for the NFL from its Monday Night Football ratings, you also got it.
The final numbers are in and … Breitbart’s estimate that an average of 21 million homes tuned in for the World Series games during the past two years proved very close — with the final figure calculated at 20.8 million, an increase of 6.6 million homes over the two World Series before the NFL protests began.
Close to 30 million fans watched the World Series — and YouTube TV’s catchy ad asking viewers to cut the cord.
Deadline Hollywood reports that Game 5 of the World Series crushed Sunday Night Football.
In a shocking reversal, more fans tune into Fox for baseball’s Fall Classic than for their NFL games for the second straight year. From 2010 to 2015, an average of 14.5 million viewers watched Fox for each World Series game while 20.4 million (41% more) tuned into Fox for their average football game.
The NFL used to be the golden goose for television networks, and their ratings. However, new numbers show that the league has gone from laying golden eggs for the networks, to just laying, well, eggs.
When the first half of the 21st century is way back enough for a history to written unencumbered by agenda, President Barack Obama will be remembered as the worst thing that ever happened to the Democrat Party. And to the NFL.
You know the story about the NFL’s national television audience, and how the league is quickly losing the favored-nation status they once held amongst cable and network broadcasters. Less known, though no less disastrous to the league, is that the NFL has lost local support as well.
The Philadelphia Eagles and Carolina Panthers went down to the wire. But fewer wires, and satellites and antennas, brought that exciting finish into homes than the similar conclusion between the Patriots and Buccaneers last week.
There’s no real nice way of saying this, but people just don’t seem to care about the NFL anymore. On a day that saw a Vice President leave his seat in protest, the ratings for Sunday Night Football once again fell below the number for the previous week.
Another Sunday delivers more bad ratings news for a National Football League already imploding under the weight of its own strident and proven anti-Americanism. Last week, Sunday Night Football hit a new season low, and compared to last year, sunk a full 10 percent. This week, viewership for Sunday Night Football collapsed even further, down another five percent. Compared to this same week last year, viewership fell two percent.
The NFL was underwhelming during the first week of the season, and merely whelming during the second week. Fox saw a massive ratings surge in Week 2, however, CBS and NBC saw their numbers go down compared to last year.
The NFL and certain sports networks would like you to believe that the 2016 election was the reason for the serious downtick in viewer participation, yet post-election data doesn’t really support this premise.
After a season of ratings disappointment, the NFL finally had a winner with its Christmas Day matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos.
NFL Ratings are making a comeback. Early in the season, perhaps due to the national anthem protests led by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, NFL ratings had dropped significantly. But in recent weeks, the ratings have had a bit of a rise.
If it seems like the NFL has thrust the Cowboys into every conceivable primetime spot in order to reverse the league’s negative ratings trend, that’s because they have. At least according to the Sporting News.
The NFL TV ratings have been down most of this season, though they did improve this week thanks to a pair of very exciting, rivalry games: Seattle at New England and Dallas at Pittsburgh.
