BamaD -> RE: Arrogant, Entitled, Cry-Baby, and Coward (10/11/2016 1:32:53 PM)
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Read. A The NFL ratings are way down from last year. B There are 3 individual games that buck this trend. C All 3 games had two teams not participating in the protests. D College ratings are holding even. E Flat ratings are not the same as the huge rating drop we have seen this year. Anyone who has a modicum of knowledge about statistics knows that sample size is important. In this case the sample size is ridiculously small. You cannot project a trend from this small group of events and you cannot show cause and effect back to CK. A & E . . . no, they are not. Eleven percent is not huge. Most of that was night games up against Presidential election debates, rallies, and news. Day game TV viewing was down only 2-3% B & C . . . Lets just look at the first three weeks. Sixteen games each week so 48 games total. So three individual games had teams untouched by the CK factor. Three games is only 1.44% of the total. Look at that number: 1.44% proves nothing, no cause and effect, no correlation, nothing, nada, zip, zilch. You don't know what you are talking about. D . . . college games were not up against presidential debates. And, you are just making shit up without any numbers. E . . . I didn't say ratings were flat; I said game attendance was flat between 2008 and 2015 at about 17 million three hundred thousand. Look it up. The NFL is not building their fan base. That's why they are talking of an 18 game season. The TV rights contracts are not up for renewal until 2022 so we shall have to wait and see their future value. However, the contracts between Broadcasters and Advertisers are not locked in, so the Broadcasters are in jeopardy of losing income. Here is an article from September 2015 that suggests that TV ratings overall were falling. Ad Age also noted that among millennial consumers (18-to-24-year-olds), viewing is down 20% against last year, with 24% fewer men in this age group watching TV. The number of 18-to-34-year-old men watching TV is down 18% compared to the same period last year. Over the summer, there was a broad concern regarding cable companies and a loss of subscribers to services like Netflix and Hulu. And a report from Wall Street analysts over the summer said TV networks were stuffing their airwaves with commercials in an attempt to prop up revenue. That report said ratings were down 9% over the prior year through July with ad loads correspondingly increasing by 10%. So, an industry wide slowdown is not out of the question. Why should televised sports be immune from the effects of a stalled economy? Short answer: they are not. And here I thought the economy was going great thanks to Obama.
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