Young Audience Flees TV, Creating an Uncertain Future for Sports
While it would be premature for anyone to start digging TV’s grave, the ongoing depreciation of the traditional cable bundle and what amounts to a generational…
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Disney Christmas NBA Ratings Get Scrooged by Blowouts
A series of blowouts conspired to put the humbug on Disney’s Christmas NBA marathon, leaving ABC and ESPN with lumps of coal in their ratings stockings. According to…
Cowboys’ Annual Thanksgiving Ratings Bounty Sustains Hungry Networks: Data Viz
The last time the Dallas Cowboys headed into their traditional Thanksgiving Day game sporting a 3-7 record, America’s Team took a 33-14 drubbing at the hands of the…
Tracking the NFL’s Biggest Games and Most Reliable Teams: Data Viz
An unorthodox Sunday NFL schedule gave way to a week of steep ratings declines for the league’s network partners, which are currently 8% off the pace compared to last…
NFL’s Sunday Afternoon Ratings Thrive While Primetime Lags
As much as NFL deliveries on the whole have held up during the Great Sports Ratings Slump of 2020, a few of the TV packages are clearly outperforming the rest of the…
Notre Dame’s Win Over Clemson Gives NBC Highest Ratings in 27 Years
NBC on Saturday night earned bragging rights to its second highest-rated Notre Dame football broadcast in its 30-year partnership with the school, and all it took was an…
Prolonged Election Coverage Holds NFL Primetime Ratings at Bay—For Now
As much as the NFL and its network partners had been banking on a post-Election Day ratings recovery, the deferred results and the inevitable recounts and legal…
Legends of the Fall: World Series Is the Latest Big Sports Showcase to Hit a New Ratings Low
On New Year’s Eve, right before the nonsense with the ball and the song started up, if you were to have leaned over to whisper to your date something to the effect that…
Now That’s More Like It: Bama-Georgia Game Delivers Familiar Ratings Highs
If it didn’t quite live up to the pre-game hype, Saturday night’s showdown between the No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide and No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs served as a reminder that…
NFL Aims to Ward Off Ratings Chill With More Scoring and Fewer Flags
Anyone who’s at all vested in the NFL’s ratings performance this season may want to keep their eyes trained on the scoreboard. Unfettered by crowd noise and amid a…
Record-Low NBA Finals Ratings Belie Bubble Success as Networks Salvage Cash, Players Stay Healthy
Bad news first: The 2020 NBA Finals will go down in the books as the league’s lowest-rated title tilt since ABC first began airing the full series 50 years ago. Sunday…
MLB Hopes for a TV Ratings Rally as Yankees Stave Off Elimination
The New York Yankees earned another day in baseball’s bubblicious postseason with Thursday’s 5-1 win over Tampa Bay, but the team, MLB and network partners now face a…
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