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“Interesting article about plummeting NFL tv ratings this season here
https://theringer.com/nfl-tv-ratings...53a#.j7odfox8z”
Not sure how great a critique that article is, seems to want to come from an argument intentionally critical of the NFL.
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“Other excuses abound:”
Yes NFL viewings figures are down, but as has been talked about before on this thread viewing figures across the board for sports generally are down.
The election is definitely a factor, cable news network figures are up massively on previous years, it might not be the only factor, but how can the article be so sure it isn't that big of a one until after the election has finished?
Yes, overall baseball postseason figures are up, but it's for one reason only, the Cubs. The story as to whether they will finally break the curse or fall flat on their faces again is drawing big numbers. FS1 had it's biggest ever viewing numbers on Sunday night (whilst SNF was on) for Game 2 of the Cubs/Dodgers series.
The problem for MLB is figures for the other non-Cubs series through the playoffs have been down (as much as 50%) at times.
The one thing that'll reassure the NFL is that whilst down the figures are still killing everything around it. TNF last week (supposedly part of the dilution problem) had almost twice the viewing figures of the next best programme