First-quarter returns are in on the NFL’s TV ratings. It doesn’t look good.
Awful Announcing is reporting that through the first 4 weeks of the 2017 season, the average NFL telecast among the measured networks is down 7% compared to the same period in 2016, in which the average game was viewed by 16.96 million people.
The decline follows up a 9% drop from 2015-16.
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Some liberals have tried to blame the 2016 decline on “coverage of the Presidential election.” However, this chart proves them wrong:
The ratings disaster goes across racial lines, with black, white and Hispanic viewers tuning out.
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With TV viewers still leaving the NFL in droves, the continued drop in viewers puts an ignominious end to last year’s claim that the decline for the 2016 season was likely temporary and was only due to people spending more time watching the 2016 presidential election cycle. This year’s decline seems to clearly prove that there is far more to the higher number of people turning away from football than just the temporary diversion of an election cycle.
According to an analysis by Awful Announcing, the NFL’s ratings are crashing with steady loses during Week 4 for 2015, 2016, and 2017. Every single overall age bracket, including the important youth demographic, has seen a drop. The numbers show a 12 percent drop in viewership among the 18 to 34 age bracket, a six percent drop among middle-age viewers, and a four percent drop in the over 55 demo.
Ethnic breakdowns also show across the board drops with only a very few demos gaining traction.
Among Asian viewers, for instance, only males between 18 and 34 years of age and women over 55 saw any gains. All other demos experienced an average of a 10 percent drop. However, because the two demos saw that large of an increase, the overall number of Asian viewers rose by three percent. Still, Asian viewers rank as some of the league’s fewest fans, so this small rise, is practically meaningless.
Another finding on Asian viewers, shows that even with the tiny rise in viewers for 2017, there are some 100,000 fewer Asian viewers since 2015. So, even this one bright sport is still a loss over two years ago.
Latino or Hispanic viewers is down overall with only one demo staying relatively unchanged. Only the 55 and up age bracket remained status quo, while every other age group for both men and women fell by 10 percent on average and down two percent for the 35 to 54 bracket.
White viewers saw the most significant declines. The loss is especially important because white fans make up the bulk of the NFL’s followers. Numbers fell in every single demo among whites for both male and female viewers, with viewership off in the important youth by the steepest margin of 14 percent. The result is a loss of a million white viewers over Week 4 of 2016. And 2016 was itself a loss of two million viewers over that of 2015.
However, though the national anthem protests are thought to favor African American sentiments, the NFL lost black viewers in every single demo as well. The declines in the important 18-34 and 35-54 brackets saw the most significant losses, with a 14 percent and 11 percent loss respectively. The over age 55 bracket was the only demo to stay relatively unchanged, though it saw a small 1 percent decline.
Overall, African American viewership fell by 8 percent over 2016. This followed a 4 percent loss in 2015 and a two percent decline in 2014.
It seems that long-time NFL fans are channeling 60s guru Timothy Leary – tune out, turn off, drop out.
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