NFL viewership declines is not about kneeling or Trump.
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:04 am
The trends started before the no talent QB started protesting. The decline is viewership for all sports, including nascar, is a decline not inline with political issues, but with cord cutters. ESPN is the same issue. They are bloated with filler content, which is not compelling for me or many others, and is occasionally offputting to republican viewers. ESPN could strip the political content and it wouldn't make much difference in their ratings.
For the record, I hate to see the nfl players protest the national anthem on sep 11. That is infuriating, but it doesn't explain the reason for the nfl ratings drop, which started before the protest from the SF QB.
It is embarrassing for the country that the only show whose ratings aren't declining with cord cutting is the bachelor. That makes you worry about the future. The cable bundle is under fire and will be disrupted more fundamentally soon enough. That will be brutal for ESPN/Disney.
The article is spot on about jobs as well. The positive trends have slowed since trump took office, so his blasting of Obama for better numbers that he is bragging about now is something only a partisan could embrace. I still think the gloom and doom on jobs was unwarranted, so I've got no issues with job creation thus far in trumps admin. He is close to obamas trend lines, which were damn good and difficult to impossible for trump to surpass.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar ... ts/541173/
For the record, I hate to see the nfl players protest the national anthem on sep 11. That is infuriating, but it doesn't explain the reason for the nfl ratings drop, which started before the protest from the SF QB.
It is embarrassing for the country that the only show whose ratings aren't declining with cord cutting is the bachelor. That makes you worry about the future. The cable bundle is under fire and will be disrupted more fundamentally soon enough. That will be brutal for ESPN/Disney.
The article is spot on about jobs as well. The positive trends have slowed since trump took office, so his blasting of Obama for better numbers that he is bragging about now is something only a partisan could embrace. I still think the gloom and doom on jobs was unwarranted, so I've got no issues with job creation thus far in trumps admin. He is close to obamas trend lines, which were damn good and difficult to impossible for trump to surpass.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar ... ts/541173/