Is the NFL in decline?

But the NFL's ratings have ebbed and flowed over the past few years, with last year's ratings down about 10% from 2019, so it is notable that viewership has bounced back so considerably.

Are NFL ratings down in 2021?

The 2021 NFL regular season averaged 17.1 million viewers (TV and Digital) – the highest regular-season average since 2015 and up more than 10% from 2020. The Dallas Cowboys accounted for five of the top 10 ratings.

Are NFL TV ratings down in 2020?

The 272 regular-season games averaged 17.1 million viewers across television and digital platforms. That is a 10% increase over 2020 and is the league's highest average since 2015. ESPN's Monday Night Football saw the biggest increase as its 19-game package was up 16% over last year, averaging 14.18 million.

Are NFL ratings up or down?

Through its first four NFL broadcasts of the season, NBC is averaging 20.5 million viewers—21.6 million if you toss in streaming deliveries—and an 11.2 household rating, which mark a 10% and 8% improvement compared to the year-ago 18.7 million/10.4.

Why aren t people watching the NFL?

2-3 that revealed nearly one-third (32 percent) are “less likely to watch an NFL game” due to players taking a stand and protesting the national anthem. Thirteen percent want to watch a game because of the protests. Fifty-two percent do not base their viewing choice on the protests at all.

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How many viewers did the NFL lose?

NBC's “Sunday Night Football” is up 12% to 21.8 million viewers in the U.S. ESPN's “Monday Night Football” is pulling in 14.7 million viewers, a 17% gain. Only Fox has seen a decline — down 13% to 16.2 million viewers — largely due to a blowout loss for the Green Bay Packers in its first national telecast.

How low are the NFL ratings this year?

Between its ABC, ESPN and NFL Network broadcasts, the first round was watched by 10.03 million people, a number that is good for most things, just not the NFL. The number was down 2.5 million viewers from last season and more than 5 million from the record-setting 2020 draft.

Are NBA ratings down?

Keep in mind that overall primetime viewing levels are down 26% from the equivalent period in 2019. Compared to Game 2 of last year's Bucks-Suns NBA Finals, which took place in July, ratings increased 21% and viewership 24%.

How are NFL TV ratings so far this year?

The 272 regular-season games averaged 17.1 million viewers over television and digital platforms, a 10% increase over 2020 and the league's highest average since 2015. During the season, NFL games accounted for 91 of the top 100 telecasts on television, according to Nielsen.

What NFL team has lowest TV ratings?

The four-win New York Jets actually saw a TV ratings increase of 8%, but their 7.12 local rating is the league's lowest.

Is the NFL growing in popularity?

Since then, it has continued to grow in popularity. In the 1950s, football was the second-most popular sport in the country. In addition to this, it is commonly played in colleges. Recently, the Los Angeles Times claimed that the National Football League has more than 16 million fans in Mexico.

Are TV show ratings down?

Twelve out of 124 measured networks saw a greater average audience in 2021 than in 2016, though this is rare: 90.3% of broadcast and cable networks measured in both periods saw audiences decline.

Are NHL ratings down?

drew the highest audience of all NHL teams for the third straight season with 661,000 homes. That comes as Bruins games posted their lowest average rating (2.8 on NESN), which is down 33%. — debuted in 2017-18, it had a 1.87 rating on AT&T Rocky Mountain.

How popular is American Football 2021?

NFL TV ratings take hit with 2022 draft

Round 1 of the 2022 NFL Draft averaged 10.03 million viewers with a 5.6 rating. In comparison, the 2021 NFL Draft averaged 12.5 million viewers and the virtual 2020 NFL Draft averaged 15.3 million viewers.

Is the NBA losing fans?

Eventually, it will be official: The NBA again lost viewership on its ABC games, down from last season's all-time low of a 2.95 million average in 12 games. The current average for those premium network TV games in 2020-2021 is 2.83 million, per Showbuzz, with three ABC games to go.

Is anybody watching the NBA?

Jon Lewis of Sports Media Watch, reports that Game 1 drew a 6.3 average of 11.9 million viewers, topping only the previous two Finals, which were held at odd times of the year for the league because of the pandemic.

Who has more viewers NBA or NFL?

Yes, the NBA attracted 5 million more people than the NFL, but that's not as many as one would think given the big difference in the number of games each league plays per season. Here's the math: The NFL has 32 teams, each plays 16 games, so that's 256 games per season.

Is NBA viewership down in 2020?

NBA games on ESPN averaged 1.19 million viewers down 10% from 2019-20 and -25% from 2018-19. TNT averaged a slightly better 1.22 million viewers, a decline of 7% from last season and -18% from 2018-19. (The audiences for 2020 and 2021 include out-of-home viewing.)

Are sports declining?

Sports leagues, especially Major League Baseball, are seeing declines in younger viewership. The change comes as people turn away from traditional TV viewing and toward social media, video games and streaming TV, a trend that has only grown during the Covid-19 pandemic, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Was Super Bowl viewership down?

According to an article from CNBC, the Super Bowl ratings for viewers aged 18 to 49 have decreased every year for the past 10 years - from 52.2 million in 2011 to 34.3 million in 2021.

Are NHL ratings down 2021?

Not a great slate of local numbers for the NHL. While the NHL's national TV partners were quite happy with viewership in the 2021-22 season, it's a different story at the local level. Per the Sports Business Journal, the league's average ratings on RSNs this season dropped by 23%.

Is hockey or basketball more popular?

Football/Soccer

The sport has roughly 3.5 billion fans worldwide and 250 million players across 200 countries around the world. The next most popular sports in the world are cricket (2.5 billion fans), basketball (2.2 billion fans), and field hockey (2 billion).

How are the NBA playoff ratings?

Through the early conference finals matchups, postseason games are averaging 3.7 million viewers on the networks, up 14% when compared to 2021. More than 6 million watched game one of the 2022 Western Conference Finals between the Warriors and Dallas Mavericks.

Who has better ratings ABC or NBC?

Though CBS is once again going to be the viewership champ, Variety has learned that NBC is topping CBS — and the rest of its broadcast competition — among adults 18-49, boasting a 1.2 rating vs. Fox's 1.1, CBS' 0.8 and ABC's 0.7. The 2021-2022 season marks the third year in a row that ABC has ranked or tied as the No.