The first weekends of professional and college football were good on television.
The only positive: “Tom Brady’s debut as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers helped Fox succeed in the biggest win of the weekend,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. “The Bucs’ defeat to the New Orleans Saints attracted 25. 85 million viewers until late expiration, 8% more than last year. “
Thursday night’s start between Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans was the ultimate. The game attracted 19. 3 million viewers on NBC, according to Deadline, a 12. 3% drop since the inaugural Green Bay Packers-Chicago Bears game of the 2019-20 season on September 5.
It is vital to note that, for the first time, this year’s odds come with the out-of-home viewing, with which Nielsen began coming in at its last championships on August 31. The drop in ratings is even worse than the gross figures show.
Locally, the Chicago Tribune reported that “the Bears-Lions game on Fox-32 had an average score of 23. 9 families in the Chicago television market,” according to Nielsen estimates, meaning it was activated in 23. 9% of all homes in the area. it represented a “32% drop since the opening of 2019 on NBC, which averaged a score of 3-5. 3 for families in the Chicago market, but only a 4% drop since the Bears’ first television broadcast at noon last season, a week five loss to the Raiders in London. Fox, who averaged 2 Five. 0. “
Meanwhile, in school football, Sports Media Watch notes that the Fighting Irish were the big winners: the Duke-Notre Dame game won 2. 4,140% more than NBC’s first ND screen last season, but the maximum of other college games has had particularly low ratings. The biggest losers were Clemson-Wake Forest and Arkansas State-Kansas State, with any of the games at least 60% below the same transmission windows in 2019 It is fair to note that those games were not exactly barn burners.
It’s too early to think that last weekend foreshadows a trend, but with the NBA and NHL in the midst of their playoffs, as well as MLB games on television, the eyeball festival is intense. are broadcasting live sports, which would possibly partly mean declining TV ratings.
My mentors were James Walker Michaels, Geoffrey N. Smith and William Baldwin. I was in the statistical branch of Forbes in the mid-1980s and then moved on to
My mentors were James Walker Michaels, Geoffrey N. Smith and William Baldwin. I started at the Forbes statistics branch in the mid-1980s and then went on to write. I wrote basically about high-priced stocks that, I think, were doomed to failure. Example: My account of CUC International showed how the company’s competitive accounting masks a money problem CUC’s action subsequently collapsed and the CEO was convicted of fraud. My CUC story is the subject of the bankruptcy of the 2004 book Forbes Greatest Investing Stories ( John Wiley