{"id":713,"date":"2010-11-14T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:07:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:07:54","slug":"nfl-ratings-up-everyone-else-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/nfl-ratings-up-everyone-else-down\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Ratings Up, Everyone Else Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2010\/11\/11\/nfl-boasts-most-watched-season-ever\/\">post<\/a> on my favorite football site about the NFL&#8217;s ratings this year. It had me thinking about ratings in general. While it is something to be commended, I don&#8217;t find it surprising because <a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/2010\/04\/12\/where-did-the-primetime-broadcast-tv-audience-go\/47976\">viewership numbers have been dropping for years<\/a>. Top TV shows 3 or 4 years ago were getting close to 20M viewers and 6 or 7 years ago 25M viewers. The shift can be attributed to many things like more choices (cable), DVRs, DVDs and online viewing. It&#8217;s probably a little of everything, but the one thing that pretty much has no alternative is sports. As a bonus, since they are live events, people who want to watch them will always prefer live to tape delay\/time shifting. Which means more eyeballs on commercials.<\/p>\n<p>So at least to me, this comes as no surprise that the NFL can be king without cracking 20M viewers. I think this trend will continue for live programming over normal prime time programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a post on my favorite football site about the NFL&#8217;s ratings this year. It had me thinking about ratings in general. While it is something to be commended, I don&#8217;t find it surprising because viewership numbers have been dropping for years. Top TV shows 3 or 4 years ago were getting close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,7,11],"tags":[91,347,348],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-football","category-sports","category-tv","tag-nfl","tag-ratings","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}