Super Bowl TV ratings down

[Risen Star]

People are sick of the Patriots.

 

[Jason 82 Witten]

I'll usually watch the Super Bowl, but for the most part, during the regular season, if the Cowboys aren't playing I'm usually not watching

 

[DandyDon1722]

Actually, they are not down at all.

According to The Wrap, which is a television industry standard, the numbers were huge and only trailed 2015. Across the board, from online streaming and even foreign. I think the writer may have jumped the gun on early returns.

Here's the article from Monday evening...

http://www.thewrap.com/ratings-super-bowl-li-posts-huge-numbers-just-shy-of-record/

 

[LocimusPrime]

Actually, they are not down at all.

According to The Wrap, which is a television industry standard, the numbers were huge and only trailed 2015. Across the board, from online streaming and even foreign. I think the writer may have jumped the gun on early returns.

Here's the article from Monday evening...

http://www.thewrap.com/ratings-super-bowl-li-posts-huge-numbers-just-shy-of-record/

Thanks for the update!

 

[Beast_from_East]

I was in 5 leagues last year with buyins ranging from $20 to $5k. My newest league is over 5 years old at this point.

Meanwhile I consume every football game that's on television.

Ratings were down due to the match-up and a mediocre season and post-season more so than because fantasy football is a thing. 53 percent of American households tuned in yesterday. Id bet good money that that 53 percent represented well over 95+ percent of fantasy football households.

$5,000 buy in for a fantasy league?

Dam..............that's hardcore

 

[Beast_from_East]

A tweet I sent out

Yes, I think something is very fishy.

Tennis is sport where competitors used to be washed up at 28. Dan Marino had nothing left at the end. Elway's tank was at empty. 15 years later, it looks like Brady could play another 10 years at age 39. BS.

It ain't just these 3 either.

Its not fishy or a conspiracy or anything else.............the science of training is so good nowadays that between nutrition and workout supplements and entire businesses devoted to offseason training, the difference is night and day between athletes today compared to athletes of the past.

40 today is literally like being 30 performance wise............that is why you have guys close to 40 like Brady and Brees that look like they can play 5 more years.

 

[DallasDomination]

I don't watch football if the Cowboys are not playing, have no interest in it. I haven't watched a super bowl game since 2002.

I'm the same way. Now I've watched most Superbowls but I definitely tune out. I just think each year I become less and less a fan of football and the only thing keeping me around ia the Cowboys.

 

[Silver N Blue]

Because fantasy football players don't care about actual games.

Highly disagree....been playing since 93...I haven't missed a SB since way before then. Either way GREAT to see LG had higher ratings than the game.

 

[SDCowboy]

Do you watch the Oscars or Spelling Bee or World Cup or Pulitzer Awards or Tonys or World Series...etc

Billions couldn't care less

That was my point. lol

 

[DandyDon52]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nfl-superbowl-ratings-idUSKBN15L1L5

Nevada sports books kept a combined $10.9 million from Super Bowl bets, or 7.9 percent of the total money wagered on the game, down from the $13.3 million, or 10.1 percent, they kept last year........ is this enough to influence games??

The sports books have now come out ahead in nine consecutive Super Bowls, their last loss coming in 2008 when the New York Giants beat New England.
the brief overtime, in which the Patriots scored a touchdown in their first possession, allowed Fox to add four more commercials. It is not clear how many more ad dollars Fox was able to get; the network was charging $5 million for 30-seconds of airtime during the game. Fox brought in an estimated $509.6 million in ad revenue for the broadcast,

NFL's four U.S. TV partners, Fox, NBC, CBS and Walt Disney Co's ESPN, are collectively paying $5.4 billion per year under their current media rights contracts.

ok for the math guys, 5.4 bil divided by 32 teams us how much per team??

 

[dogunwo]

The political rhetoric being spewed by the players, Hollywood, the networks, and the NFL is beginning to take its toll on a huge portion of the fan base. Also the casual fan is being turned away by the every day drama of players.

The players aren't out there looking for someone to listen to their agenda. They are being asked.

 

[Sage3030]

Nevada sports books kept a combined $10.9 million from Super Bowl bets, or 7.9 percent of the total money wagered on the game, down from the $13.3 million, or 10.1 percent, they kept last year........ is this enough to influence games??

The sports books have now come out ahead in nine consecutive Super Bowls, their last loss coming in 2008 when the New York Giants beat New England.
the brief overtime, in which the Patriots scored a touchdown in their first possession, allowed Fox to add four more commercials. It is not clear how many more ad dollars Fox was able to get; the network was charging $5 million for 30-seconds of airtime during the game. Fox brought in an estimated $509.6 million in ad revenue for the broadcast,

NFL's four U.S. TV partners, Fox, NBC, CBS and Walt Disney Co's ESPN, are collectively paying $5.4 billion per year under their current media rights contracts.

ok for the math guys, 5.4 bil divided by 32 teams us how much per team??

168,750,000 per team.

 

[DandyDon52]

now about the ratings , all neilsen ratings are estimates based on the few thousand they actually monitor.
So they dont really know how many people are actually watching.

Now 111 mil or 115 mil doesnt matter, it is still over a 100 mil and the most watched tv show of the year, so they are going to
sell ads and make big money fox made 506 million, so they are happy, and they loved the OT, an extra 40 mil for them.

To actually affect the nfl and the $ they get ratings would have to drop down to like 99 mil, 80 mil or lower to actually
change the amount they make.
If ratings drop slightly, and nfl makes 5.2 bil instead of 5.4 bil, they wont really care, ........except jerry lol
But sorry guys the nfl is bullet proof right now,they have so many revenue streams, and it is so popular.

thing is the offseason makes us all ready to accept whatever crap they put out in sept, cause we have been without
it since feb.!!
It is like a addiction, and they have the offseason, just to make you want the "on" season.

If the Afl and Nfl had stayed separate, and both made money things might be better, as there would be competition.

 

[erod]

The media quite obviously can't take a proper poll anymore. So why do we ever believe in Neilson ratings anyway?

I was at a Super Bowl party with about 40 people. That's counts as ONE viewer. That's what tons of people do in DFW. Super Bowl parties, sports bars, online viewing, etc. How do you actually count people?

The answer is, you don't. It's a flawed measurement.

 

[DandyDon52]

168,750,000 per team.

Thanks
ok that is more than the cap so they make some $, but evidently the stadium is the cash cow for profit.

 

[erod]

Someone is an idiot if they didn't care about the Superbowl or had something better to do?

A lot of people work. A lot of people don't even have a television. Some don't even have electricity.

I realize this is completely foreign reality for millennials.

 

[SDCowboy]

A lot of people work. A lot of people don't even have a television. Some don't even have electricity.

I realize this is completely foreign reality for millennials.

Why are you explaining this to me like I'm the one who made the comment?

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Streamed it.

If I watch nowadays, I stream. Until the NFL shows they care about the product they're selling by hiring full-time officials at the least, I won't be purchasing anything.

I stream even if I like the product. I was forced to watch a Spurs game last night in real time and after watching the same Bud commercial for the 6th time I wanted to scream.

If the advertising industry changes their business model then maybe but I will not watch ads if I can avoid it.

 

[DandyDon52]

So why do we ever believe in Neilson ratings anyway?

they are the only source, and actually monitor their families, so they have had a monopoly on the ratings since tv began.

Shows live or die based on their ratings. which are only estimates based on small sample.

It really doesnt matter with SB though, they will make money, and a few mil one way or the other doesnt matter.
SB has become a party event, and people watch to see commercials, even if they dont care about football or the teams.
Most watched event of the year, so ratings dont really matter.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

A lot of people work. A lot of people don't even have a television. Some don't even have electricity.

I realize this is completely foreign reality for millennials.

There are no poor millennials?