{"id":332305,"date":"2017-10-27T08:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T07:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nfl-ratings-continue-to-plummet\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T08:10:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T07:10:30","slug":"nfl-ratings-continue-to-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nfl-ratings-continue-to-plummet\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Ratings Continue to Plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The NFL used to be the golden goose for television networks, and their ratings. However, new numbers show that the league has gone from laying golden eggs for the networks, to just laying, well, eggs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nielsen data <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/amp\/nfl\/news\/nfl-tv-ratings-2017-through-week-7-cbs-fox-nbc-espn-mnf-snf-tnf-goodell-kaepernick-trump\/kyfaiyz0x9rm19cxtn994edwr\" target=\"_blank\">obtained<\/a> by the Sporting News, \u201cLeague games averaged 15.1 million viewers through Week 7. That\u2019s down 5.1 percent from 15.87 million viewers during the same period last season and off 18.7 percent from 18.35 million viewers during the same period in 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the Sporting News notes, \u201cRatings are lagging for a variety of reasons, not least the ongoing protests during the national anthem that former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began in 2016.\u00a0Fans are still angry about Kaepernick\u2019s continued unemployment as well as what\u2019s seen as the growing politicization of the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, President Donald Trump\u00a0continues to attack the league for not forcing all players to stand during the anthem. Commissioner Roger Goodell and player reps met last week to seek a way forward, but there wasn\u2019t much progress and players continue to protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NFL\u2019s ratings loss cannot be 100% attributed to the anthem protests. And I\u2019m not suggesting the Sporting News means to say that it is. After all, the Nielsen data collected by the Sporting News goes back to 2015, a year before Colin Kaepernick began his protest. However, while causes ranging from too many games, too many penalties, the length of games, cord-cutting, and the general&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/nfl-ratings-continue-to-plummet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL used to be the golden goose for television networks, and their ratings. However, new numbers show that the league has gone from laying golden eggs for the networks, to just laying, well, eggs. According to Nielsen data obtained by the Sporting News, \u201cLeague games averaged 15.1 million viewers through Week 7. That\u2019s down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-332305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}