by Get woke, go broke seems to happen every time. And since sports without fans in the audience decided to pull their political moves this year, no one wants to watch it.
The NBA playoffs inside the Orlando bubble averaged 1.875 million viewers for the first week, down 20 percent from last season, per data from RealGM and ShowBuzz Daily.
Industry insiders mostly chalk up the decline in viewership to the abnormal season, with games being played in August and often during the daytime hours, when television viewership is generally down across the board.
It’s not the abnormal season. With everyone home and bored ratings should be up because there’s nothing else to do.
Naturally, they don’t want to admit the consequences to their blatant middle fingers to half the country, which makes up a larger portion of sports fans than the ANTIFA terrorists they’re trying to virtue signal to.
When will these companies learn?
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“Industry insiders mostly chalk up the decline in viewership to the abnormal season, with games being played in August and often during the daytime hours, when television viewership is generally down across the board.”
Have they compared the ratings of daytime hour games to evening games? They imply that not all games are played during the daytime.