Are NFL TV ratings down in 2021?

Are NFL TV ratings down in 2021?

The 2021 NFL regular season averaged 17.1 million viewers (TV and Digital) – the highest regular-season average since 2015 and up more than 10% from 2020.

Is NFL viewership going up or down?

The National Football League (NFL) has seen its TV ratings consistently decline over the past few seasons.

Is football declining in America?

According to statista.com, the number of people over the age of six playing tackle football in the United States has declined from 8.4 million in 2006 to 5.16 million in 2018.

How low are the NFL ratings this year?

The number was down 2.5 million viewers from last season and more than 5 million from the record-setting 2020 draft.

Are ESPN ratings down?

ESPN Viewership up 40% in Prime Time. ESPN’s total day viewership in the first quarter of 2022 was up 32% vs. last year to an average of 812,000 viewers (P2+), the network’s best for the first three months of the year since 2017.

Why are TV ratings going down?

Scripted content — comedy and drama — has seen immediate viewership drop rapidly from what was du jour five or six years ago. Some of this falls upon the network heads for signing so many streaming distribution deals and giving viewers multiple ways, often including next-day access, to watch content.

Are The Talk ratings up?

“The Talk’s” 6% decline. Among women 25-54, which both shows target, “The Talk” has narrowed the gap by 96,000 demo viewers. Again, each have declined, but to varying degrees: “The Talk” has lost 8% of viewers in that demo while “The View” dropped 27%.

Are NFL TV ratings down in 2020?

According to Nielsen, excluding rescheduled games because of the pandemic, the 2020 regular season averaged 15.4 million viewers (live + same day), a 7% decline from the previous regular season. It was the lowest average audience since 2017.

Is football becoming more or less popular?

According to data from the Aspen Institute and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), from 2008-19 to 2018-19 the total number of youths aged 6 to 18 playing tackle football fell by more than 620,000, from about 2.5 million to less than 1.9 million.

Has First Take ratings improved?

Year-Over-Year Growth in Nine of the Last Ten Months Overall, the show was up 22 percent (P2+) from 2021 with an average of 445,000 viewers. With people 18-49, First Take recorded an eight percent increase from 2021 with 180,000 viewers on average in that demographic.

Is The Talk losing ratings?

Since the repeats, “The Talk” originals without Osbourne averaged 1.305 million total viewers from April 12 through May 16, a loss of 204,000 each day, a 14% drop.

Is the show bull going off the air?

In January, CBS announced the sixth and current season of Bull would be its last. The drama that was based on Phil McGraw’s early career as a jury expert got off to a great start and was always a solid performer for the network.

Is the NFL still in decline?

But the NFL’s ratings have ebbed and flowed over the past few years, with last year’s ratings down about 10% from 2019, so it is notable that viewership has bounced back so considerably.