TV Sport audience declines worldwide among younger viewers

[Rennadrel]

Those cable package prices would be a good reason why they aren't watching sports. Who wants to pay $250 a season just to watch all the games of local teams when the packages offer every game?

[JohnBrown1917]

The peak was 14 Million, the Total viewership of the Finals was 36 million.

Still nowhere near the football world cup.

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Well tv viewership is down for most young people
when was the last time you saw a young person who owned a tv?

Myself? My sister?

[GennGreymane]

Well tv viewership is down for most young people
when was the last time you saw a young person who owned a tv?

its literally a tumor on my console now.

[Wiyld]

I'm willing to bet most people are like me in that they just watch their teams, but not sports in general. If the Packers, Badgers, or Brewers aren't playing then I don't care to watch.

BOOOOOOOOOO

Stinkin cheese heads!!!

Go Vikes!

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Imo, watching sports is possibly the most boring thing you can do with your free time.

Who the hell cares if someone else kicks against a ball, cycles around a track or swims back and forth in a certain amount of time.

[Wiyld]

Imo, watching sports is possibly the most boring thing you can do with your free time.

Who the hell cares if someone else kicks against a ball, cycles around a track or swims back and forth in a certain amount of time.

millions upon millions of people

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millions upon millions of people

Yeah, this always puzzled me.

Maybe they got nothing going on in their own lives and have to watch other peoples accomplishments or something?

[PaladinBash]

Esports are getting more popular. Had a few people at work talking about various Hearthstone streams they watched after playing it on their phone a little. Hell I went to a 24hr food place a couple of weeks back that was streaming a League championship on a big wall TV. Good 30 people in there stuffing their faces and cheering like a game of football while they watched it. Very strange to see.

[JohnBrown1917]

Yeah, this always puzzled me.

Maybe they got nothing going on in their own lives and have to watch other peoples accomplishments or something?

Good job at insulting over 90% of your own country.

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millions upon millions of people

Billions*

10ch

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Good job at insulting over 90% of your own country.

Thanks. It wasn't hard

[twiddler]

Yeah, this always puzzled me.

Maybe they got nothing going on in their own lives and have to watch other peoples accomplishments or something?

You're my favorite MMO-C persona. Some guy who pretends he's rich and important on an MMO forum, of all places, insulting people for their leisurely activities because of there should be goals.

[JohnBrown1917]

Thanks. It wasn't hard

I really wonder why you continue to life here.

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You're my favorite MMO-C persona. Some guy who pretends he's rich and important on an MMO forum, of all places, insulting people for their leisurely activities because of there should be goals.

His type is very disliked here in the netherlands lol.
Maybe he needs to take it out on pointless internet forums?


But I agree its entertaining.

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You're my favorite MMO-C persona. Some guy who pretends he's rich and important on an MMO forum, of all places, insulting people for their leisurely activities because of there should be goals.

Thanks, I love you too

I'm not rich sadly. But can't complain.

And yeah, watching sports is the biggest waste of time in my personal opinion. Others might get something out of it though, but no idea what or why.

[Ryme]

Opinions: Sport is dull as fuck and on too long, younger demographics have shown an increasing tendency for on demand fast action for years now.

[Dug]

Traditional sports are so damn boring to watch so count me as one of those part of the decline. I'll watch UFC on occasion and the random basketball game here and there at someones house but I couldn't ever see myself sitting down in my own home to watch it.

Shits just so... same old same old. The football on today looks and sounds like the same shit I saw my dad watching when I was a child.

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I always found sports boring especially 'e-sports-

[Dendrek]

Nothing is free. Just because you don't see the direct cost of something up front doesn't make it free. If it was on ESPN, you have to have had a basic cable package of some kind to watch it. If it was streamed online, then you paid through watching ads and the cost of your internet subscription, etc.

I hate it when people say "oooh, this was free!" like "free" healthcare (paid for with obscenely high taxes on everyone) or "free" drinks (paid for by talking to a guy who bought them for you), etc. Get it through your heads: everything has a price of some kind. That is how it always has been and always will be.

How is that even relevant to the point? What exactly are you hoping to achieve with this rant? In a practical sense, what you just said is completely irrelevant to anyone who is actually being discussed in this article/thread. "Free's not free," who cares? Get over this need to lecture people on politics that you bring up stupid politics into a thread that has nothing to do with it.

[vetinari]

Kids play vidya instead of a sport in school, they don't develop a love for the sport, and therefore prefer vidya/netflix instead.

What a surprise.

[NED funded]

Thanks, I love you too

I'm not rich sadly. But can't complain.

And yeah, watching sports is the biggest waste of time in my personal opinion. Others might get something out of it though, but no idea what or why.

Watching it alone is boring as fuck, watch with a couple of friends and you'd understand why it's exciting.
OT: Really weird, I could have swear that football viewership was increasing.

[SirBeef]

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/art...ounger-viewers

Maybe this will drive cable companies to offer more fair deals.

Most people I know don't have a current subscription because they make you get like 130+ channels when you only really want a couple of them.

I worry about the health impacts though if more youth are focusing on unhealthy activities rather than sport.

I worked for Ameritech in the early 90s, it was Michigan Bell and is now part of AT&T, back then they were just a phone company but were looking into cable. They were proposing slim lined plans of 10 channels in addition to the local once that you could choose. You could then go up in size by 5 channels until you got the full packages. Premiums like HBO, were considered add-ons as well. That was 25 years ago. If they haven't caved into customer pressure they never will. Why offer fairer prices when the ship is sinking? It makes sense for customers, so you know it will not be done.