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yallerdawg

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3. THIS is hitting everything.

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 2, 2018, 10:39 PM

Jan 2018

It’s the changing in consumption patterns. It’s cord cutters. It’s YouTube and Snapchat and Facebook. The reason for ratings decline isn’t something the NFL is doing or not doing. It’s something they can’t stop . . . unless they can somehow freeze time and stop technological advancements.

Ratings are down, but they are down across the board. Unless there was protests and kneeling on scripted broadcast programming that we missed somewhere, the NFL’s problems are about reaching millennials and cord cutters.

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Glad to see this mountain grammy Jan 2018 #1

evidently regular programming is pretty much junk if football can get higher ratings nt msongs Jan 2018 #2

THIS is hitting everything. yallerdawg Jan 2018 #3

This year's football season has been very difficult for me TlalocW Jan 2018 #4