NFL television ratings climbing through first quarter of 2021 season. After seeing its viewership drop during the 2020 season, the National Football League is faring much better this fall. Since the regular season began, ratings and viewership are skyrocketing across all major networks entering Week 5.
Subsequently, are NFL 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. The Dallas Cowboys accounted for five of the top 10 ratings.
Also to know is, is football dying in America?
Despite remaining America’s most popular sport, football is struggling. Over the last decade, high school tackle football participation has fallen by about 10% nationwide. It’s not just that fewer kids are playing. The racial makeup of the game is shifting, too.
Is baseball becoming less popular?
Just 11% of adults listed baseball as their favorite sport to watch in a 2021 Washington Post poll. That put it well behind football (34%) and tied with basketball for the second favorite sport. Soccer and “something else” (e.g. esports/competitive video gaming) were closely behind at 7%.
Are NBA ratings down?
But the NBA is decidedly not more popular than ever by any means. To the contrary, regular-season ratings in 2020-21 were down 25% compared with the last uninterrupted season in 2018-19.
How low are the NFL ratings this year?
Between its ABC, ESPN and NFL Network broadcasts, the first round was watched by 10.03 million people, a number that is good for most things, just not the NFL. The number was down 2.5 million viewers from last season and more than 5 million from the record-setting 2020 draft.
Why is NFL attendance down?
The uptick ends a three-year decline for the NFL, even though lingering pandemic concerns and regulations have held down attendance in many sports. The rebound made up for losses from ’18 to ’19, which had been a 16-year low, but the per-game average remains 3.6% off its ’16 high-water mark.