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January 10, 2015After a weekend where the NFL dominated the TV ratings with playoff games, it’s nothing but more good TV news for the NFL. According to Greg Aiello, the NFL had 202 million fans tune in while they also made huge strides in prime-time.
In 2014, 202 million fans tuned in, @nfl games nearly tripled broadcast prime-time viewership & were 45 of 50 most-watched shows this fall.
— Greg Aiello (@gregaiello) January 9, 2015
The reason that it costs a lot of money for these networks to air the games is because they bring in ginormous audiences. But MAN, does it cost a lot of money. ESPN pays about $1.9 billion per year. Fox pays about $1.1 billion per year. CBS and NBC are almost another $2 billion per year combined. And with results like that indicating that huge number of eyeballs, it’s unlikely anyone’s complaining about the value proposition.
And this also comes in a year where it seems all we did was complain about primetime games. Remember all that conversation about how bad Thursday night football was? There was a five-game streak where the Thursday night games were all decided by 20 points or more.
This is also a year where the NFL was embroiled in the biggest most talked about scandals in the history of the sport with Ray Rice.
It didn’t matter. We tuned in and we tuned in bigger than ever it would seem.
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I’m hoping you are just using the phrase “trumped up” incorrectly when referring to Ray Rice.
trumped-up
adj.
Fradulently devised; fabricated
Thanks for the heads up. That’s not what I wanted to say.
I really hope someone else (anyone) outbids CBS.