Average viewership for Red Sox games was down 54%, according to Brown, from 158,614 in 2019 to 72,515 this year. The opening night of Major League Baseball’s virus-shortened 2020 season set TV viewership records for Walt Disney Co’s ESPN sports channel, the network said on Friday. Of baseball’s other top ten markets, the first half viewership is a mixed bag. That includes 21 LPM Market Average, MLB on RSN data as of September 27, courtesy of Home Team Sports. In a season unlike any other, Major League Baseball saw viewership increase while ratings were down because of a lower number of households being tracked. The absence of live sports for a time only made their bonds stronger.”. Even recent NFL numbers seem to be down or mixed. This year, Nielsen 12/8/2020 2020 election Informations sur votre appareil et sur votre connexion Internet, y compris votre adresse IP, Navigation et recherche lors de l’utilisation des sites Web et applications Verizon Media. 'Boycott the MLB' crowd takes an L as Giants-Dodgers and Yankees-Nationals draw record TV ratings Eric Ting , SFGATE July 24, 2020 Updated: July 24, 2020 8:09 p.m. My work has been sourced for analysis and commentary in the NY Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Washington Times, CNN/Money, MarketWatch, Crain's Business NY, Crain's Detroit Business, Crain's Business Chicago, The Deal, the Rocky Mountain News, Fox News, New York Daily News, Sports Illustrated.com, the NY Sun, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Tampa Tribune, Toronto Globe and Mail, Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sports Review, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, St. Petersburg Times, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, San Jose Mercury News, the Oregonian, the Portland Business Journal, Sports Fantasy Monthly magazine, USA Today Sports Weekly, and more. The leading declines were by the Boston Red Sox on NESN (-54%), the Seattle Mariners (-36%), the Los Angeles Angels (-34%) and the Pittsburgh Pirates (-34%). In baseball, the 2020 ALCS and NLCS were down a combined 30% overall (least-watched ALCS on record), and the World Series on Fox was the least-watched in history, down 32% from the previous low. To add context, the Toronto Blue Jays, who air games on SportsNet in Canada, and our outside Nielsen tracking have provided viewership data. A ratings point represents 1% of the total television households in a given market showing overall interest, rather than total viewership. In that sense, Karp said the industry is viewing 2020 as a one-off and that the ratings for anything should not be compared to 2019. Vous pouvez modifier vos choix à tout moment dans vos paramètres de vie privée. Major League Baseball viewership ratings fell off after opening day as the league embarked on a social justice mission in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. It’s well documented that attendance at Major League Baseball games has been declining since 2012. Butterworth says the decline in baseball popularity might have to do with how we view the games. It is unclear if this is just an American phenomena. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. 2020 National Sportswriter Of The Year nominee. Game 1 … — With assistance by Brandon Kochkodin Published on October 13, 2020, 3:49 PM EDT Unsurprisingly given their market size, the Yankees and the Dodgers led the way in average viewers per game, followed by the Phillies, and Cubs. According to data … Viewership for Major League Baseball on regional sports networks were up for 2020. As noted, total television households dropped with the change in how Nielsen is capturing viewership, and with that, ratings dropped. With that, nearly every MLB RSN shows a ratings decline while viewership has gone up. If you want an example from this week, Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday drew 8.95 million viewers on Fox, the smallest World Series audience on record. While not factored into the Nielsen numbers because Canada is not tracked by the company, viewership in the country was exceptionally strong for 2020, according to SportsNet. Four million people, on average, watched the New York Yankees beat defending champions the Washington Nationals on Thursday in the first game of a season delayed by four months due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The love that fans have for their home teams is in their DNA and often passed down from generation to generation.