ABC's NBA ratings at an all time low

[King Harlem]

This is simple. There are way too many games available to watch. It waters down the need to watch the nationally televised games. That's the reason football will always be popular (and even they are getting greedy with these Thursday night games), because you basically have one day a week to watch that sport and one game on Monday.

Right now, here's the NBA weekly schedule:
All The Time: Your local team on whatever local sports channel.
Monday: NBA on TNT
Tuesday: nothing
Wednesday: NBA on ESPN
Thursday: NBA on TNT
Friday: NBA on ESPN
Saturday: NBA on ABC
Sunday: NBA on ABC

Who's watching all that and I love the NBA. But I have a life. That's way too much, of course your ratings are going to be down.

 

[#StarkSet]

All sports ratings are down. Cats are streaming heavy now. Most of my friends stream at least some of the time now.

The NBA especially will be fine.

That argument would work if every TV didn't have abc

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

NBA on ABC is garbage....

Because it's unnatural... NBC will always be the goat for the presentations alone...

My childhood. Grandmas house for Sunday dinner and NBA on NBC.

 

[Earnings]

"Too many stars, LeBron administration, NFL better"
DirecTV Now to Offer ABC, NBC Live Streams in 'Select Markets' | Multichannel

It's more than likely due to the rise in streaming and the fact ABC only allows live streaming in select markets. For instance, I won't be home at 3 and cant watch the Cavs/Pacers because ABC only allows On Demand show streaming for PS Vue.

 

[Darth Nubian]

The matchups just haven't been that compelling The game threads don't even do numbers and we have more than a passing interest in the games. Barring some complete fukkery, the finals is most likely going to be Cavs vs Warriors/Spurs. Not really any point in watching the games when you already know the outcome.

 

[FTBS]

This is simple. There are way too many games available to watch. It waters down the need to watch the nationally televised games. That's the reason football will always be popular (and even they are getting greedy with these Thursday night games), because you basically have one day a week to watch that sport and one game on Monday.

Right now, here's the NBA weekly schedule:
All The Time: Your local team on whatever local sports channel.
Monday: NBA on TNT
Tuesday: nothing
Wednesday: NBA on ESPN
Thursday: NBA on TNT
Friday: NBA on ESPN
Saturday: NBA on ABC
Sunday: NBA on ABC

Who's watching all that and I love the NBA. But I have a life. That's way too much, of course your ratings are going to be down.

That doesn't make sense. It's not like it's the same game with the same teams every night. The games on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday have nothing to do with the games on Saturday and Sunday (which is what these numbers are about). You put stars and compelling action on i.e. stop throwing big markets/historical powers out there that currently have neither and be more considerate of the squads you want to feature with the your scheduling and you will have matchups that people will want to watch.

 

[filial_piety]

I thought the televised weekday, and Saturday match ups were pretty good this year....there were a lot of Spurs and Warriors Vs whoever (cavs, celts thunder etc) games. ...I enjoyed it more than I have in the past few years

What I think kinda sucks are the Sunday line ups. I've probably skipped 90% of Sundays match ups this year.

 

[Trece]

Kobe wasn't drawing shyt post Jordan

Kobe kept competitive balance in the league at least up until he tore his achilles.

Bron has been a garbage torch bearer.


Seems like the people defending the NBA ratings are Bron stans that are embarrassed

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

The people don't like seeing free throw contests

 

[Trece]

My childhood. Grandmas house for Sunday dinner and NBA on NBC.

Bob Costas with the intro..

 

[letti cook]

SPURS/WARRIORS MISSING STARTERS
CLIPPERS/WARRIORS MISSING STARTERS
CAVS/BULLS MISSING STARTERS
CAVS/CLIPPERS MISSING STARTERS

AM I MISSING ANY?



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= me every single time ive tried to watch basketball this season..there's either a blowout or dudes resting

 

[DetroitEWarren]

Meanwhile, the NBA sets new attendance records. It's because people are going in person since the Andersons got tickets to the game.

The Anderson's got tickets to the game? How'd they get tickets

 

[jerniebert]

They need a consistent schedule on Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes I look for basketball on the weekends on ABC and to many times they aren't showing games. If it was like football and you knew when games were coming on you'd probably get more viewers.

 

[KingJay]

It's because of resting NBA was doin really well too until this happened

 

[dh86]

Nothing like Knicks and Lakers games being on TV all year long