Slowly but surely: ESPN Q2 lowest rating in 7 years, NBCSN up 17%

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ESPN Q2 Viewership Drops Sharply, While NBC Sports Network Sees Audience Gains - SportsBusiness Daily | SportsBusiness Journal | SportsBusiness Daily Global

24 HOURS IN DAY: On a total day basis, ESPN also saw the sharpest drop among cable sports nets. The net averaged 715,000 viewers on a 24-hour basis in Q2, down 20% and the lowest mark for the net since it averaged 690,000 viewers in ’07. While Golf Channel posted a slight decline in primetime viewership -- when it primarily runs re-airs of events -- the net’s total-day audience was up 8% and marked the best Q2 audience in Golf Channel history. The net was fueled by increased tourney viewership, as well as its most-viewed week during a U.S. Open on the East Coast. NBCSN saw the biggest jump among sports nets and also posted its most-viewed non-Olympic quarter ever.

ESPN primetime numbers down big from last year, overall numbers are down for ESPN while NBCSN is just starting to pick up steam. And Fox Sports 1 about to open in a month, that'll hurt ESPN's numbers further.

Could we be seeing the beginning of the end?

 

[ThugLife]

I hope so

 

[Jerz-2]

Could we be seeing the beginning of the end?

Nah, I think Mickey got too much of a stranglehold on the sports industry because of the huge head start.

But hopefully this will continue and slowly humble them fukks, especially when Fox Sports 1 kicks in.

I expect Fox Sports 1 to show WAAAAAAY more college football and basketball than ESPN ever will....that alone is a win right there for me.

 

[TheNig]

This is a win for fans. More variety. Disney can't own every cotdamn thing

 

[FreshFromATL]

The cycle will be complete once the NBA goes back to NBC

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Thats why there bringing back Olbermann

 

[concise]

 

[tremonthustler1]

The cycle will be complete once the NBA goes back to NBC

Roundball Rock is not coming back.

 

[gho3st]

you niccas are happy about this?? ESPN hires more black people than any of these so called other sports networks and you want them to fail??

 

[AVXL]

The competition is good...it'll force ESPN to stop bullshytting us with Jeremy Lin/Tebow/Puig flavor of the month stories & actually focus on making & producing compelling sports television. I don't hate ESPN as much as some of you claim b/c they filled a void by themselves for a long time...they set this current market & now Fox, NBC & others are reacting.

As viewers were gonna have access to some of the best sports television ever seen, sit back & brehs

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

wheres cbs sports network?

 

[Da King]

Competition in anything is good, look what we got in sports without it? E!SPN no better then TMZ

 

[tremonthustler1]

you niccas are happy about this?? ESPN hires more black people than any of these so called other sports networks and you want them to fail??

they don't want ESPN to fail, which is why despite the fact that more are tuning into the NBCSN, very few, if any in this forum account for that increase.

People just want ESPN the way it used to be instead of hoping something new replaces it. Change is feared.

 

[The War Report]

MLB Network

 

[Kings County]

cause theres no bball and football on they'll be back