Only 2 more days until this board's version of the 72 Dolphins begins to pop the champagne once more

Are you comparing Frank to the only undefeated team in NFL history as an insult?

Are you comparing Frank to the only undefeated team in NFL history as an insult?

72 Dolphins also got higher TV ratings than the NBA

What was the genesis of this thread?

So it’s NFL roster moves v. out of town NBA talk - which is more interesting?

The Friday telecast aired entirely on ESPN2 to accommodate the NBA Playoffs and was the least-watched second night of the Draft on ESPN’s cable networks since the three-day format began in 2010.

Just as I suspected!


https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2024/0 ... l-network/

The second night of the NFL Draft was no match for last year, but still topped the day in sports viewing for Friday, April 26.

Friday’s second and third rounds of the NFL Draft averaged a combined 5.05 million viewers across ABC (2.69M), ESPN2 (1.57M) and NFL Network (793K), down 9% from last year (5.53M) but still the top sports audience of the day. Coverage averaged 5.06 million including ESPN Deportes (14K).

Despite competition from the NFL Draft, the NBA Playoffs benefited from a scheduling change that gave ESPN three standalone windows. Clippers-Mavericks Game 3 averaged 3.34 million viewers, up 47% from Celtics-Hawks a year ago (2.27M). Timberwolves-Suns followed with 2.70 million, up 20% from last year’s Nuggets-Timberwolves game (2.25M).

Clippers-Mavs on tonight. Any "OffSeason Football" which you'd find to be more "compelling" instead? Just Asking A Question

I just mowed my lawn - I suppose I could watch the grass grow.

Seriously though, these playoffs have been fun to watch so far.

Denver LA was fun. Denver Minnesota should be awesome.

I’m having a hard time finding the eastern series all that enjoyable.

What was the genesis of this thread?

"Now I'm not saying that people who turn off NBA games are doing so because there's a bunch of brothas on the screen, I'm not saying that, but...you know, it's right there for ya'."

"Speaking of that, this Jazz-Clippers series is a THING, man. Coming up after an update, we'll talk to Tony Jones about this series going back to Utah, he covers the Jazz for the Salt Lake Tribune. Right here on 670 The Score."

I’m having a hard time finding the eastern series all that enjoyable.

Denver LA was fun. Denver Minnesota should be awesome.

I’m having a hard time finding the eastern series all that enjoyable.

Precisely the reason why a telecast that involves a rich white man reading names at a podium gets higher TV ratings than NBA playoffs.

Denver LA was fun. Denver Minnesota should be awesome.

I’m having a hard time finding the eastern series all that enjoyable.

Whenever the argument is obviously stupid, then just simply make an attempt to "recalibrate" the argument. Won't work. this rip dude. Accept your L and move on

NBA Appears to Be on Track to Double Media-Rights Fee Intake

Michael Laughlin-USA TODAY Sports

As more NBA teams continue sealing their places in the second round of the playoffs, the league appears to be getting closer to a win of its own—securing its next set of media deals and a substantial rights fee increase in the process.

Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are currently paying the NBA rightly $2.7 billion combined annually to air games on ESPN and TNT, respectively. Nothing new has been officially agreed to or signed, but already, factoring in the reported values of potential deals on the table, the league can likely expect to at least double its intake. Disney is on track to renew for an average of roughly $2.6 billion per year, and NBC is prepared to bid $2.5 billion annually, according to The Wall Street Journal. WBD has the right to match a rival bid if it chooses, as does Disney.

Although no financial details of Amazon’s potential deal with the NBA have been reported, it’s safe to assume that the streamer would pay enough annually to get the league well over $5.4 billion, which would be double its current deals, and potentially closer to $6 billion, if not even more.

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Such an increase for the NBA would be impressive, given the growing disruption in the current sports media landscape.

Earlier this year, the College Football Playoff struck an extension with ESPN that will be worth $1.3 billion a year beginning in the 2026–27 season. While that is more than double the $608 million that the network has been paying, the new deal is for 11 postseason games as part of an expanded 12-team playoff. That means four more game broadcasts than the seven (three playoff, four other New Year’s Six bowl games) that were included in ESPN’s CFP package.

Last fall, NASCAR struck new media-rights deals, expanding from two partners for its flagship Cup Series to four, similar to the NBA’s seemingly going from two to at least three. The $1.1 billion NASCAR will bring in annually, starting next year, is a 40% increase over its current deals.

With cord-cutting continuing to challenge the entire media industry, the profitability of streaming still something of an open question, and most major U.S. sports rights locked up for the next several years, the NBA rights negotiation has been widely seen as something of a litmus test on the health of the

I keep thinking the televised sports industry is going to implode, but these fees keep increasing dramatically every single time they're up for negotiation. This can't be sustainable forever.