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2021-02-10 -PC Follies
Super Bowl gets LOWEST viewership in almost 15 years, but that's not the worst part…
[Right Scoop] The Super Bowl ratings are in and they are a huge disappointment, getting the worst overall ratings in almost 15 years:
CNBC — Super Bowl LV attracted 96.4 million viewers for ViacomCBS on Sunday, the company announced Tuesday, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9. It’s the lowest watched Super Bowl since 2007, when the Indianapolis Colts played the Chicago Bears, another CBS broadcast. That game attracted 93.1 million viewers, according to Octagon’s media division data provided to CNBC.

Research firm Nielsen, which handles TV viewership data responded on Monday afternoon to inquires about the delay in releasing the information. In a statement to Deadline, a spokesperson said the metrics would include out of home (OOH) numbers. Those numbers represent TVs in places like bars and restaurants and augment viewership data for the NFL.

Even though the overall viewership totals were a disappointment, CBS did tout growth in internet streaming of the Super Bowl. The company said the stream averaged 5.7 million viewers per minute. The game streamed through CBS’s All Access service. Later this year, All Access will change to Paramount+, ViacomCBS’s new streaming service that is designed to take on leaders like Netflix and Disney+.
What we’re looking at is essentially two numbers. The TV ratings for the Superbowl were 91.6 million and the streamers were 5.7 million. And the total of those numbers, 96.4 million, include the OOH numbers described above.

Just to give you some idea of how bad this is, the ratings and viewership for the last 20 Super Bowls are below:
Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-10 07:26|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 "Super Bowl gets LOWEST viewership in almost 15 years"

Wonder what the ratings for Puppy Bowl were? :-D
Posted by Barbara 2021-02-10 08:42||   2021-02-10 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Superbowl is toast.
Roll Tide.
Posted by crazyhorse 2021-02-10 10:44||   2021-02-10 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Go DAWGS!
Posted by Beavis 2021-02-10 10:54||   2021-02-10 10:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Read a deal that number includes a padding estimate of if the bars/restaurants were open at normal (full) capacity.

And how many like myself laughed their ass off the whole demonstration. Like I said yesterday, seriously, there was a point where the WNBA number of fans' noise was disrupting the offense. Hell the streaker got the response, "What, somebody glue one of those cut-outs onto an RC car?"

Or the Toyota quick-cut "wash your hands. wear a mas. social distance." was followed by quoting the "Its a small world" parody from Shrek, with a shuttup you make cars.

Just MST3K'd the whole showtune. What is this, a Kylie Minogue (video Can't Keep You Out Of My Mind) parody? Nah, this group is guess is called The Weekend. Ah, so they are all working for The Weekend. (eveyone dead-panning now) So they are selling you a new romance? Yes, they need a second chance.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-02-10 11:14||   2021-02-10 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 What's a super bowl?
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2021-02-10 12:13||   2021-02-10 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Not even Super Bowl Commercials can save the Super Bowl [movement].

Hmmm... just watched some of the 'top 10 superbowl commericals' and, well, they suck too...
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-02-10 12:35||   2021-02-10 12:35|| Front Page Top

#7 ^^What crazyhorse said^^
Posted by Jay-Dubya  2021-02-10 12:38|| technochitlins.com  2021-02-10 12:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Everything was a woke cringefest
Posted by DarthVader 2021-02-10 12:53||   2021-02-10 12:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Haven't seen one in years. Don't give a rat turd the National Felons League. I'll start watching if they issue the teams weapons and last team to have a living member wins.

Don't really care about any pro sports and college is fast approaching the same level.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-02-10 13:46||   2021-02-10 13:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Is that 96.4m that WATCHED or number of TV's displayed in public area with an estimated of viewers (restaurants, airports and etc..) being presented?

Because, when these MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR over paid Sports figures 1st started taking a knee to protest our great country as racially restraining... where they became $$Millionaires... while being so called "restrained".

I was surprised at 1st then figured it was just 4th rate QB and the Socialist Democrats stirring up Race for a contract renewal and the Elections as usual.

Then the Team owners and the Media joined them while both tend to hire, contract or use them to sell products (Restrained??) with ALL sides making $$$$$.

I said" F____ this S____ to Hell and quit watching each and every sport league as they started disrespecting the very citizens of this country that have bled, died for their Freedom, civil rights and spent well over $5 Trillion in 55 years trying to help. All at a cost of many many so called WHITE PRIVILEGED Lives.

BTW: In all honesty I could not have told you who beat who until I noticed it today in this article I am commenting on now. Base on the score alone I sure did not miss much.
Posted by NN2N1  2021-02-10 13:51||   2021-02-10 13:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Crowd noise was a soundtrack.
Posted by Theresing Peacock5039 2021-02-10 14:12||   2021-02-10 14:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Crowds were CGI....
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-02-10 14:48||   2021-02-10 14:48|| Front Page Top

#13 For $100, you could have your image printed on a paper doll and placed in the seating. There were actually people, but between the camera angles and lack of humans moving it was neigh impossible to see them.

Not saying there couldn't have been some CGI going on, like when they reanimated King and Lombardi to sell shit, but romo and the tin man were bragging about the paper doll people.

Perhaps I should have been a bit easier on Jeepy Bruce yesterday. Apparently he did just make a new record last November and is a farmer.

(DUI, and grows enough produce on his $million+ estate to avoid 98% taxes)
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-02-10 15:27||   2021-02-10 15:27|| Front Page Top

#14 /\ Biden voters no doubt.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-10 15:28||   2021-02-10 15:28|| Front Page Top

#15 For some reason I've reminded of a joke I've heard as a kid (in old Sov U). A phys ed teacher is tasked with organizing a football (soccer) & an American football teams for his school. He takes the candidates to a forest and tells them to run. These who dodge between the trees, go for the soccer team.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-10 15:29||   2021-02-10 15:29|| Front Page Top

#16 /\ I didn't get the joke, but in keeping with Former Soviet Union humor, I laughed anyway :-)
Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-10 15:35||   2021-02-10 15:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Afrikaners
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-10 15:37||   2021-02-10 15:37|| Front Page Top

#18 At risk of gulag, does it mean on the way back from trials the soccer players take the new road made by football team?
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-02-10 15:39||   2021-02-10 15:39|| Front Page Top

#19 I didn't at first either (and also laughed anyway...). But I think it has to do with in American Football players would attempt to tackle the trees... In soccer they don't restart the game every few seconds for a 'down'.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-02-10 15:42||   2021-02-10 15:42|| Front Page Top

#20 ^Bingo, CF
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-10 16:17||   2021-02-10 16:17|| Front Page Top

#21 /\ In soccer they don't restart the game every few seconds for a 'down'.

Cognitive recovery ?


Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-10 16:20||   2021-02-10 16:20|| Front Page Top

#22 And while they are out there, arguing who handles wood better, the rugby players are with the cheerleaders.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-02-10 16:22||   2021-02-10 16:22|| Front Page Top

#23 Ha correct!
Posted by Rightwing 2021-02-10 16:47||   2021-02-10 16:47|| Front Page Top

#24 #22 Watched Ireland Wales, 6 nations match last week an hour forty minutes before a Super Bowl game that takes 3 hours
Posted by Beavis 2021-02-10 17:03||   2021-02-10 17:03|| Front Page Top

#25 Well 3 hours lets you put in a lot of $5M 30second commerical spots.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-02-10 18:08||   2021-02-10 18:08|| Front Page Top

#26 The only person Tyreek Hill beat on Sunday was his kid.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-02-10 18:17||   2021-02-10 18:17|| Front Page Top

#27 ^ Oh SNAP!
Posted by Frank G 2021-02-10 21:03||   2021-02-10 21:03|| Front Page Top

#28 When "supremacist" sports fans attack:
"Where's the representation we lack?"
"True, they don't 'look like you...'"
What's a racist to do?
Will the crackers turn out for trans Black?
Posted by Bertie Bluetooth5899 2021-02-10 21:09||   2021-02-10 21:09|| Front Page Top

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