The NBA is seeing its viewership plummet in the first half of the 2024-2025 season while the NFL enjoys some of its best ratings in the past decade.
As of last week, NBA ratings were down 17% across its main networks, ABC, ESPN, and TNT, according to CNBC Sport. The problem has become big enough for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to address it, but Silver seems positive that the negative viewership trend isn’t “a lack of interest in the game.”
The NFL, meanwhile, recorded its highest average of viewers per game (17.3 million) through the first 10 weeks of the season, Front Office Sports reported last month. That average doesn’t include a few games that were available exclusively services Peacock and ESPN+ or international games broadcast on NFL Network. The NFL is also seeing a 7% increase in viewership on streaming service Amazon Prime this year compared to last year.
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