What would you wager are the world's television ratings for the NBA in recent years?

[72-10]

Here is my guess at the regular viewership of the NBA in a modern world

1991-92 - 2.12 million
1992-93 - 3.8 mil
1993-94 - 4 mil
1994-95 - 4
1995-96 - 3
1996-97 - 3
1997-98 - 2.8
1998-99 - 2.8
1999-00 - 2.4
2000-01 - 2.3
2001-02 - 2.2
2002-03 - 2.1
2003-04 - 2.0
2004-05 - 1.9
2005-06 - 1.8
2006-07 - 1.7
2007-08 - 1.6
2008-09 - 1.5
2009-10 - 1.3
2010-11 - 1.2
2011-12 - 1.1
2012-13 - 1.0 million
2013-14 - 0.9 mil
2014-15 - 0.9
2015-16 - 0.9
2016-17 - 0.8
2017-18 - 0.8
2018-19 - 0.6
2019-20 - 0.3 million

That's what I'd say.

[Airupthere]

Would be nice to see that as a plot. Visual trjaectories tell the story much better. Given how a lot despise 90s basketball, it still seems to have the highest ratings.

[72-10]

Would be nice to see that as a plot. Visual trjaectories tell the story much better. Given how a lot despise 90s basketball, it still seems to have the highest ratings.

Yeah, this is despite far fewer television sets and no access to the NBA outside North America in the mid-90-s, about 1 out of every 700 people in the world regularly viewed the NBA, and now as a global, 1 out of about every 23,000 people in the world regularly view the NBA.

[Airupthere]

Yeah, this is despite far fewer television sets and no access to the NBA outside North America in the mid-90-s, about 1 out of every 750 people in the world regularly viewed the NBA, and now as a global, 1 out of about every 23,000 people in the world regularly view the NBA.

The drop is quite significant even with kobe still active in the late 2000s. This is despite the effort to make the game more “exciting” by opening up the offense.

[fsvr54]

TV doesnt even matter, id bet about 40% of the viewerbase uses streams.

[Hey Yo]

TV doesnt even matter, id bet about 40% of the viewerbase uses streams.

eot/

[ZionDunks]

TV doesnt even matter, id bet about 40% of the viewerbase uses streams.

Denial island. Why stream instead of just watching it

[72-10]

eot/

What does eot mean?

[72-10]

TV doesnt even matter, id bet about 40% of the viewerbase uses streams.

I'm not sure about that - the world wide web doesn't extend very much outside North America, Europe and Mexico.

[Hey Yo]

Denial island. Why stream instead of just watching it

More and more people have cut the cable cord over the years.

[Axe]

eot/
:milton

[Airupthere]

TV doesnt even matter, id bet about 40% of the viewerbase uses streams.

Thats nice but the nfl has enjoyed consistently high viewership except for last year, which still wasnt that bog of a drop.

[Bronbron23]

TV doesnt even matter, id bet about 40% of the viewerbase uses streams.

This is a common excuse that dosn't make any sense. Nba ratings have been dropping since mj left even though cable subscriptions continued to climb throughout the 2000's. Yeah streaming services don't help but it's not the main reason why ratings are down.

[Bronbron23]

More and more people have cut the cable cord over the years.

Nope. Not the reason why. As tv subscriptions went up in the 2000's nba ratings went down. It has very little to do with Streaming services

[Hey Yo]

Thats nice but the nfl has enjoyed consistently high viewership except for last year, which still wasnt that bog of a drop.

Most NFL games can be watched with just an antenna. NBA is mostly seen on your local cable channel, ESPN, TNT and NBAtv

[sundizz]

Why do i bother responding. I dunno but i always do.

NBA is more poplar now than it ever has been. It’s available in many more countries and with many more viewing options. A better representative of interest is total sales of NBA merchandise and total revenue it brings in from tv agreements. It’s way more than what it used to be.

Why would ratings really matter when most people can’t sit and watch a full game nowadays. That’s not to say they don’t like the NBA - that’s just the world we live in. Casual fans are more apt to tweet something or watch a short clip and catch the occasional game.

[bison]

TV ratings has been an outmoded gauge of popularity for ages now.

[Bronbron23]

Why do i bother responding. I dunno but i always do.

NBA is more poplar now than it ever has been. It’s available in many more countries and with many more viewing options. A better representative of interest is total sales of NBA merchandise and total revenue it brings in from tv agreements. It’s way more than what it used to be.

Why would ratings really matter when most people can’t sit and watch a full game nowadays. That’s not to say they don’t like the NBA - that’s just the world we live in. Casual fans are more apt to tweet something or watch a short clip and catch the occasional game.

Not sure sales and tv revenue is a good indicator. Inflation from the 90's to now is insane. If nba revenue was 8 billion last year that be the equivalent to a much lower number in the 90's.

And the argument isn't popularity it's viewership and viewership is definitely way down. Streaming has very little to with why people watch less because as tv subscribers went up after mj's retirement nba ratings went way down and that was well before Streaming because popular.

[fsvr54]

Denial island. Why stream instead of just watching it

Because I don't pay for cable and streaming is free.

Also a lot of people just watch the 10 minute game highlights on youtube, which are very useful I might add.

[SATAN]

TV doesnt even matter, id bet about 40% of the viewerbase uses streams.

Yes.

[Bronbron23]

Yes.

No. So what's the explanation to why tv cable subscribers went way up after the 90's while viewership went way down? It's been trending down ever since. Your Streaming theory literally makes no sense. The theory is more cable viewership equals more nba tv ratings and less cable viewership equals less tv ratings. This has already been debunked. I don't know why yall keep trying to fall back on it.

[SATAN]

No. So what's the explanation to why tv cable subscribers went way up after the 90's while viewership went way down? It's been trending down ever since. Your Streaming theory literally makes no sense. The theory is more cable viewership equals more nba tv ratings and less cable viewership equals less tv ratings. This has already been debunked. I don't know why yall keep trying to fall back on it.

Because you are wrong.

[LAL]

Because you are wrong.

Why do you always post like a disrespectful woman?

[SATAN]

**** off.

[Bronbron23]

Because you are wrong.

Bruh it's facts. Just look at the numbers. Subscribers went up as nba ratings went down. So the data os wrong is what your saying? It's all a big conspiracy:facepalm

[FKAri]

I'm not sure about that - the world wide web doesn't extend very much outside North America, Europe and Mexico.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/u274/JoeCool-23/2vshkc2.gif

[Axe]

Why do you always post like a disrespectful woman?
:roll:

[ZionDunks]

TV ratings has been an outmoded gauge of popularity for ages now.

Yeah? So my 20 to two dozen friends I grew up with who have had enough Of the NBA’s politics and are done with the sport because of it are probably the only people who aren’t watching anymore for that reason then. Just a coincidence.

[SATAN]

Sound like casuals...

[Bronbron23]

Yeah? So my 20 to two dozen friends I grew up with who have had enough Of the NBA’s politics and are done with the sport because of it are probably the only people who aren’t watching anymore for that reason then. Just a coincidence.

This is definitely a factor but only a small one. Nba tv ratings have been at a steady decline before all the blm and political shit.

[Spurs m8]

Jordan was a worldwide religion

A large portion of the world - outside of the US - wouldn't even know who LeBron is...let alone care enough to watch his ugly ball

[welfarefan]

Jordan was a worldwide religion

A large portion of the world - outside of the US - wouldn't even know who LeBron is...let alone care enough to watch his ugly ball

Australians like us would never have 14,000 posts dedicated to Lebron hahahahahaha

[72-10]

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/u274/JoeCool-23/2vshkc2.gif

a poor choice of words on my part, perhaps

the web exists throughout the world in various spots, but it's only a substantially unified network of computers in North America, Mexico, Australia and Oceania, and Europe because there's difficulties with expanding the tech and spec to other parts of the world

I'm not sure that any language barrier enters into the equation, but geographic features are certainly one of the factors

[Airupthere]

Australians like us would never have 14,000 posts dedicated to Lebron hahahahahaha

:lebroncry:

[SpaceJam]

Australians like us would never have 14,000 posts dedicated to Lebron hahahahahaha

:oldlol:

[FKAri]

Would be nice to see that as a plot. Visual trjaectories tell the story much better. Given how a lot despise 90s basketball, it still seems to have the highest ratings.

OP didn't post factual numbers :oldlol:


a poor choice of words on my part, perhaps

the web exists throughout the world in various spots, but it's only a substantially unified network of computers in North America, Mexico, Australia and Oceania, and Europe because there's difficulties with expanding the tech and spec to other parts of the world

I'm not sure that any language barrier enters into the equation, but geographic features are certainly one of the factors

Completely false. The internet is huge all over Asia. Ever since smartphones, even the poor have internet access. South Korea alone is probably more interconnected than any country in Europe.