Why have TV ratings for the world series gone down in the past 5 yrs.?

Question

Give me your opinion.

Answer 1

Could it just possibly be because I'm not the only person that dislikes Fox, news and sports?
Also, what teams have been playing? The very popular teams, the ones with fans all over the country, haven't been in the series.

Answer 2

Definitely the fact that the large market teams have not been in it the last few years has hurt. It also doesn't help that the games start so late - I'm in Chicago and have a tough time staying up to the end of games, so I can't imagine living on the East coast and staying up past midnight to watch the end. I think too that interest in baseball is declining overall. There are a lot more sports on TV now, what with ESPN and other sports networks. Also, I think that baseball has, like so many things in our lives, been victim to the short attention span Americans seem to have now - why watch a whole game when you can get the highlights on Sportscenter ? For most fans, the game has become nothing but home runs and diving catches. Baseball needs to do a better job of educating its' fans so that they can appreciate the finer points of the game, like a well executed sacrifice bunt or a man hitting to the right side to move a runner to 3rd. Also, they should probably try to play at least the weekend games during the World Series earlier in the day so that the younger fans can actually see the whole game.

Answer 3

Have they? Where is your citation?

Anyway...
1. continuously increasing market fragmentation -- people have ever more entertainment options.

2. no Yankees since 2003. No Mets (last: 2000), Dodgers (1988), Angels (2002), Cubs (um... 1945). Boston did show up, for a businesslike, four-game sweep. The White Sox were there, but it was another four-game sweep and they've never captivated the midwest like the Cubbies have. Look, no matchup pulls in the ratings like Yankees-Dodgers, and baseball has to endure with whichever teams get there.

3. worth noting -- Fox's production sucks. REALLY sucks. Baseball isn't supposed to be hip or k00L or rad or whatever the marketing dweebs think the overhyped 18-to-35 demographic wants. It is BASEBALL. Produced well, it sells itself. Fox does not produce it well, and evidently doesn't want to try. (I didn't even mention how Fox OVERLOADS the postseason games with ads; one of two factors in game timing it really can control, it chooses to abuse. The other factor is starting time, which is always later than it needs to be. (Pregame festivities, other than before Game 1, should be minimal.) And if ratings do tank -- so what? Fox deserves to suffer.)

4. short series. 2006 -- five games. 2005 & 2004 -- four-game sweeps. 2003 -- six games, which is the minimum that teevee really wants. 2002 was a seven-game barnburner as well as The Barry Show!, and 2001 was a knock-down, drag-out battleground (with the Yankees in it). Those two were great Series; the four since, well, not bad, but not nearly so captivating, not even Boston taking down The Curse.

Some of these things will change -- we could get a seven-game stunner this year, who knows? Others will not -- media fragmentation will continue, as will Fox's disinterest in improving its own suckage.

Answer 4

The TV ratings will always be directly proportionate to the teams that are playing. Red Sox vs Mets, Yankees vs Dodgers, and a few other combinations would put the ratings over the top. It's the casual fan that turns on the game that shoves the rating up and there are just a select few teams that most would tune in to watch.

Answer 5

Why would a Kansas City Royals fan for example want to watch a World Series game between big market teams knowing they are the reason they haven't won anything in more than 20 years?

Answer 6

Same dam players in it every year that's what I don't get or one team piratically filling the entire rooster. This game has become more of a popularity contest not a game of the best skilled players. With all the steroid scandal it seem they elected Barry Bond to participate:1.) cause its in his home town and, 2.) to have people watch to see how everyone reacted to him. I guess anything for rating. Quick idea let each team nominate 1 or 2 players to the all-star team new face maybe better talent like little league.

Answer 7

They care because of the fact rankings influence how television covers the sport. case in point, television networks in trouble-free terms care approximately rankings in best time, consequently, not in trouble-free terms are the video games all at night, yet they start ridiculously previous due. in the event that all of them started at 7PM eastern time human beings could not watch a game they neglected the start of. as a result, we get a international sequence like final 300 and sixty 5 days the place video games ended after night in a ineffective sequence first of all. i could desire for decrease rated video games ini the desire that the networks provide up masking the sequence and perchance the video games can start up at a lifestyles like time and, God forbid, perchance a game or 2 for the time of the day.

Answer 8

Because the games are so long, go 15 or more innings and make late weeknights for people who have to actually WORK the next day. And besides, baseball is so boring, I would rather watch flies die in a bug zapper than watch baseball.

Answer 9

Baseballs a dying sport, and people would rather watch something else.

Answer 10

cause It's still important for Directors to know what people think about there movies