“If ratings don’t improve materially, we see a potential headwind to domestic advertising revenues,” the investment bank’s analyst Omar Sheikh wrote of Fox on Thursday. In the past week, Credit Suisse lowered its price targets on both Fox and CBS stock, citing NFL ratings declines. “If ratings don’t improve materially, we see a potential headwind […]
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NFL Players Continue To Protest Police Brutality
Some NFL players continued to protest during the national anthem on Sunday, after President Trump repeatedly criticized the league for its handling of the demonstrations. Seven San Francisco 49ers kneeled during the anthem Sunday. Those players were safeties Eric Reid and Adrian Colbert, linebackers Dekoda Watson and Eli Harold, receiver Marquise Goodwin, defensive lineman Arik […]
NFL Contradicts Trump, Wont Make Players Stand For Anthem
‘Commentary this morning about the commissioner’s position on the anthem is not accurate,’ said a statement The NFL directly contradicted Donald Trump in a statement issued on Wednesday, dismissing the president’s claim that the league’s commissioner had demanded that players stand for the national anthem as “not accurate.” Trump, in response to an NFL statement released […]
VP Pence Leaves NFL Game After Players Kneel For Anthem
Vice President Mike Pence walked out on his home-state Indianapolis Colts Sunday when members of the opposing team kneeled for the national anthem, but a report that Colin Kaepernick, the player who started it all, will stand if given another shot in the NFL was quickly dialed back. “I left today’s Colts game because @POTUS and I […]
NFL Players Continue Protests Despite Trump’s Tweets
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is putting pro football players on notice for Week 4 of the NFL season: He won’t stand for it if they kneel in protest during the national anthem. At Sunday’s first game, in London, New Orleans Saints players, coaches and staff knelt before the start of the anthem but stood […]
NFL Ratings Actually Go Up As Protests Escalate
President Donald Trump wants you to think NFL ratings are down because some of its players kneel in protest during the national anthem: Ratings for NFL football are way down except before game starts, when people tune in to see whether or not our country will be disrespected! They aren’t. Not only are ratings for […]
NFL Ratings Continue To Fall As Player Protests Grow
On a day full of criticism from Donald Trump, political protests, linked arms, players taking a knee or not coming on the field at all during the national anthem, and renewed pleas for unity from the league, NBC and the NFL took a ratings hit on Sunday Night Football. In metered market numbers, the primetime […]
NFL Teams Skip Anthem Altogether In Response To President Trump
The Seahawks become the second NFL team on Sunday to remain in the locker room during the national anthem to protest social injustice. The team issued this statement ahead of their game against the Titans in Nashville: The Titans stayed in in the locker room too: No players on either team’s sideline for the national […]
Trump Tells Fans To Walk Out On NFL Over Anthem Protests
Trump waded into a simmering debate on sports and free speech after he appeared to withdraw an invitation for the Warriors to visit the White House, and said National Football League (NFL) owners should fire players who openly protest by taking a knee on the field. Trump’s remarks stirred an already thorny national conversation about […]
Number Of National Anthem Protesters Continues To Grow
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the pregame protest of racial oppression and inequality in the United States last season by sitting down during the national anthem before a preseason game, and then kneeling during the anthem in Week 1 and throughout the season. Kaepernick remains a free agent, but several NFL players […]
Police Unions To Boycott Cleveland Browns Games Due To Players Kneeling
Members of unions representing Cleveland police officers and paramedics have said they won’t hold a large U.S. flag during pregame ceremonies prior to next Sunday’s Cleveland Browns season opener after a group of Browns players knelt during the national anthem before a preseason game last month. Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, […]
Mayweather Stops UFC’s McGregor In Round 10
LAS VEGAS — In a moment of honest clarity following his 50th and final victory on Saturday night, Floyd Mayweather admitted something about the tail end of his career that most of his critics had been thinking all along. Mayweather (50-0, 27 KOs), who returned from a two-year retirement to defeat UFC lightweight champion Conor […]