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How long will the XFL Survive

The XFL’s ratings fell again in Week 3. After a 34 percent drop in average audience from Week 1 to Week 2, there was a further 23 percent drop from Week 2 to Week 3. Overall, the Week 3 average audience was just 52 percent of the Week 1 audience.
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https://awfulannouncing.com/xfl/xfl-sees-further-double-digit-drops-in-viewership-week-3.html

The XFL also appears to be losing some ground relative to other sports. As per Mitch Metcalf of Showbuzz Daily, Week 1 saw the best-drawing XFL game beat all sports that week in viewership except for Sunday golf coverage, and three of the four XFL games beat everything in the 18-49 demo. In Week 2, the best-drawing XFL game was behind NASCAR Daytona 500 coverage, the NBA All-Star Game, the NBA All-Star Saturday Night event, Sunday golf coverage, and WWE Smackdown in viewership, and behind NASCAR, three NBA events, and Smackdown in the demo. In Week 3, the best-drawing XFL game was behind two different NASCAR races, a regular-season NBA game, Sunday golf, and Smackdown in viewership, and it barely beat the Kansas-Baylor college basketball game (and the two XFL games on cable trailed Kansas-Baylor). That best XFL game trailed all of those properties that beat it in viewership (except for golf) in the demo as well.
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Already an advocacy group is calling for the March Madness games be played without fans due to Coronavirus concerns. If this happened and was extended to other sports, NBA and XFL, that could affect ratings. If the country starts to "Self Quarantine" as hot spots develop across the country. It will be interesting how Coronavirus will affect sports in the USA, and viewership. Could we see sports teams playing in empty arenas with TV coverage the only way to see the game.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/advoca...ns-due-to-coronavirus-concerns-191719807.html
 
Still too early, but planning needs to take place. I could see a NCAA tournement without fans, but that would be the last resort. I think there is much to play out before making such harsh decisions.
 
The slide continues.
https://awfulannouncing.com/xfl/xfl-viewership-falls-once-again-in-week-4.html
In ShowBuzz Daily’s weekly compendium of sports TV viewership, the four XFL games (airing on Fox, ABC, FS1, and ESPN2) are listed as drawing an average of 1.376 million viewers. The most-watched game was Saturday’s Seattle-St. Louis tilt on Fox, while the the least watched was the Sunday evening game (DC-Tampa Bay) on ESPN2.

Also notably, this was the first week in which none of the four XFL games drew even two million viewers. Last week, just the Dallas-Seattle game on Fox broke two million. This week, the top game drew 1.802 million viewers.

XFL viewership has now sunk by more than 50% since Week 1, with the caveat that three of those four Week 1 games were on broadcast TV (compared to two in Weeks 3 and 4) and one of the cable games was bumped to ESPN2 this week.
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history is repeating itself, the ratimg are sliding cause in the opening weeks, people tune in to see what it was all about, now that we are a few weeks in, we now know about it and people are not into it. this is destin to die a bad death.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
history is repeating itself, the ratimg are sliding cause in the opening weeks, people tune in to see what it was all about, now that we are a few weeks in, we now know about it and people are not into it. this is destin to die a bad death.
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Too bad. It's really pretty good football, but it's tough to work up an interest in a brand new league from the get-go, whether you have a team in your area or not. I'm still not convinced that we need another professional football league in the spring and/or summer, any more than we need college football at that time of year. Unless the networks are willing to give the XFL four or five seasons to build a following -- a la the AFL -- this could be the league's first and only year. I know their sports divisions are racking their brains to find something people will watch in the spring or summer besides basketball and hockey playoffs, March Madness and their local MLB teams' games (which aren't network fare), but it may be time for them to consider that battle lost and move on.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
history is repeating itself, the ratimg are sliding cause in the opening weeks, people tune in to see what it was all about, now that we are a few weeks in, we now know about it and people are not into it. this is destin to die a bad death.
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The problem here is that football's median age is around 50 as we seen in other research when College Football and the NFL showed that in the past few years.
 
ABC aired Overwatch League matches last March.
 
Now that we have 4 weeks of ratings, it's pretty obvious this is far more popular than last year's under-funded fraud the AAF.
As expected, the ratings have fallen since the first week, but all the games have had more than a million viewers. The broadcast games are higher rated and quite competitive with other sports offerings. The play is getting better in the XFL. The TV broadcasts are fun to watch. I love the access to the coaches, players, and refs during the game.

I am quite sure we'll see the league around next year and on TV. The networks have to be very happy with these numbers, particularly since they are paying nothing more than production costs for the games.
 
We'll see how well the XFL fares against a lot of top college basketball games on their last regular-season weekend.
 
Huge black eye for the XFL over the way they completely botched the end of the Seattle Dragons-Houston Roughnecks game yesterday. There should have been :03 left on the clock after Roughnecks QB P.J. Walker took a 4th down kneel on his own 20, but the officials let the clock run out, and refused to rectify the situation. Seattle trailed by nine, and a TD on a last play plus a three-point conversion would have sent the game into overtime. Ironically it had been a very well officiated game up to that point. This is the sort of thing that can cost them fans of the aggrieved team.

I'm in Houston, and while I was glad to see the Roughnecks win, I also agree that Seattle got screwed.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Huge black eye for the XFL over the way they completely botched the end of the Seattle Dragons-Houston Roughnecks game yesterday. There should have been :03 left on the clock after Roughnecks QB P.J. Walker took a 4th down kneel on his own 20, but the officials let the clock run out, and refused to rectify the situation. Seattle trailed by nine, and a TD on a last play plus a three-point conversion would have sent the game into overtime. Ironically it had been a very well officiated game up to that point. This is the sort of thing that can cost them fans of the aggrieved team.

I'm in Houston, and while I was glad to see the Roughnecks win, I also agree that Seattle got screwed.
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that's part of the stigma that XFL had in it's original 2001 run and this current run, and that stigma is, having football contest be as predetermined as a WWE Wrestling match. that's why the XFL flopped the first time, cause fans thought it was too pro wrestling for football.
 
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