[Matata]

MLB and NBA are surprisingly down in ratings, I would have thought all pro sports ratings would be up: https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/202...y-cup-mlb-fox/

The first full week of the NBA season restart averaged 1.56 million viewers across ESPN, ABC and TNT, down 4% from the league’s pre-hiatus average (1.62M).

Regional Major League Baseball on FOX (mostly Cubs-Royals) averaged 1.49 million viewers Thursday night, per John Ourand of Sports Business Journal — the network’s least-watched MLB window since September 2018 (mostly Giants-Cardinals: 1.21M) and its least-watched in primetime since Rays-Yankees opposite the Olympics in 2016, Alex Rodriguez’ final game (1.02M).
The news was not much better on ESPN, which averaged 393,000 viewers for Mets-Nationals, 298,000 for Angels-Mariners and 249,000 for Pirates-Twins on Tuesday. Only one game on the network all of last season averaged fewer than 395,000 (9/25/19 A’s-Angels: 368K).