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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
https://www.google.ca/amp/amp.awfula...iewership.html
The NHL’s viewership struggles are continuing into 2025.
After the league got off to a poor start to the season, seeing a steep 39% year-over-year decline in Opening Night viewership, then drawing a record-low audience for the Winter Classic a few months later, the NHL is putting up some truly dreadful numbers
ESPN has regularly been drawing nearly a million viewers recently for a brand new property like TGL. Even Thursday’s East-West Shrine Bowl on NFL Network (a 25-0 thumping) outdrew the NHL on ESPN by about 10,000 viewers.
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The fact that the ABC national broadcasts seem to do alright, albeit there are not many, suggests maybe ESPN and TNT may be part of the issue. ESPN in particular, does not promote hockey that much. You have to scroll pretty far down the home page before it gets into the NHL and even then, the coverage is weak.