{"id":367100,"date":"2020-10-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=367100"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:56:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:56:58","slug":"nba-finals-game-one-registers-lowest-tv-ratings-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/10\/02\/nba-finals-game-one-registers-lowest-tv-ratings-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Finals Game One Registers Lowest TV Ratings Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: &#8220;Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Los Angles Lakers and Miami Heat brought in 7.4 million viewers to ABC, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The game was the lowest-rated NBA Finals game since &#8230; 1994.&#8221; Now, 1994 is when total viewers began to be regularly recorded, so it\u2019s not that something happened in 1994 that made \u2019em really bad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-367127\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-100220-NBA-Blavk-Lives-Matter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-100220-NBA-Blavk-Lives-Matter.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-100220-NBA-Blavk-Lives-Matter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/APP-100220-NBA-Blavk-Lives-Matter-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>That\u2019s when they first started tabulating total viewers. &#8220;That number is down 45% from last year\u2019s Game 1 between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors, which had 13.5 million viewers. This is the fourth straight year that Game 1 viewership has gone down compared to the previous season.&#8221; It\u2019s the lowest viewership in recorded history.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think that is? Basketball\u2019s basketball. The Lakers are the Lakers. LeBron James is LeBron James. The star players are the star players. You like the NBA; you like the NBA. You like the Finals. No! People are tuning out in droves. I wonder why? What could have happened? Anybody got any ideas? I wonder what it could be.<\/p>\n<p>Very strange, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: People are tuning out in droves. I wonder why? What could have happened? 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