The viewership and the revenues, those are the key factors. If they're getting 10% coverage but 5% viewership, they need to lower coverage. If they're getting 15% revenues, they're being overpaid. (and vice-versas)
If the coverage is 10%, it's because the audience is <1%. You can't force people to cover shit nobody is watching without investing capital you will never see back. Women's sports will never be interesting enough without exploiting their sexuality- TITS or GTFO.
The four-game Sky-Mercury WNBA Finals averaged 548,000 viewers across ABC, ESPN and ESPN2, marking the largest audience for the event since the five-game Lynx-Sparks series in 2017 (559K).
Sunday’s Taylor (Mich.)-Hamilton (Ohio) Little League World Series championship game averaged a 1.6 rating and 2.78 million viewers on ABC, down from both equivalent games in 2019 — the World Championship (River Ridge, La.-Curacao: 1.9, 3.02M) and U.S. Championship (River Ridge-Wailuku, Hi.: 1.9, 2.93M). There was no World Championship this year as international teams were barred from competition.
College championships get pretty decent viewership. If there's a gambling culture that grows around it, I could see a little league series getting views.
Beach volleyball is entertaining.
No one cares about the media coverage.
The viewership and the revenues, those are the key factors. If they're getting 10% coverage but 5% viewership, they need to lower coverage. If they're getting 15% revenues, they're being overpaid. (and vice-versas)
I’ve never seen better real world proof meritocracy exists. Of course people don’t care to watch the equivalent of middle school boys playing a sport.
Middle school boys’ sports draw bigger crowds.
Rename men’s sports to “all- inclusive”
and women’s sports to “segregated”
If the coverage is 10%, it's because the audience is <1%. You can't force people to cover shit nobody is watching without investing capital you will never see back. Women's sports will never be interesting enough without exploiting their sexuality- TITS or GTFO.
Related stat. <<10% of sportswomen can outcompete a mediocre sportsman in a dress.
Go figure.
Half of society is women, hmm, why aren't they watching?
So, this was a very brief search, with a niche site source, and not "average" games.
WNBA Finals viewership at four-year high despite quiet finish:
LLWS dominates baseball viewing, but final is no match for 2019:
College championships get pretty decent viewership. If there's a gambling culture that grows around it, I could see a little league series getting views.