Definitely wouldn't take this to mean anything whatsoever. The only thing I would take out of this is the continued popularity of football, and it still being America's sport. Beyond that there is no way to measure overall popularity of any sport from this poll. I know plenty of people who are engulfed by football come fall but have the NBA as their second favorite sport to watch. This poll may shed light on something, just not anything meaningful IMO.
NFL is the #1 most popular sport, MLB is #2 and NBA is #7 behind NCAAF, Soccer, Hockey & AutoRacing
Behind Futebol, Yes I agree.
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
Feb 10 2014
Which Sports Have the Whitest/Richest/Oldest Fans?
The most-watched television event in U.S. history was this year's Super Bowl. The same was true of the Super Bowl in 2012. And in 2011. And in 2010.
But the supermassive audience of the final game is just the capstone on football's monopoly of the little screen. NFL games accounted for 34 of the 35 most-watched TV shows last fall, according to TV by the Numbers. Football dominates the world of sports, and live sports dominates the world of television. It's no wonder, then, that the Super Bowl stands apart from the rest of television like a Petronas Tower airlifted into a suburb.
Although sports account for just barely 1 percent of all TV programming, it accounts for 7 percent of the total cost of pay-TV, and 50 percent of the of Tweets about television, according to Nielsen's 2013 Year in Sports Media Report. We can go on and on about how sports programming has become central to the business model of live cable TV (and therefore a central driver of the cost of cable), but that's for another day.
Today, let's look at TV demographics. Yes, the NFL is the most-watched sport. But which sport's audience is richest? Whitest? Youngest? Fortunately, Nielsen tracks that data, too. First some highlights, then the graphs. (Note: Nielsen's survey figures are heavy on older, whiter audiences, since they're more likely to own a television and pay for cable.)
To close with a random but delightful stat from the report: Denmark's Handball Men’s Championship on DR1 was watched by nearly 80 percent of the country's TVs.
The graph confirms
1.NFL
2.NBA
3.MLB
4.NHL
Which Sports Have the Whitest/Richest/Oldest Fans?
The most-watched television event in U.S. history was this year's Super Bowl. The same was true of the Super Bowl in 2012. And in 2011. And in 2010.
But the supermassive audience of the final game is just the capstone on football's monopoly of the little screen. NFL games accounted for 34 of the 35 most-watched TV shows last fall, according to TV by the Numbers. Football dominates the world of sports, and live sports dominates the world of television. It's no wonder, then, that the Super Bowl stands apart from the rest of television like a Petronas Tower airlifted into a suburb.
Although sports account for just barely 1 percent of all TV programming, it accounts for 7 percent of the total cost of pay-TV, and 50 percent of the of Tweets about television, according to Nielsen's 2013 Year in Sports Media Report. We can go on and on about how sports programming has become central to the business model of live cable TV (and therefore a central driver of the cost of cable), but that's for another day.
Today, let's look at TV demographics. Yes, the NFL is the most-watched sport. But which sport's audience is richest? Whitest? Youngest? Fortunately, Nielsen tracks that data, too. First some highlights, then the graphs. (Note: Nielsen's survey figures are heavy on older, whiter audiences, since they're more likely to own a television and pay for cable.)
- The NBA has the youngest audience, with 45 percent of its viewers under 35. It also has the highest share of black viewers, at 45 percent—three times higher than the NFL or NCAA basketball.
- Major League Baseball shares the most male-heavy audience, at 70 percent, with the NBA.
- The NHL audience is the richest of all professional sports. One-third of its viewers make more than $100k, compared to about 19 percent of the general population.
- Nascar's audience has the highest share of women (37 percent) and highest share of white people (94 percent).
- The Professional Golfers Association has the oldest audience by multiple measures: smallest share of teenagers; smallest share of 20- and early 30-somethings; and highest share of 55+ (twice as high, in the oldest demo, as the NBA or Major League Soccer).
- Major League Soccer has the highest share of Hispanics by far (34 percent; second is the NBA at 12 percent) and the lowest income of any major sports audience. Nearly 40 percent of its fans make less than $40k.
- The NCAA demographics for football and basketball are practically identical but they are surprising old (about 40% over 55+) and surprisingly white (about 80%), which clearly has as much to do with who owns a TV rather than who follows the sports.
To close with a random but delightful stat from the report: Denmark's Handball Men’s Championship on DR1 was watched by nearly 80 percent of the country's TVs.
The graph confirms
1.NFL
2.NBA
3.MLB
4.NHL
WhodatWhoadi
Naw
I find the NFL and MLB more entertaining then the NBA,fukking refs ruin it for me, it seems they blow the fukking whistle for everything...
cant even take a few steps on the court or lightly bump into a dude without a fukking whistle...
yasiel puig making old whiteys mad>>>>>tall lanky faggets blowing their quads and refs blowing their whistles...
cant even take a few steps on the court or lightly bump into a dude without a fukking whistle...
yasiel puig making old whiteys mad>>>>>tall lanky faggets blowing their quads and refs blowing their whistles...
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
NBA is the only big sport outside of Soccer with true global crossover appeal. MLB, NHL and NFL players don't draw crowds like these in other countries
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
What I Learned From A Year Of Watching SportsCenter
http://deadspin.com/what-i-learned-from-a-year-of-watching-sportscenter-5979510
Which names is SportsCenter writing over and over again in its Trapper Keeper?
As Sanchez's inexplicable prominence suggests, the great SportsCenter engine runs not just on money and major sports to which ESPN happens to hold broadcast rights, but also on celebrity. Watch the show at the right time of year, and you might come away thinking that there are only a half-dozen or so athletes in the entire world.
To put in perspective just how fixed SportsCenter gets on the anointed, consider that Tim Tebow got 17 percent more mentions than successful professional quarterbacks Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers put together. Then consider that he wasn't, unbelievably enough, even one of SportsCenter's five most fussed-over athletes.
As you can see, if you want the all-powerful SportsCenter to aid your personal #branding campaign, it helps to either play basketball or line up under center. Of the 20 most-mentioned athletes, in fact, 11 play in the NBA and seven were quarterbacks (assuming Tebow counts as one). Golf and baseball each claimed one spot. No one else, from Serena Williams to Lionel Messi, rated at all.
CUMULATIVE STATISTICS (2012)
Total time: 23,052.75 minutes
Time (minus commercials): 17,361.25
NFL: 4,046.25 (23.3%)
NBA: 3,330.5 minutes (19.2%)
MLB: 2,916.5 (16.8%)
SportsCenter staples**: 2,289 (13.2%)
College football: 1,329.75 (7.7%)
College basketball: 1,181.25 (6.8%)
Golf: 580.75 (3.3%)
NHL: 459.5 (2.7%)
NASCAR: 362.25 (2.1%)
Other***: 315 (1.8%)
Soccer: 217.75 (1.3%)
Olympics: 166.5 (.9%)
Tennis: 166.25 (.9%)
MOST-COVERED TEAMS BY SPORT (2012)
Miami Heat (NBA): 962.75 minutes (5.5%)
New York Yankees (MLB): 410.25 (2.4%)
New York Giants (NFL): 362.75 (2.1%)
Alabama Crimson Tide (college football): 208.75 (1.2%)
Kentucky Wildcats (college basketball): 155.25 (0.9%)
Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL): 56.5 (0.3%)
MOST-MENTIONED SPORTS FIGURES (2012)
1) LeBron James: 1,930 mentions
2) Kobe Bryant: 1,345
3) Peyton Manning: 1,218
4) Dwyane Wade: 1,167
5) Kevin Durant: 1,109
6) Tiger Woods: 1,011
7) Tim Tebow: 976
8) Tom Brady: 894
9) Jeremy Lin: 871
10) Derrick Rose: 830
11) Carmelo Anthony: 804
12) Dwight Howard: 752
13) Eli Manning: 621
14) Russell Westbrook: 578
15) Rajon Rondo: 568
16) Robert Griffin III: 567
17) Josh Hamilton: 460
18) Blake Griffin: 457
19) Drew Brees: 433
20) Aaron Rodgers: 401
* This analysis had to exclude teams without unique names—e.g., the Jets, who play both hockey and football. I also left out the 2012 playoff champions and runners-up in any sport, because they attract tons of attention regardless of their regular-season performance.
** Includes things like the "Top 10," "Encore," "What 2 Watch 4," etc.
*** Sports included cycling, lacrosse, Little League baseball, college hockey, arena football, softball, extreme sports, drag racing, Formula One, and IndyCar.
Graphics by Reuben Fischer-Baum and David Roher.
http://deadspin.com/what-i-learned-from-a-year-of-watching-sportscenter-5979510
@ nascar fans. bunch of ricky bobbys. who would've thought talladega nights was more of a documentary than a comedy. 
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
Very few white people I know watch the NBA.
The main supporters of the NBA financially speaking are white fans
Race and the NBA: 4 Takeaways from Nate Silver’s Study
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/sports/...aways-from-nate-silvers-study.html/?a=viewall
Dragonfly Jones
Siiiiiiiilence Punk!!
NBA season is too long and playoffs aren't exciting unless it's the last game in a 7 game series
they should shorten the season and make the playoffs just one game like in football
they should shorten the season and make the playoffs just one game like in football
QuintessentialBM
GoldenAgeGamer82 - PSN ID
MLB is dead to me and has been since the exposal of the steroid era. All of my favorite players have retired and are in the Hall. Baseball has worldwide interest, along with those multi-year/multi-million dollar deals that are about to be eclipsed by the NBA. Latin America and Japan are the only places that is holding baseball together.
You can get MLB money in soccer, but you have to be a transcendent player and play in Europe. The money is there though. Soccer in the USA is getting bigger, contrary to popular belief. Bundesliga(German top flight) will be on premium TV for next season, along with MLS and Liga MX (Mexican). Pay-per-view soccer matches are going away.
NHL.... Who cares but the American Hockey cities, Scandanavia, Canada and Eastern Europe? They are big soccer nations well.
NFL/NCAA Football still has its niche market.
NBA/NCAA basketball's market expanding as more, better players from around the world make it into the league and are putting in work. The NBA's summertime exposure of other entities (Euro ball, NBDL, ect) is creating a year-round market as well. Multi-million MLB deals are about to be commonplace in the NBA.
NASCAR is heading towards the bushes because of soccer's growth.
You can get MLB money in soccer, but you have to be a transcendent player and play in Europe. The money is there though. Soccer in the USA is getting bigger, contrary to popular belief. Bundesliga(German top flight) will be on premium TV for next season, along with MLS and Liga MX (Mexican). Pay-per-view soccer matches are going away.
NHL.... Who cares but the American Hockey cities, Scandanavia, Canada and Eastern Europe? They are big soccer nations well.
NFL/NCAA Football still has its niche market.
NBA/NCAA basketball's market expanding as more, better players from around the world make it into the league and are putting in work. The NBA's summertime exposure of other entities (Euro ball, NBDL, ect) is creating a year-round market as well. Multi-million MLB deals are about to be commonplace in the NBA.
NASCAR is heading towards the bushes because of soccer's growth.
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I don't know about hockey, but Nascar sure is. That shyt is huge with white people, especially in the south. The ratings they get are huge and their races have like 100,000 people and shyt.
And people here don't understand how sample sizes work. Most people are more similar than they think, which means if you sample 2200 random people, it's going to be reflective of a larger group because most people really aren't that different.
Don't you ever wonder why you always see commercials with nascar drivers? Or why foxsports dedicates hours of programming to it?
feelosofer
#ninergang
You can tell they only polled white people over 35.
Rocket Scientist
Superstar
Only time I will watch a whole game of baseball is a series clinching game 7.