WSOP on ESPN: Television Ratings Hit a Rough River

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The wsop's return to ESPN did not reach the viewership of earlier years, says poker commentator Lance Bradley in his column on Substack.

The highest peak, close to 600k viewers was seen during the final table's head's up match. This is far away from 2009 figures when poker could hold on to two million viewers or so, to keep their attention.

We shouldn't be that surprised though. Back then, there were no Netflix, Hulu, or other streaming platforms competing for people's free time.
 
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They really didn't promote it, and it was unclear what channel and time they were broadcasting. Not surprised ratings were down.
 
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i didn't know when any preliminary tourneys were shown . i only was able to watch 2 days of the final table and the last day head up was a dud .
 
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a dead game trying be promoted lol #rippoker
 
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ESPN put me in this poker world unfortunately, shame on their name
 
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I lost interest when the comments dude showed disdain for poker and was only interested when he was commentating. It was the guy who nade laboured comments about his 3 marriges and his college.
One year they played it without showng the cards and every hand played, that hooked me. We had to do our own thinking.
 
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LUKADONCICMVP said:
ESPN put me in this poker world unfortunately, shame on their name
Click to expand...

You & @WrongUsername should start up the Poker Haters CLub.
 
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After years of being behind a paywall, I think we can only start to judge these numbers over a few years of being more accessible. In the UK it was still a little hard to find, I think I watched on youtube, but it was a little quirky to find it each day. ESPN is a paid for channel in the UK.
Also I couldn't watch the FT live.

600k is still a lot of people, considering there are as you say more competing thimgs to watch, including poker content such as streamers etc
 
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I really miss the November nines on ESPN.Unfortunately,I couldn´t watch it this time because i think it wasn´t available in my country Perú.
 
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that doesn't sound strange . Nowadays poker is not as popular as it used to be in the past . Of course still people watch it , but not too many . Maybe if wsop adds sth different in it's programm or presentation it will attract more viewers
 
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