{"id":1182482,"date":"2021-01-07T21:28:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T02:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1182482"},"modified":"2021-01-07T21:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T02:28:19","slug":"even-with-empty-stadiums-nfl-still-a-ratings-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1182482","title":{"rendered":"Even with empty stadiums, NFL still a ratings monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/even-with-empty-stadiums-nfl-still-a-ratings-monster\/19462158\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2021\/01\/07\/19462159\/5ff7a115b1d40-media_c18fb66937e740adbd63127bd01596a8-DMID1-5pgj65pmd-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Chargers_Chiefs_Football_06312\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Regular-season ratings for NFL games declined this season following two straight years of increases. But in a year that saw the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and a presidential election, the 7% decrease isn&#8217;t as bad as the league and its broadcast partners feared before the season began. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/even-with-empty-stadiums-nfl-still-a-ratings-monster\/19462158\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/even-with-empty-stadiums-nfl-still-a-ratings-monster\/19462158\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Even with empty stadiums, NFL still a ratings monster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular-season ratings for NFL games declined this season following two straight years of increases. But in a year that saw the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}