If coronavirus delays the NFL, a third of cable subscribers say they’ll cancel

[Andy Meek]

• ESPN's ratings are down in a major way right now, thanks to the fact that the coronavirus pandemic means no professional sports games are being played right now.
• A new survey reveals another coronavirus impact on the economy -- many cable subscribers say live sports is the major reason they have a cable package in the first place, and if the NFL season gets delayed because of the virus, they'll cut the cord.
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Thanks to the mitigation practices required to combat the coronavirus outbreak like social distancing and the stay-at-home-orders that have much of the country not going out in public right now, one of the many industries getting hit especially hard is professional sports.

The professional basketball, hockey, and baseball seasons all got iced because of the virus, as did the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, and there are other spillover effects that can be seen from this -- including the fact that ESPN's ratings are down some 50% compared to this point in 2019. There are no new games to watch! But that also begs another question: What's going to happen if or when the NFL gets postponed because of the virus? Because even with the country talking about tentatively reopening certain things in another month or so, we're still not going to have a COVID-19 vaccine until next year -- which means that big, public gatherings where tens of thousands of people are crowded together won't be happening anytime soon.

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