Median age of baseball fans is 53 years and climbing. When the median age of horse racing fans passed 50 years, racetracks started closing. Baseball as a big commercial sport probably has about a decade to live.
Median age of baseball fans is 53 years and climbing. When the median age of horse racing fans passed 50 years, racetracks started closing. Baseball as a big commercial sport probably has about a decade to live.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/06/what-...
The median age of 'human beings' in America is climbing :)
Here's one example: home teams getting amazing ratings:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2016/07/19/with-2016-...
You'd be surprised at how some of these sports have huge fab-bases without the Kardashian media noise.
Media is changing just as much as anything, and this is a key factor. NYPost/NYT have to keep up to Buzzfeed. ESPN has to keep up with Netflix/online viewership.
Sports will have a harder time because the contracts are locked up and hard to access - whereas an upstart in Film/TV can come along and disrupt.