# Sports viewership and revenue

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-viewership-and-revenue/242196>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 27, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-viewership-and-revenue/242196 "2004-04-27T01:35:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-viewership-and-revenue/242196/1 "2004-04-27T01:35:21Z")

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How many people watch or attend the major sports in the US? How much money do each of the major sports bring in each year?

I am mostly intreasted in Baseball, but I am intreasted in how Baseball ranks with the other sports, (NBA, NFL, NHL, Etc.).

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**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-viewership-and-revenue/242196/2 "2004-04-27T16:20:13Z")

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Bump for the day people

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**Author:** ![Grant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grant)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-viewership-and-revenue/242196/3 "2004-04-27T17:06:26Z")

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Team by team attendance for mlb [http://slam.canoe.ca/Baseball/attendance.html](http://slam.canoe.ca/Baseball/attendance.html)

As baseball compares to others, I would suspect baseball is behind the NFL and NASCAR (if you consider this a sport) in per event attendance but may be #1 in overall attendance beause of the long schedule and large venues. That is just speculation though.