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The good news and bad news of viewership for the 2024 PBA Players Championship

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 6:00 pm
The good news and bad news of viewership for the 2024 PBA Players Championship
Bill O'Neill, center, with PBA Tour Commissioner Tom Clark, left, and PBA Hall of Famer Chris Barnes, right, after O'Neill won the 2024 PBA Players Championship. Photo by PBA.
We will never know how large viewership would have been for Monday’s stepladder finals of the 2024 PBA Players Championship if the Pittsburgh Steelers-Buffalo Bills NFL wild card playoff game hadn’t been postponed to the PBA’s time slot by a lake effect blizzard in Buffalo on Sunday. But there are indications it might have been a big number, which is why FOX and PBA chose the Monday time slot over going head-to-head with the NFL playoffs on Saturday or Sunday. The Players,...