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title: "LA Daily News: What the pandemic revealed about baseball"
description: "LA Daily News reporter JP Hoornstra looks at \"What the pandemic really revealed about baseball\" using TVision data to see how fans paid attention to the season."
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# [LA Daily News: What the pandemic revealed about baseball](https://www.tvisioninsights.com/resources/what-the-pandemic-revealed-about-baseball)

 Written by [TVision](https://www.tvisioninsights.com/resources/author/tvision) | Mar 14, 2021 6:22:01 PM

#### Has the pandemic changed the way we watch baseball forever? 

As baseball season kicks off, we are watching to see how our favorite teams fare on the diamond, but we will also be watching to see how MLB fares on the TV. [LA Daily News](https://www.dailynews.com/2021/03/04/hoornstra-what-the-pandemic-really-revealed-about-baseball/) sports columnist JP Hoornstra took a look at TVision's attention data to understand how the pandemic, and its shortened baseball season, which was played in empty stands, impacted TV viewership. The results show that while overall viewership was lower, fans that did tune in paid higher attention in 2020 than they did in 2019. Does this data indicate that the casual baseball viewer is gone forever? We will have to watch how the 2021 season plays out to know for sure.  Read the full story on[ LA Daily News.](https://www.dailynews.com/2021/03/04/hoornstra-what-the-pandemic-really-revealed-about-baseball/)

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