{"id":1583189,"date":"2024-06-05T20:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T00:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1583189"},"modified":"2024-06-05T20:49:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T00:49:17","slug":"ufl-averages-816k-viewers-in-the-2024-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/ufl-averages-816k-viewers-in-the-2024-regular-season\/","title":{"rendered":"UFL Averages 816K Viewers in the 2024 Regular Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
The United Football League (UFL) was founded on Dec. 31, 2023, and its high-level minor league play began this past March. In its first regular season, the league averaged more viewers than the United States Football League (USFL) and XFL.<\/p>\n
According to Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal<\/i>, the UFL\u2019s 40 regular-season games on ABC, Fox, ESPN, ESPN2, and FS1 averaged 816,000 viewers. Last year, the USFL averaged 601,000 viewers, and the XFL averaged 622,000.<\/p>\n
More importantly, the UFL was able to attract a larger audience on broadcast TV. Six games, which were all on broadcast TV, had at least one million football fans tuning in to watch.<\/p>\n
\nUFL regular-season viewership in '24 surged past prior spring football efforts, thanks to improved scheduling & a unified league post @USFL<\/a>-XFL merger \ud83c\udfc8<\/p>\n
Games across Fox, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and FS1 averaged 816,000 viewers this season.<\/p>\n
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