Wk 4 Viewership

[4th&long]

>>#UFL2024 Week 4 TV Ratings (Average Viewership) Saturday April 20 St.Louis-Memphis: (ABC): 954,000

  Birmingham-D.C/San Antonio-Michigan: (FOX): 951,000 Sunday April 21

  Arlington-Houston: (FS1): 243,000 #UFL
   10:26 AM · Apr 23, 2024 <<



>> FOX’s regionalized #UFL coverage featuring DC-Birmingham and Michigan-San Antonio this past Saturday night averaged 951,000 viewers. Up 10% vs. last year’s broadcast network average of 864,000 viewers for regular season USFL and XFL games on FOX, ABC and NBC.  10:19 AM · Apr 23, 2024 <<

Sans FS1 a very good week against NBA and NHL playoff competition.  FS1 was hoping at least 300k but alas came up short, not really surprising and that's one and done.

Broadcast - on Target !  Avg over 950k!  And that was with a DC/Birm rain delay and a main Camera that was having strobe like issues - Fox had that rain delay and still could not fix it - that was the most disappointing part of the telecasts for me this w/e.

Despite the FS1 game 3 game avg was 716k - pretty darn good.

[laxtreme56]

I really think they could've eclipsed 1 million had the Birmingham - DC game not gone into a 90 min delay. Lucky for me I recorded the game. Got home from my gig work at 9 and was able to watch San Antonio - Michigan in its entirety off DVR and caught the 4th quarter of DC Birmingham on FS1 

[4th&long]

I really think they could've eclipsed 1 million had the Birmingham - DC game not gone into a 90 min delay. Lucky for me I recorded the game. Got home from my gig work at 9 and was able to watch San Antonio - Michigan in its entirety off DVR and caught the 4th quarter of DC Birmingham on FS1 



 

In a way they did break 1mm - SMW reporting the rain delayed game which picked up on FS1 (and it was not clear to the audience IMO) got an additional 137k - if you count that as a "simulcast" of sorts your well over 1mm

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2024/0 ... -and-more/

>> In the UFL, ABC averaged a 0.6 and 954,000 for a Memphis-St. Louis matinee, while FOX drew a 0.55 and 951,000 for a primetime regional window. One of those regional games — DC-Birmingham — was weather delayed and had to conclude on FS1, where it averaged a 0.08 and 137,000. <<

However you look at it - its 137k extra viewers for UFL.

ALSO UFL has BEAT the NHL on single channel across all NHL playoff games on Saturday - granted NHL got additional viewers on TruTV to top UFL in one game but the Islander game even with TruTV UFL topped NHL.  Great day for UFL

[MGB01]

Very good, I'd upgrade it to excellent since I went over in both


FS1 (as ESPN2 will be in a few weeks) was a one-time necessity, and it kept week 4 on the Sat/Sun rotation, it's not anything that wasn't known going in. Actually if anything it's almost a reminder of how bad ESPN screwed themselves in the NBA deal ten years ago, out of this fear that FS1 and NBCSN were going to be these strong competitors--um, not quite.