![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Half the battle in building a fanbase is letting them know where to find you. Their network TV numbers are staying pace with what the USFL was able to do last season, but they have fewer viewers overall because more of their games have been relegated to cable networks at weird times. And it should be a sharp reminder to the XFL that they need to do whatever is possible to get their games on broadcast television as much as possible. With numbers like that, it's no wonder networks are trying to back the XFL and the USFL. The viewership numbers speak for themselves. So, we can draw a fairly decent sorting system here-playoff basketball > minor league football > regular-season hockey > regular-season soccer. Sunday's Brahmas-Renegades contest drew 750,000 viewers, and that was against an Elite 8 matchup in the NCAA tournament. The other ABC game also drew well considering its competition. For a minor league game, that's very, very solid. And that's without counting the viewers on ESPN+, which could easily add low six digits to the figure. It was competing head-to-head with an MLS game on FOX that drew 270,000 viewers. The Sea Dragons-Guardians game drew 1.05 million viewers on Saturday afternoon-and that was to watch a team that has yet to win a game this season! To put that into context, that led into an NHL game on ABC that only drew 920,000 viewers. The league returned to ABC and network television for the first time since Week 1 and accordingly topped 1 million viewers for the first time since opening weekend. XFL - Would you rather watch a minor league football game or professional hockey? If you're reading an XFL preview at the end of March, your answer is probably fairly clear, but we got a decent test of what the country as a whole thought this past week-and it's fairly good news for the XFL. ![]()
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