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Originally Posted by Jason14h

Why do you believe it would be a TV dud?

People who barely watch NFL held online draft parties they are so starved for sports.

If the NHL got out in front of the other sports leagues they could get a lot of new american viewers.

Yup.

The draft last week SMASHED all the records.....and again there were no games or anything, just a bunch of names getting announced.

According to information from the NFL, the average audience during the Round 1 of the draft was 15.6 million, which was a 37 percent increase over the average audience from last year's (11.4 million). More impressively, the viewership number was a 26 percent increase over the 2014 NFL Draft -- aka, the Johnny Manziel draft -- which produced an average audience of 12.4 million viewers that stood as the record until Thursday night. The average viewership was tallied based on the number of combined viewers from ABC, ESPN and NFL Network, which all televised the draft.

The viewership number for the draft peaked between 8:45 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. ET, when the Dolphins were on the clock. A total of 19.6 million people were watching when Miami decided to use their first first-round pick on Tua Tagovailoa.

But the main driver behind some unbelievable ratings was the NFL draft being the main event on the sports calendar in April. With most people staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, the second day of the NFL draft did numbers that other sports would love for big playoff games.

An average of 8.2 million viewers watched the second day of the draft across ABC, ESPN, NFL Network, ESPN Deportes and digital platforms. That’s a second-day record for NFL draft ratings. The first day also shattered a record, with an average of 15.6 million viewers.

https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-draft-s...215758662.html