UFC on Fox Sports 1 Does Huge Rating After NFL

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From Yahoo Sports:

– On the day, UFC Fight Night was the No. 1 show on ad-supported cable and the No. 2 show on all of television, outside of NFL programming, among M18-34, M18-49 and M25-54.

– FOX Sports 1 was the No. 1 network in ad-supported cable during the fight (10:00 PM-12:15 AM ET).

– Sunday was FOX Sports 1’s third most-watched Sunday (6:00 AM-3:00 AM), averaging 522,000 viewers, despite vicious competition form the NFC and AFC Championship Game broadcasts.

– Preceding the fight, the UFC preliminary card averaged 908,000 viewers, making it the second most-watched non-PPV prelims in FOX Sports 1 history behind the Ronda Rousey-Miesha Tate TUF Finale prelims in November 2013. It aired opposite the AFC Championship Game broadcast on CBS, and peaked during the final quarter-hour (9:45 PM ET -10:00 PM ET) with 1,486,000 viewers.

– Post-fight, FOX Sports Live averaged 1,167,000 viewers from 12:15 AM ET-1:00 AM ET, making it the most-watched Sunday edition of the program all time.

– Sunday’s UFC Fight Night drove FOX Sports GO to its largest authenticated UFC audience ever, outperforming the previous high (10/4/14) by +59% in total unique visitors.

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