UFL opens to mediocre numbers, with College Basketball hampering viewership on opening round action

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The UFL started its regular season this week, with four games and the ratings was met with mediocre numbers.

Two games aired on Fox and two on ESPN drawing in a combined 1.04 million, down by 500,000 from week one of the UFL’s debut season in 2022.

The football league faced stiff competition from the College Basketball which is reaching the business end.

Petros Augousti

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Content creator Petros Augousti has been a sportswriter for more than 20 years, working for some of the biggest media role-players globally including stints at Reuters, GQ magazine, Sports Illustrated and Multi-choice (SuperSport). He was a communications director for a professional soccer team for eight years, at one of the biggest clubs in Africa. He has been head of content for an award-winning multi-national free-to-play sports platform, headquartered out of Dubai, and focussing on Premier League soccer.

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