Having over 113 million viewers for one game is nothing to be sniffed at, more worryingly for the NFL, during the regular season (of 16 games), viewer figures declined by 8%, according to ESPN.
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BusinessOfSport.Net YouTube ChannelBack in July last year, stunning news emerged that the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was being sold for an eye-watering $4 billion to William Morris Endeavor-International Management Group, (WME-IMG), one of the biggest representation firms in sport. The price tag stands as most expensive transaction for an organisation in sports history and was about seven times its gross…
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