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NFL Draft In Nashville Sets Viewership Records On TV, Digital

This year’s coverage of the NFL Draft set viewership records across television, digital and attendance, the NFL said this morning. The three-day event posted a high in TV and digital viewers across ABC, ESPN, NFL Network and various digital channels with a 6.1 million average, up 8% from last year. Last year's event drew 5.5 million viewers across ESPN, NFL Network, Fox, ABC and ESPN2. Plus, the more than 600,000 fans in Nashville easily broke the NFL Draft’s attendance record set in ’17, when 250,000 fans attended the event in Philadelphia.

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