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You're listening to Draft King's Network. Hello there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with

Andrew Brand, a unique podcast going inside the game, behind the game, to tell you what you really need to know

about sports, about football, about making you smarter, about the things that are in the news.

There's a ton in the news this week with the NFL. We'll get to all that in a minute.

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Draft Kings, produced by Jack Connell. Music you hear under me is that of my son at Boy Blue Tunes

on Spotify. What a week it was, I want to get to the coaches in a minute. Nick Saban, Bill

Belichick, Pete Carroll, moving on from their teams. That's a

story in itself. That's a 24-hour period in coaching that we may have never had before. I want to

get into that in a minute. First, let's talk about some end-of-season stuff with the NFL as we

head into the second season, which is the postseason.

Some looking back, first of all, ratings better than ever. It's like every week, every year,

it seems there are more and more people watching the NFL. So all the networks are in now.

And the overall number is astounding.

18 million people. Average game for the NFL was 18 million people. Think about that.

So an average NFL game taking into account the 1 o'clock, the 4 o'clock, the night games,

the Thursday night, Sunday night, Monday night, that is an incredible number. 18 million people

are watching these games. On average. So that's a 7% increase from 2022. I'm sorry, yes,

from 2022. And let's go by network. Ratings were up 29% on ESPN,

which got a better slate of Monday night games, 24% on Amazon, which obviously increased in the

second year, 8% on NBC, 5% on CBS, 2% on Fox, every day part was up.

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