A record 15.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the 2020 NFL Draft’s first night.
The 2020 NFL Draft's first night drew a record 15.6 million viewers across ESPN, ABC, NFL Network and ESPN Deportes, a 37% increase over last year.
In this still image from video provided by the NFL, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks from his home in Bronxville, New York during the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft on April 23, 2020. It may not have been the grandiose display planned for Las Vegas, but the NFL still managed a record-breaking weekend for the 2020 draft.
"I was thoroughly impressed — blown away, even — by how smooth the operation was," said Erik Bacharach, Titans beat reporter for The Tennessean. "I was fully expecting there to be some technological snags throughout the event." To the credit of IT employees around the league, "everything ran smoothly," an NFL spokesman told CNBC. The first two days of the draft were all-time ratings highs, he said.
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