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UPDATED: UFC Fresno ratings: main card peaks at start of telecast

December 13, 2017 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

Updated ratings information from UFC Fight Night Fresno on FS1 Saturday night show that the card peaked at 1,037,000 viewers from 10:15-10:30pm ET according to Nielsen.

The prelims peaked at 826,000 viewers on FS1 Saturday night during the last quarter hour, 9:45pm-10pm ET according to Nielsen.

From our original post:

UFC Fight Night 123 drew 870,000 viewers on FS1 Saturday night.  The Prelims which preceded the main card drew 707,000 viewers.

The main card featured Brian Ortega and Cub Swanson in the main event.  The 185-minute UFC Fight Night 123 drew 0.32 in the A18-49 demo.  The two-hour prelim card drew 0.21 in the A18-49 demo.

The post-show on FS1 drew 315,000 viewers.  The 60-minute show which started after the main card drew 0.13 in the A18-49 demo.

The main card was up 16% in comparison to Q4’s UFC Fight Night average of 753,000 viewers.  On Fox Sports Go and Fox Now, the telecast average minute audience was 8,036.

Payout Perspective:

The updated ratings show that many that many people watched the end of the prelims and then the beginning of the main card and then the viewership went down from there.  The featured fight on the prelims was Alexis Davis pulling out a split decision against Liz Carmouche.  The first fight of the main card was a entertaining fight between Benito Lopez and Albert Moralex.  It could be due to the start of the Lomachenko-Rigo fight which started around 11pm ET (during the Eryk Anders-Marcus Perez fight).  Anders-Perez was the second fight on the main card.

Filed Under: DVR+3, FS1, ratings, UFC

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