Overview
- Front Office Sports reported an average of 1.72 million viewers for ESPN’s and ESPN2’s one-hour WrestleMania 42 simulcasts.
- ESPN2 drew 1.62 million viewers for Night 1’s first hour, and ESPN drew 1.82 million for Night 2’s first hour.
- The pre-shows averaged 676,000 viewers on ESPN2 for Night 1 and 750,000 on ESPN for Night 2, according to industry coverage.
- These TV figures exclude ESPN Unlimited, which carried the full shows, so the total audience remains unknown.
- ESPN is reportedly paying $325 million a year for WWE events to anchor ESPN Unlimited, a strategy complicated by gaps such as no access yet for YouTube TV users.