Of course, with the start of the new season, the Pacers had all the draft rights in their hands...
The show ended successfully, reaching an average viewership of 13 million, with the peak at about 17 million.
This is definitely the traffic only an ace program could generate.
You should know that ESPN is a subscription channel, discounting some of its regular users, there were still two to three hundred thousand who paid specifically for this program. Combined, that's several million in revenue.
Plus the investment from advertisers...
This episode alone made ESPN around forty to fifty million.
Hearing this figure, the top executives at ESPN were all smiles, enthusiastically pulling Su Wan, "The celebration party is ready, Su, let's go now!"