NFL on ESPN Audience Graph • Social Signal

At 0.98, NFL Network is the strongest pull in NFL on ESPN's top 10 — but the neighbor set splits into two distinct neighborhoods before dropping off sharply into cross-category terrain.

The shape is two-peak. The first cluster is tight and football-specific: NFL Network (0.98), FOX Sports: NFL (0.96), NFL (0.96), Sunday Night Football (0.95), and NFL on CBS (0.93) form a dense band of TV channels, TV shows, and the league's own handle — all sharing the same subcategory space as NFL on ESPN itself. Similarity scores here measure audience composition, not competition; these entities draw crowds that look nearly identical in shape.

The second peak is softer but structurally distinct. SportsNation (0.89) and B/R Gridiron (0.89) represent sports-talk TV and football-focused web publishing. Then Russell Wilson (0.88) enters as the first athlete in the set — the only individual player in the top 10 — followed by ESPN (0.88) and SportsCenter (0.88), which pull the cluster back toward the parent network's broader sports-channel identity.

The top 10 contains no non-sports entities; every neighbor is a TV show, TV channel, website, sports league, or athlete operating within the football and sports-media ecosystem. The two-peak structure suggests this audience is anchored first by dedicated NFL coverage and second by the broader ESPN sports-media orbit — two overlapping but distinguishable gravitational centers.

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NFL on ESPN

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