B
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4,700,000
4,700,000 -- peak broadcast viewers for ESPN (2025)
The 2025 Aer Lingus College Football Classic live broadcast on ESPN attracted a peak audience of 4.7 million viewers.
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Value
4,700,000
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Geography
EMEA
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Grant Thornton
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Tier B
https://businessplus.ie/media-plus/aer-lingus-college-football-classic-e132m/ ↗
Source Article
Aer Lingus College Football Classic generates €132m for Irish economy
Last year’s Aer Lingus College Football Classic delivered a €132m boost to the Irish economy, according to a new Post-Game Economic Impact Report compiled by Grant Thornton.
The 2025 fixture, played at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, saw Kansas State’s ‘Wildcats’ take on Iowa State’s ‘Cyclones’ in front of …
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Grant Thornton
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Methodology
Broadcast audience measurement for the Aer Lingus College Football Classic on ESPN
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RegionEMEA
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ESPN: 4,700,000 peak broadcast viewers. Source: Grant Thornton (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/aer-lingus-classic-espn-peak-viewers-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/aer-lingus-classic-espn-peak-viewers-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>4,700,000</strong> -- peak broadcast viewers for ESPN<br><small>Source: Grant Thornton (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/aer-lingus-classic-espn-peak-viewers-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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