The NFHS Network said that despite roughly 25 percent of states officially postponing all or the majority of their fall sports and activities, overall live viewership on the NFHS Network is up almost 200 percent year over year. Total aggregate live views have increased from 375,000 to 1.1 million in the first two months of the school year.
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