127,000 people watched the Overwatch League playoff on Friday night between the Philadelphia Fusion and the Boston Uprising on the Disney XD TV channel.

These numbers are according to the Friday cable ratings from ShowBuzzDaily, which ranks the top 150 original cable network shows.

Last week Blizzard announced an exclusive TV deal for the playoffs which stretched across Disney XD, a number of ESPN networks, and ABC.

127,000 people watched the Overwatch League playoff match on Disney XD on Friday night

The two hour broadcast on Friday night had a rating of 0.03 for ages 18-49, coming in at 145th on the list.

The ratings, which were posted to Reddit by user CWSensation, may not sound that impressive, but with a little extra context, esports fans should be happy with the outcome.

The Overwatch League playoffs were the only Disney XD show to make the top 150 on Friday, and CWSensation claims that it's rare for any Disney XD show to break the top 150 on Fridays.

It was a fairly late broadcast too, ending at around 4am BST, or 11pm on the US east coast, so having a high viewer figure on what is a children's TV channel at that time is quite impressive.

The match was also shown on ESPN3, but viewing figures for that broadcast are not available at this time.

The 127,000 figure is comparable to the online Twitch viewing figures for the same broadcast. When the league began, Blizzard signed an exclusive multi-year deal with the streaming service.

Twitch viewers peaked for the first week of the season, but have remained steady since then. It doesn't rake in the same kind of views of some esports tournaments, but the Overwatch League is a weekly broadcast, showing 12 matches a week across four days. That's a lot of Overwatch, but people remained tuned in for the majority of the first season.

People viewing on Twitch get in-game bonuses. It seems that the Twitch numbers haven't gone down with the introduction of TV broadcasts, meaning many of those watching on Disney XD are new viewers.

Now we're into the playoffs, viewership is expected to pick back up again as we head towards the final. That match alone will have a prize pool of $1.4 million, with $1 million going to the winner.

The first match of the final will be shown on ESPN's flagship network in prime time, which should be a very lucrative spot.