Major League Soccer’s final regular season broadcast of 2019 featured the San Jose Earthquakes and Portland Timbers — both fighting for a spot in the 2019 MLS Cup Playoffs — and drew an audience of 226,000 viewers on ESPN. ESPN’s networks finished the regular season seeing a 2% increase in viewership, up to 246,000 viewers per match, making up some of the ground from ESPN’s 10% drop in viewership from 2017 to 2018.
NBC’s coverage of the Premier League is averaging 780,500 viewers through their first eight broadcasts of the 2019-2020 season, down 7% from their first eight last season. Saturday’s matchup between West Ham and Crystal Palace drew just 596,000 viewers to the network, the Premier League’s fourth smallest audience on NBC in the past 3 seasons. However, for the 2019/20 season to date, Premier League average viewership across NBC, NBCSN and CNBC is up 12% compared to last season at this point.
Liga MX is still running strong on Univision with an average of 790,036 people tuning in per match broadcast on the network, up 18% from the 2018 Apertura. Univision is seeing even greater success with their near weekly Saturday night double-header averaging over 1 million viewers per match so far this Apertura.
Rank | Date | Competition | Teams | Network | Total |
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1 | 10/5 | Liga MX Apertura | Cruz Azul / Club América | Univision: 1300000 | 1,300,000 |
2 | 10/2 | Int’l Friendly | Mexico / Trinidad and Tobago | UniMás: 791000 | 791,000 |
3 | 10/2 | UEFA Champions League Group Stage | Barcelona / Inter Milan | TNT: 294000 / UniMás: 403000 | 697,000 |
4 | 10/5 | Premier League | West Ham / Crystal Palace | NBC: 596000 | 596,000 |
5 | 10/5 | Premier League | Liverpool / Leicester City | NBCSN: 551000 / Universo: 44000 | 595,000 |
6 | 10/6 | Premier League | Newcastle / Man Utd | NBCSN: 506000 / Universo: 43000 | 549,000 |
7 | 10/5 | Liga MX Apertura | León / Veracruz | UniMás: 523000 | 523,000 |
8 | 10/6 | Liga MX Apertura | Toluca / Puebla | Univision: 487000 | 487,000 |
9 | 10/6 | Premier League | Man City / Wolves | NBCSN: 394000 / Universo: 53000 | 447,000 |
10 | 10/1 | UEFA Champions League Group Stage | Real Madrid / Club Brugge | TNT: 175000 / UniMás: 241000 | 416,000 |
11 | 10/1 | UEFA Champions League Group Stage | Spurs / Bayern | TNT: 310000 / Galavision: 54000 | 364,000 |
12 | 10/6 | Int’l Friendly (W) | USWNT / Korea Republic | ESPN: 319000 | 319,000 |
13 | 10/1 | UEFA Champions League Group Stage | Juventus / Leverkusen | UniMás: 285000 | 285,000 |
14 | 10/5 | Premier League | Brighton / Spurs | NBCSN: 243000 / Universo: 21000 | 264,000 |
15 | 10/3 | Int’l Friendly (W) | USWNT / Korea Republic | FS1: 172000 / TUDN: 54000 | 226,000 |
16 | 10/6 | MLS | Portland Timbers / San Jose Earthquakes | ESPN: 226000 | 226,000 |
17 | 10/4 | Liga MX Apertura | Morelia / Necaxa | TUDN: 209000 | 209,000 |
18 | 10/6 | Liga MX Apertura | Querétaro / Monterrey | TUDN: 195000 | 195,000 |
19 | 10/2 | UEFA Champions League Group Stage | Genk / Napoli | UniMás: 180000 | 180,000 |
20 | 10/6 | Liga MX Apertura | Juárez / Atlético San Luis | TUDN: 131000 | 131,000 |
21 | 10/6 | Premier League | Arsenal / Bournemouth | CNBC: 122000 | 122,000 |
22 | 10/3 | UEFA Europa League Group Stage | Sevilla / APOEL | UniMás: 115000 | 115,000 |
23 | 10/5 | Liga MX Apertura | Tigres / Santos Laguna | Galavision: 113000 | 113,000 |
24 | 10/5 | Bundesliga | Freiburg / Dortmund | TUDN: 92000 | 92,000 |
25 | 10/6 | LaLiga | Barcelona / Sevilla | beIN: 87000 | 87,000 |
26 | 10/3 | UEFA Europa League Group Stage | Besiktas / Wolves | UniMás: 86000 | 86,000 |
27 | 10/3 | UEFA Europa League Group Stage | Arsenal / Standard Liège | TUDN: 60000 | 60,000 |
28 | 10/2 | UEFA Champions League Group Stage | Liverpool / Salzburg | Galavision: 53000 | 53,000 |
29 | 10/3 | UEFA Europa League Group Stage | AZ Alkmaar / Man Utd | TUDN: 35000 | 35,000 |
30 | 10/5 | Bundesliga | Schalke / Köln | TUDN: 22000 | 22,000 |
31 | 10/2 | UEFA Champions League Group Stage | Slavia Praha / Dortmund | Galavision: 17000 | 17,000 |
32 | 10/1 | UEFA Champions League Group Stage | Atalanta / Shakhtar Donetsk | Galavision: 12000 | 12,000 |
33 | 10/3 | UEFA Europa League Group Stage | Feyenoord / Porto | Galavision: 8000 | 8,000 |
34 | 10/3 | UEFA Europa League Group Stage | Sporting CP / LASK Linz | Galavision: 8000 | 8,000 |
35 | 10/6 | Bundesliga | Mönchengladbach / Augsburg | TUDN: 4000 | 4,000 |
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