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/ 2498 days ago5.3 million watch USA-Chile Women's World Cup triumph on FOX
USA's 3-0 win against Chile on the over-the-air FOX network on Sunday averaged 5.3 million viewers to become the most-watched FIFA Women’s World Cup Group Stage match ever on U.S. television. Benefitting from a more favorable Noon to 2PM ET weekend timeslot, the game beat last week's 2.72 million viewers who watched the USA-Thailand game […]
Gold Cup
/ 2498 days agoGold Cup commentators on Univision Deportes, Group Stage
With the CONCACAF Gold Cup already in progress, the competition will begin to heat up this week as the US Men's National Team, Jamaica and Panama play their first games, as well as seeing the highly-anticipated game on Wednesday between Mexico and Canada. We've been able to get the list of commentators for the games […]
Gold Cup
/ 2501 days agoSchedule of Gold Cup commentators on FOX Sports, Group Stage
FOX Sports have announced their lineup of commentators for the Group Stage of 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup, which will be televised across FS1 and FS2 from June 15 to June 26. With the Women's World Cup and Copa America being played on the same days as the Gold Cup, FOX Sports faces a significant challenge […]
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/ 2501 days agoUSA-Thailand Women’s World Cup game nets 2.7 million on FOX
While the USA's 13-0 win against Thailand was an emphatic one on Tuesday, the viewership on over-the-air FOX was disappointing compared to the US's first game in the 2015 Women's World Cup. Viewership for USA-Thailand dropped 18% compared to the USA's first 2015 Women's World Cup game against Australia. In 2015, 3.31 million viewers tuned […]
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/ 2504 days agoWomen's World Cup opening weekend posts impressive TV ratings
From the opening weekend of the 2019 Women's World Cup, both FOX Sports and Telemundo posted impressive TV ratings including 1.48 million viewers for the England-Scotland World Cup game on over-the-air FOX, which trumped the 1 million viewers who watched the friendly between the US Men's National Team and Venezuela immediately afterwards. After three days […]
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/ 2504 days agoESPN's schedule of commentators for Copa America tournament
ESPN's coverage of the 2019 Copa America tournament will include all 26 games streamed live to viewers in the United States. Twelve of the games will feature commentators from ESPN, while the other 14 matches will include the world feed. None of the 26 games will be televised on ESPN. Instead, all of the games […]
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/ 2510 days agoTelemundo ready for Women’s World Cup and Copa America
In a recent conversation with World Cup winner Carli Lloyd, Telemundo Deportes President Ray Warren recounted what she said about watching soccer on Telemundo. "It's just more fun." Maybe it's Lloyd's admiration for Andrés Cantor's famous call of her goal from the last Women's World Cup Final, or it could be the energy and passion […]
Women's World Cup
/ 2511 days agoWomen's World Cup commentators for Group Stage (FOX Sports)
FOX Sports have announced their schedule of commentators for the Group Stage of the 2019 Women's World Cup. But the more things change in this world, the more they stay the same at FOX Sports when it comes to soccer coverage. "We're following the same blueprint that we did last summer in Russia," FOX Sports […]
TV Ratings
/ 2511 days ago2019 Champions League Final scores 2.9 million viewers
The 2019 UEFA Champions League Final between Liverpool and Spurs averaged 2.9 million viewers across TNT, Univision and Univision Deportes Network combined. Even though the two finalists were Premier League clubs, Univision and Univision Deportes Network averaged 1.4 million viewers across Spanish-language television. On TNT, the game averaged 1.5 million viewers to deliver the most-watched […]
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/ 2517 days agoLiga MX Clausura Final delivers 3.7 million viewers
Both legs of the Liga MX Clausura Final between Tigres and Leon delivered a combined viewing audience of 3.78 million across Univision Deportes. The first leg on Thursday averaged 1.828 viewers, while Sunday's second leg averaged 1.96 million for a combined average of 1.9 million viewers across Univision and Univision Deportes Network. That's 2% greater […]
beIN SPORTS
/ 2524 days agoKevin Egan departs beIN SPORTS for greener pastures
Soccer analyst and presenter Kevin Egan is leaving beIN SPORTS for new opportunities in Atlanta. Speaking exclusively to World Soccer Talk, Egan revealed: "While it’s true that my time in Miami has come to an end, beIN Sports and I have left the door open so that we may work together again. I’ve enjoyed nearly […]
Leagues: Champions League
/ 2531 days agoUnivision and TNT crush Champions League records
The debut season of the Champions League on Univision Deportes and Turner Sports has been an incredible success for UEFA and the two broadcasters who have broken numerous records as more people have watched this competition than ever before in the United States. Both Univision Deportes and TNT are generating the most-viewed domestic coverage ever […]
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/ 2531 days agoRecord 2.2 million watch Premier League season finale
If anyone ever doubted the popularity of the Premier League on US television, Sunday's live broadcasts of all 10 games on the final day of the season proved them wrong. Sunday's Premier League season finale registered a record Total Audience Delivery of 2.2 million viewers – marking the most-watched Championship Sunday in U.S. TV history, […]
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/ 2537 days agoWomen’s World Cup, Copa America and Gold Cup TV schedules
If you have any vacation time that you haven't used this year, you may want to consider asking your boss for some time off in June and July as the Copa America, Women's World Cup and CONCACAF Gold Cup all overlap with each other for one of the biggest summer's of soccer ever. Incredibly, there […]
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/ 2539 days agoUnivision to rebrand as TUDN in strategic alliance with Televisa
Univision Deportes Network will be renamed TUDN as a result of a strategic alliance between the sports divisions of Univision and Grupo Televisa, two of the biggest Spanish-language sports broadcasters in the world. Derived from the combination of the "T" in Televisa, the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the "UDN" in the […]