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/ 2844 days agoWorld Cup TV ratings continue to exceed 4 million per game on US TV
The 2018 FIFA World Cup continues to average more than 4 million viewers for every game of the competition across English-language and Spanish-language television combined. From June 14 to July 3, the US World Cup viewership is averaging 4.17 million on television alone. That includes games from the Group Stage through to the end of […]
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/ 2845 days ago2018/19 Premier League TV schedule for opening weeks
We have the preliminary schedule for the first two weeks of the 2018/19 Premier League season, which will be shown live across the NBC Sports networks in the United States. The new season will kick off with Manchester United against Leicester City on Friday, August 10 in a game that'll be shown across NBCSN and […]
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/ 2845 days agoSchedule of World Cup commentators for quarterfinals on FOX and Telemundo
FOX Sports and Telemundo have announced their lineup of commentators for the crucial World Cup quarterfinals that will be played this Friday and Saturday. As no surprise, Derek Rae and Aly Wagner continue to announce England games and will be calling the Sweden-England quarterfinal on Saturday. The biggest matches are saved for the duo of […]
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/ 2848 days agofuboTV launches 4K HDR coverage of World Cup
FuboTV has launched 4K HDR10 support in Beta, becoming the first sports-streaming platform to offer content in ultra-high definition and high dynamic range. Starting today, main broadcasts of World Cup 2018 matches on FOX and FS1 are available in 4K HDR10 with fuboTV on all Chromecast and Fire TV devices that support the format. fuboTV […]
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/ 2848 days agoTelemundo acquires Copa America TV for Spanish-language
On the heels of a very successful broadcast of the 2018 World Cup, Telemundo Deportes has acquired the Spanish-language broadcast rights to the 2019 Copa America. Hosted in Brazil, the 2019 Copa America will feature Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and invited teams from Japan and Qatar. The winner of […]
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/ 2851 days agoFOX Sports send Derek Rae and Aly Wagner to World Cup in Russia
One of the biggest criticisms about FOX Sports' coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is that the vast majority of announcers and co-commentators were calling games off a monitor from a studio in Los Angeles, over six thousand miles away from the Russian capital. But in positive news, FOX Sports has decided to fly […]
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/ 2851 days agoWorld Cup surpasses 1 billion minutes livestreamed via Telemundo
With the vast majority of World Cup games kicking off during office hours in the United States, the tournament has surpassed more than 1 billion minutes livestreamed via Telemundo Deportes' streaming through June 25. To date, the tournament has reached 32 million uniques, generating 73.8 million livestreams, and 1.06 billion total minutes viewed. Streaming across […]
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/ 2851 days agoTelemundo’s schedule of World Cup commentators for Round of 16 games
Telemundo has announced the lineup of commentators for the Round of 16 games in the World Cup. Beginning with the exciting first day on Saturday featuring France versus Argentina followed by Portugal against Uruguay, Telemundo will have Andrés Cantor and Manuel Sol calling the first game and then Sammy Sadovnik and Eduardo Biscayart on the […]
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/ 2851 days agoFOX’s schedule of 2018 World Cup commentators
FOX Sports has announced their lineup of commentators for the Round of 16 games in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. John Strong and JP Dellacamera will continue to call games from Russia alongside co-commentators Stuart Holden and Tony Meola, while Derek Rae and Aly Wagner have been flown to Russia to announce their first games […]
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/ 2852 days agoFOX beating Telemundo in World Cup TV ratings
FOX Sports has leapt ahead of Telemundo in generating more TV viewers for World Cup games on English-language television compared to Spanish-language TV for the first 11 match days. The World Cup games on FOX and FS1 are averaging 2,208,563 viewers, while Telemundo's average is 2,048,063. Compared to the first five match days of Russia […]
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/ 2855 days agoNBCSN to air England-Belgium World Cup game in Spanish
Thursday's World Cup match between England and Belgium has been added to NBCSN. The crunch match between both countries will air on both Telemundo and NBCSN in Spanish as the teams battle to determine who will end top of Group G. Adding this game to NBCSN makes perfect sense for NBC Sports given the sheer […]
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/ 2855 days agoColombia-Poland scores 7.9 million viewers on FOX and Telemundo
Sunday's exciting World Cup game between Colombia and Poland averaged 7.9 million viewers across FOX and Telemundo combined. With FOX televising the game via the over-the-air FOX network, which is in 116 million homes in the United States, the Colombia-Poland match averaged 4,384,000 viewers. That's compared to the game on Telemundo, which averaged 3,540,000 viewers. […]
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/ 2856 days agoGermany-Sweden tops 8.8 million on FOX & Telemundo combined
Saturday's exciting World Cup match between Germany and Sweden was the most-watched English-Language soccer telecast since the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final on FOX (22,317,000 on FOX alone for the full telecast in 2015). The Germany-Sweden game averaged 5,397,000 viewers on FOX and 3,430,000 on Telemundo for a combined average of 8,827,000 viewers. For FOX […]
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/ 2856 days agoWhopping 11 million watch Mexico-Korea on Telemundo and FOX combined
Saturday's World Cup encounter between Mexico and South Korea averaged more than 11 million viewers on US television across Telemundo and FOX combined. Mexico beat Korea Republic, 2-1, delivering 4,433,000 viewers across FOX, the second-most-watched match of this year’s tournament on FOX or FS1. Meanwhile, Telemundo averaged 6.6 million TV-only viewers for Mexico-South Korea in […]
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/ 2858 days agoWorld Cup averaging 3.7 million viewers on US TV
After the first 18 games of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the soccer tournament is averaging 3.7 million viewers on US television across Spanish-language Telemundo and English-language FOX Sports combined. That 3.7 million number doesn't include the increasing number of people watching the World Cup on streaming (Telemundo Deportes en Vivo had 4.3 million livestreams […]