Longtime soccer journalist Grant Wahl died today while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Details surrounding Wahl’s death are unclear.
23.11.2022 - 03:33 / deadline.com
The United States began its 2022 World Cup campaign on Monday against Wales, scoring nearly 12M viewers across Fox and Telemundo.
This included an impressive average of 8.3M viewers on Fox across broadcast and digital platforms as well as 3.4M viewers for the Spanish-language broadcast.
Given that the game was on a Monday morning, it bodes well for the USA’s next game against England on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, kicking off at 2pm ET which is widely expected to be one of the most watched soccer games in U.S. TV history.
The USA/Wales match, which ended in a 1-1 tie, aired at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, following the Netherlands 2-0 win over Senegal. It peaked from 3:45 to 4 p.m. ET with 9.4M viewers tuning in. On streaming, the match was the most-streamed group stage match in Fox Sports history with an average audience of 563,000.
Viewership was certainly boosted by the game’s presence on Fox’s broadcast channel, as opposed to its cable channels, Fox Sports 1 and 2. Matches are also simultaneously streaming on the Fox Sports App.
Spanish-language coverage of the match averaged about 3.4M viewers across Telemundo, Peacock and Telemundo Deportes’ digital platforms. About a million of those viewers came from streaming.
Viewers across the pond benefitted from a later start time of 7 p.m., and 11.5M people were watching the match on BBC.
Earlier in the day, England’s fiery 6-2 win over Iran was viewed by 1.6M total viewers in the U.S. across FS1 and digital platforms. That match began at 8 a.m. ET/5 a.m. PT, which explains at least in part why not too many U.S. viewers tuned in. On BBC, that match peaked with 8M U.K. viewers around lunchtime.
Context is important with World Cup ratings.
ESPN had the English-language
Longtime soccer journalist Grant Wahl died today while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Details surrounding Wahl’s death are unclear.
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