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Audience Analysis: USWNT Strong With Second World Cup Match

Fox averaged a total audience delivery (TV+streaming) of 5.41 million viewers for the USWNT’s win over Chile on Sunday, marking the most-viewed FIFA Women’s World Cup group stage match on record in the U.S. It also is the most-watched English-language soccer match in the U.S. since Fox drew 13 million viewers for France-Croatia in the men’s World Cup final last year. U.S.-Chile on Sunday had an average minute audience of 84,000 viewers on Fox Sports Go, marking the second-most streamed WWC match on record. Meanwhile, Univision and Univision Deportes on Saturday averaged 2 million viewers for Mexico-Cuba in the men’s Concacaf Gold Cup. That game, combined with Canada-Martinique, helped Univision to its best start for the North American soccer tourney since ’11.

The chart below lists final audience figures from select recent sports telecasts.

TELECAST
DATE
NET
TIME (ET)
RAT.
VIEWERS
(000)
NBA Finals: Raptors-Warriors: Game 6
6/13
ABC
8:59-11:51pm
10.7
18,763
NBA Finals: Raptors-Warriors: Game 5
6/10
ABC
8:59-11:43pm
10.6
18,601
NHL Stanley Cup Final: Blues-Bruins: Game 7
6/12
NBC
8:00-11:00pm
4.9
8,761
U.S. Open: Final Round
6/16
Fox
2:04-9:45pm
4.4
7,312
FIFA Women's World Cup:
group stage: U.S.-Chile
6/16
Fox
11:45am-2:00pm
3.0
5,324
U.S. Open: Third Round
6/15
Fox
12:00-10:00pm
2.8
4,195
U.S. Open: First Round
6/13
Fox
7:30-10:23pm
2.3
3,480
FIFA Women's World Cup:
group stage: U.S.-Thailand
6/11
Fox
2:38-5:00pm
1.7
2,626
U.S. Open: Second Round
6/14
Fox
7:30-10:33pm
1.7
2,601
Concacaf Gold Cup: Mexico-Cuba
6/15
Univision
9:33pm-12:00am
0.9
1,878
MLB: Cubs-Dodgers
6/16
ESPN
7:00-10:15pm
1.0
1,842
U.S. Open: second round
6/14
FS1
12:30-7:30pm
1.2
1,740
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series:
FireKeepers Casino 400 (Michigan)*
6/10
FS1
5:00-8:15pm
1.0
1,579
FIFA Women's World Cup:
group stage: France-Norway
6/12
Fox
2:44-5:00pm
0.9
1,441
U.S. Open: first round
6/13
FS1
12:30-7:30pm
1.0
1,380
FIFA Women's World Cup:
group stage: China-South Africa
6/13
Fox
2:41-5:00pm
0.8
1,254
FIFA Women's World Cup:
group stage: England-Argentina
6/14
Fox
2:42-5:00pm
0.8
1,230
FIFA Women's World Cup:
group stage: Australia-Brazil
6/13
Fox
11:41am-2:00pm
0.8
1,207
U.S. Open: first round (bonus featured groups)
6/13
FS1
7:30-10:23pm
0.8
1,141
Copa America: Brazil-Bolivia
6/14
Telemundo
7:50-10:31pm
0.6
1,100
College World Series: Florida State-Arkansas
6/15
ESPN
7:00-9:51pm
0.7
1,097
FIFA Women's World Cup:
group stage: Italy-Jamaica
6/14
Fox
11:42am-2:00pm
0.7
981
FIFA Women's World Cup:
group stage: Germany-Spain
6/12
Fox
11:42am-2:00pm
0.7
977
College World Series: Michigan-Texas Tech
6/15
ESPN
2:00-5:40pm
0.6
948
College World Series: Vanderbilt-Louisville
6/16
ESPN
2:00-5:12pm
0.6
939
NASCAR Xfinity Series: CircuitCity.com 250 (Iowa)
6/16
FS1
5:30-8:11pm
0.5
912
Track & Field: IAAF Diamond League (taped)
6/15
NBC
4:00-6:00pm
0.6
836
College World Series: Mississippi State-Auburn
6/16
ESPN2
7:30-11:31pm
0.5
829
Concacaf Gold Cup: Costa Rica-Nicaragua
6/16
Univision
8:01-10:30pm
0.4
821
Concacaf Gold Cup: Canada-Martinique
6/15
Univision
7:00-9:33pm
0.4
660
Major League Rugby Championship:
Seattle Seawolves-San Diego Legion
6/15
CBS
4:00-6:00pm
0.3
510
WNBA: Seattle Storm-Connecticut Sun
6/16
ABC
3:30-5:30pm
0.3
471
Premier Lacrosse League: Atlas-Chrome
6/16
NBC
2:30-4:30pm
0.2
306

NOTES: * = FS1's race telecast was rained out Sunday and ran Monday.

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