By Paul Kennedy Yousef Al Obaidly, managing director of beIN Sport, says Al-Jazeera’s new soccer channelis the place for U.S. soccer fans — though they’ll have to scramble to find it if they want to watch the Jamaica-USA World Cup 2014 qualifier live from Kingston on Sept. 7. A week afterits launch, Bein Sport announced […]
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Mexico-USA is prime-time hit
By Paul Kennedy Wednesday’s Mexico-USA friendly, dubbed the “Aztecazo” forthe shocking U.S. win at Azteca Stadium, drew 9.4 million viewers who tuned in to all or part of the coverage on Spanish-language Univision, making it the No. 1broadcast program in primetime among adults 18-49, adults 18-34, men 18-49 and men 18-34 — beating ABC, CBS, […]
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U.S. Soccer wins six-year antitrust suit
By Paul Kennedy In an 82-page opinion issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber ruled forU.S. Soccer in the six-year case ChampionsWorld v. U.S. Soccer, throwing out the testimony of ChampionsWorld’s expert witness, therefore rejecting its antitrust claim and issuing a summary judgment infavor of U.S. Soccer. August 18, 2012 In 2003, ChampionsWorld matches […]
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New Fox Soccer News show debuts Friday
By Paul Kennedy Fox Soccer’s new one-hour nightly newscast, Fox Soccer News, debuts Friday at 10 p.m. ET. The show replaces Fox Soccer Report as FoxSoccer’s nightly soccer roundup, complete with a full conversion to HD, new hosts and for the first time on-the-ground reporters in Britain covering the biggest story lines from the Premier […]
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Soccer tops Olympic tweets, MLS TV gets boost, Bein Sport USA launches
By Paul Kennedy Olympic soccer’s popularity among young viewers was evident in social media. Twitter reported that soccer had the most Twitter conversation with well over 5 million Tweets. Other popular sports: swimming, thetrack & field, gymnastics and volleyball. MAKING A LIST. U.S.women’s star Alex Morgan ranked as the seventh most-clicked athlete on NBCOlympics.com … […]
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USA-Japan smashes viewing and streaming record
By Paul Kennedy Thursday’s USA-Japan Olympic gold-medal match was watched by 4.35 million viewers and had a national household rating of 2.74, making itthe most-watched and highest-rated event ever on NBC Sports Network. Until the 2012 Olympics, NHL Stanley Cup Final broadcasts on VERSUS had been the network’s mostwatched events, Additionally, the USA-Japan match drew […]
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USA-Canada viewing numbers off the charts in Canada
By Paul Kennedy It’s just FIFA’s good fortune that the next Women’s World Cup will be held in Canada. Think of all the USA-Canada friendlies the Canadians can hostbetween now and 2015 to build up interest in the next women’s world championship. And what about the prospect of a USA-Canada revenge match at the finals? […]
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Women's soccer's peak audience outdraws men's basketball
By Paul Kennedy How popular is the U.S. women’s national team’s quest for a third straight gold medal? The audience for Saturday’s 3-0 win over Colombia on NBC SportsNetwork peaked at 3.346 million, higher even than the peak audience for Sunday’s men’s basketball team game with a peak audience of 3.036 million. The USA-Colombia averaged […]
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MLS television audiences on rise
By Paul Kennedy Major League Soccer is averaging 345,000 viewers on ESPN/ESPN2, reports the Sports Business Journal. That represents an increase of 12 percent and 18 percent from 2011and 2010, respectively.here.)
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Almost 5.8 million viewers watch Euro 2012 final
By Paul Kennedy Spain’s 4-0 win over Italy in the Euro 2012 drew 4,068,000 viewers on ESPN, up 8 percentover the audience that watched Spain win Euro 2008 on ABC. An additional 1,125,000 viewers watched the final on the ESPN Deportes, making it the most-watchedtelecast ever on the Spanish-language network, and 563,000 watched on computers, […]