[SOCCER ON THE AIR] TThe late Sunday night match on ESPN2 between the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers drew an average of 426,000 viewers, the most for an MLSregular-season game on the Deuce in more than four years. It followed the lowest national audience of the year — only 69,000 viewers — for NBCSN’s late Friday night match between San Jose and D.C.United. But average viewers on all three of MLS’s English-language networks are up more than 80 percent year-to-year.
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