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Combined USA-Mexico audience was upwards of 7 million
- by Paul Kennedy @pkedit, Sep 12, 2013
Tuesday's USA-Mexico match on UniMás averaged 4,132,000 viewers during the match broadcast.
Combined with the 2+ million average viewers on ESPN -- the broadcast measured as beginning at 7:41 p.m. ET averaged 2,243,000 viewers -- that means an average of upwards of 7 million viewers watched Dos a Cero IV on English- and Spanish-language television combined.
The game was the fourth most-viewed program in the history of the network, the former TeleFutura.
UniMás was the highest-rated station during the USA-Mexico qualifier among adults 18-34 in these key markets: Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix and Sacramento.
CORRECTION: Dos a Cero IV averaged 2,243,000 viewers on ESPN, not 2,430,000 viewers, as reported in the Wednesday Soccer Business Insider. It was, as reported, the second most-viewed U.S. men's national team qualifier or friendly ever on the network.
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"UniMás was the highest-rated station during the USA-Mexico qualifier among adults 18-34 in these key markets: Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix and Sacramento": all with large Latin populations. Even USA-Turks/Caicos friendly would probably have drawn similar ratings
does someone need to learn to count??? How does these numbers add up to "upwards of 7 million" as quoted in the title?
Marc: I am guessing that the term "average" means there were times when somewhat more than the average were watching, but it certainly was not defined or explained, and I noticed the numbers discrepancy too.