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Soccer on TV
Listings for domestic and foreign soccer games on television and streaming information for the next few days.
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Premier League to kick off season with massive U.S. push
The burgeoning U.S. soccer market, boosted by the World Cup, offers many opportunities. The Premier League is jumping in with “Coast to Coast,” 20 watch parties linked to the 10 matches on the opening week (Aug. 21-24). Watch parties drove a lot of the excitement of the World Cup. They aren’t new for the Premier […]
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World Cup final draws 66.4 million viewers
Sunday’s World Cup final between Spain and Argentina shattered all U.S. viewing records for a soccer game after they had been shattered earlier in the tournament. The combined audience (Match window) on Fox and Telemundo platforms was 66.4 million viewers, the most for a non-NFL sportscast since the 1994 Winter Olympics. Fox reported it averaged […]
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Magic in a bottle
The irony of the 2026 World Cup is that it began with all sorts of questions about affordability and access and inclusion, but it became one of the greatest communal events of our lifetime. All for you and me to watch, cheer and go nuts with others and watch others do the same thing. All […]
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The small world of French soccer
My introduction to les banlieues of Paris came 50 years ago when I was accepted in an internship program that took me to St. Denis. I did not know a lot of French — my French consisted of a couple of college classes and what I picked up, devouring L’Equipe and France Football, which I […]
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MEDIA: SA’s Mike Woitalla on Soccer Media Podcast
The flaws of Fox Sports’ play-by-play announcing were among the topics discussed when Mike Woitalla joined the Soccer Media Podcast.
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USA-Belgium and Mexico-England draw almost 97 million viewers
The USA-Belgium match averaged 50.1 million viewers on Fox and Telemundo platforms, while Mexico-England drew a U.S. audience of 46.7 million (both game windows only), making them the two most-watched non-NFL sporting events since the 1994 Winter Olympics. • The 33,086,000 viewers on Fox is the largest on any network since Super Bowl LX (Seahawks-Patriots) on Feb. […]
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Mexico-England draws almost 45 million viewers
Sunday night’s Mexico-England match in the round of 16 will go down as the best World Cup game ever involving a Concacaf team. For the quality of the game, the individual performances, the atmosphere. Everything. It quite deservedly drew record U.S. television audiences, in Spanish-language and English-language. Until the final numbers for Mexico-England and USA-Belgium […]
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World Cup TV ratings explosion: USMNT support is contagious (El Tri, too)
The viewing numbers for Wednesday’s USA-Bosnia & Herzegovina match are staggering: 24,429,000 on Fox and 9.1 million on Telemundo for a total of 33.5 million. The first four USMNT matches have averaged 26,501,500 and that average will go up a little. Monday’s TV audience for USA-Belgium game in Seattle could top 40,000,000 (combined audience for […]