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The overtime World Cup final drew 16.78 million viewers on Fox Sunday, the most-watched World Cup telecast in English-language television history. The previous World Cup finals telecast record was set in 1994 when Italy beat Brazil.
Defending champion France’s 2-1 win over England on Saturday, which started at 2 p.m. ET, was seen by 13.5 million, including 8.3 million on Fox, 3.1 million on Spanish-language Telemundo, 560,000 on Fox digital platforms and 1.5 million on the Telemundo and Peacock streaming services. Argentina’s penalty-kicks victory over the Netherlands on Friday, which began at 2 p.m. ET, was viewed by 11.1 million, including 5.78 million on Fox, 3.1 million on Telemundo, 665,000 on Fox digital and 1.53 million on Peacock and Telemundo streaming.
This year’s Quarter Finals round of U.S. Spanish-language coverage on Telemundo and Peacock averaged 4.0 million, up 54% vs. 2018’s Quarter Finals.
Through the quarterfinals round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, an estimated $213.6 million in national TV advertising was placed on the Fox TV networks and NBCUniversal’s Telemundo channels so far, according to iSpot.tv. This has resulted in a collective 8.4 billion impressions. Additional viewing also took place on NBCU’s streaming platform, Peacock. Event-wide viewing and advertising-revenue estimates for the streaming platform were not readily available.
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Fox said its coverage of the round of 16 match, which started at 10 a.m. ET on Saturday, was viewed by an average of 12.9 million. That included almost 600,000 on its digital streaming services. Telemundo said its Spanish-language coverage was seen by 3.58 million, including 1.26 million for its digital streams on Telemundo and Peacock.
The match drew in 9 million total viewers while the U.S.-England game brought in 4.7 million viewers.
The move of the Men’s World Cup from its traditional summer berth to fall doesn’t seem to have hurt TV viewing in the United States — and the presence of the U.S. team in the tournament has definitely helped. Through the first 31 group stage matches, Fox Sports is averaging 3.15 million viewers per game — a 44 percent improvement over the same time frame for the 2018 World Cup (2.19 million). Telemundo’s Spanish-language coverage is also drawing nearly 2.6 million viewers per contest on air and on Peacock and Telemundo streaming platforms.
The match, which kicked off at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, was seen by 15,377,000 viewers on Fox, the most for a U.S. English-language men’s soccer telecast. The figure was 6% above the 14.51 million for Brazil’s penalty-kicks win over Italy in the 1994 final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., a Sunday 3:30 p.m. ET start that July 17 viewed by 14,510,000 on ABC, according to Fox.
For the first two days of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar — Sunday and Monday — Fox and NBCU networks pulled in a collective $9 million in national TV advertising, according to iSpot.tv estimates — higher than the $6 million spend of four years ago for that same period for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. This year, Fox networks came in at $4.5 million in national TV advertising for the English-language airings of the soccer matches, while NBCUniversal TV networks/platforms — Telemundo, Peacock, and Telemundo digital websites — tallied $4.3 million over the same period for the Spanish-language version of the event, Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2022.
About 20.5 million American adults plan to bet a total of $1.8 billion on the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, according to a survey by the American Gaming Association, a gambling industry trade group. Of those, 48% intend to place their bets online and 29% said they plan to bet casually with friends. Meanwhile, 23% plan to bet at a physical casino sportsbook and 20% plan to place a bet with a bookie.
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