– The audience began at 18.2 million viewers at 7:00PM ET and peaked at a tournament-high 30.1 million from 8:30-8:45 PM ET. – 43.2 million viewers watched all or part of last night’s final. – Last night’s match delivered the most-watched telecast since the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament championship game on CBS (28.3 million, 4/6/15). – Last night’s match average audience exceeded every game of the NBA Finals, the 2014-15 broadcast season average of every show in primetime, including Sunday Night Football, and the primetime average of the Sochi Olympic Winter Games. – The match beat the audience for the 2011 Women’s World Cup Final, which also featured USA vs. – USA-Japan also shatters prior mark for a women’s soccer match, the 1999 Women’s World Cup Final (17,975,000) by +41%. history, obliterating the previous mark of 18,220,000 set by USA-Portugal during last year’s World Cup group stage match (6/22/15) by +39%. – The 2015 USA-Japan final is the most-watched soccer match in U.S. The match posted a prodigious 12.9 household rating/share with 25.4 million viewers, and peaked at 30.9 million between 8:30-8:45 PM ET. The USA’s emphatic 5-2 victory over Japan in the FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2015™ final, America’s first Women’s World Cup championship since 1999, is the most- watched soccer match in U.S.
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Update: here’s the full press release from Fox Sports: Update: Telemundo averaged 1.3 million (1.27M) so USA-Japan with a combined 26.7 million is the most-watched soccer match ever in the United States.įox says the match peaked at 30.1 million from 8:30-8:45p ET, and that 43.2 million watched at least part of the match. But look for Telemundo to add over a million viewers (it was right around 1 million viewers on Telemundo in the preliminary numbers). Last year’s USA-Portugal men’s match averaged 17.3 million on ESPN but added 9.2 million with Univision for a total of 26.5 million.
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