The US Men’s National Team’s match against Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday was a historic event, drawing in a massive audience. Preliminary numbers from Nielsen report that the broadcast on Fox averaged 24.43 million viewers, with the broadcast peaking at 31.88 million late in the game.
A New Record
This was enough to make it the largest English-language audience for a soccer broadcast in US history, edging out the previous record holder – the 2015 Women’s World Cup final between the US and Japan – which averaged 22.32 million viewers.
Telemundo’s Spanish telecast of the game brought in 9.1 million viewers for a combined total of 33.53 million, easily a record for a soccer match broadcast in the United States.
Original reporting: Fox News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
