5 best games during 2026 World Cup, Telemundo+Fox:
1) Final: Spain-Argentina: 62.8 million viewers
2) RD16: USA-Belgium: 46M
3) RD16: England-Mexico: 44.9M
4) RD32: USA-Bosnia: 36.2M
5) QF: England-Norway: 34.8M
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Austin Karp
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Austin Karp
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Media reporter for @SBJ. Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech. Sports documentary nut job. Rapidly declining pickup basketball player.
Charlotte, NC Katılım Eylül 2009
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.@TSN_PR says the Spain-Argentina World Cup Final averaged 6.4 million viewers in Canada. Most-watched World Cup match on record.
Canada's population is 41.4 million people.
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Early numbers won't be true indicator once again.
Hearing a HUGE push from out-of-home audience for the final will push preliminary numbers 10%-14%. That's on par with gaherings for U.S. games.
Numbers later today.
Mark J. Burns@markjburns88
.@Ourand_Puck reporting the World Cup final peaked at 47 MILLION viewers on Fox. Average audience of 37m-40m viewers. (based on prelim numbers)
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How MLB worked with FIFA to capitalize on World Cup sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/…
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It's been great to see Rebecca Lowe get so much praise for her work on Fox. I did a 2500-word profile on her back in January for @SBJ where she spoke about what doing the World Cup meant for her.
If you missed it, the piece is below.
Richard Deitsch@richarddeitsch
NEW: My first profile for @SBJ is someone I have immense professional respect for — NBC's Rebecca Lowe. sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/…
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Austin Karp retweetledi
MLS' commissioner search is down to 3: LAFC's Larry Berg, 49ers Enterprises' Paraag Marathe, and ex-Fox exec David Nathanson.
All have soccer ties — two hold stakes in @MLS clubs, one chairs Leeds United. Owner presentations coming soon; decision possible as early as next month.
Puck’s John Ourand first reported the names of the three finalists on Friday.
MORE: ow.ly/XROf50Zp3T7
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Just happened to come across @FirstTake on the TV. No sound.
But seeing Stephen A Smith and Mad Dog break down the biggest soccer game on the planet alongside a lifelong fan of the game in Roger Bennett feels like an SNL sketch.
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St. Louis led all local markets for the MLB All-Star Game, followed by host market Philadelphia, Kansas City, Detroit, and Milwaukee
Mike Mazzeo@MazzNYC
Fox delivers best MLB All-Star Game audience since 2018 @AustinKarp sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/…
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Football season political ads in Maine (and other key election spots) are gonna be SUPER fun this fall
Peter Hamby@PeterHamby
Democrats in Maine are currently being outspent more than 2:1 on TV Pro-Susan Collins PAC (Pine Tree Results) just reserved another $3.5 mil GOP spend so far: $93 million Dem spend so far: $42 million A reminder, too, that Platner was having serious fundraising problems
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Pretty good average for a main card that had its main event last 1 minute, 9 seconds.
Just below the UFC White House card (7 million)
Same audience that Mavericks-Warriors got on Christmas Day on ABC/ESPN in 5pm ET window
Adam Stern@A_S12
.@ParamountPlus averaged 6.1 million viewers in the U.S. for Saturday night's #UFC329 main card, peaking at 8.296 million concurrent streams.
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ESPN enjoying MLB flexibility in new media deal as second half begins (with ESPN getting lone window tonight)
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Hearing that the MLB Home Run Derby drew around 5.3 million viewers on Netflix on Wednesday night.
That would be the lowest audience for the Derby since 2003 (5.2 million).
Netflix's Derby debut would be -7% or so from last year on ESPN (5.7M), and down from 5.5M two years ago
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RT @SBJ: SBJ EXCLUSIVE: Call of Duty is making its Fanatics Fest debut, using the sports-centric event to unveil more of this fall’s Modern…
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Netflix has MLB's Home Run Derby for at least two more seasons, but got off to a slower start with this year's debut number
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@davidubben There are like 17 college football fanbases this could apply to as well
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Bundesliga finishes off media deal in U.S., going with Telemundo/Peacock for Spanish-language rights
Combined with Versant, Bundesliga’s new deal is essentially flat in $$ compared to prior deal with ESPN sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/…
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