Spain’s victory over Argentina in Sunday’s 2026 FIFA World Cup final broke records in the United States: an average of 38,937,000 viewers watched it on Fox, making it the most-watched soccer broadcast in American television history and the most-watched FIFA World Cup final ever in the U.S., according to Nielsen. Meanwhile, on the Spanish side,
The final 35-day cross-platform ratings for the 2025-2026 TV season are finally available, now that the official end of the TV season is more than a month away. According to Nielsen’s 35-day multiplatform linear and streaming ratings, Netflix’s “Stranger Things” remained the most-watched non-sports series of the TV season, with 32.9 million viewers, followed by
Just one day after Fox Sports’ coverage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup semi-finals broke records, they did it again. Wednesday’s match between Argentina and England averaged 15.063 million viewers on Fox, making it the most-watched FIFA Men’s World Cup semi-final match in English-speaking history. This surpassed Tuesday’s showdown between Spain and France, which averaged
The July 11 UFC main stream featuring the 69-second fight between Conor McGregor and Max Holloway averaged 6.5 million viewers in the U.S. and Latin America on Paramount+. That combined statistic is according to Nielsen in the US and Adobe Analytic + Channel Partner in Latin America. The two-and-a-half-hour stream peaked at 8 million simultaneous
The 2026 FIFA World Cup continues to break records on American English-language television. Tuesday’s match between Spain and France averaged 11.462 million viewers this Tuesday on Fox, making it the most-watched FIFA Men’s World Cup semi-final broadcast in the history of English-language television in the United States. That record audience saw Spain eliminate France and
Fox’s coverage of Monday night’s World Cup match between the United States men’s national soccer team and Belgium on Monday, July 6, drew record ratings, averaging 33,086,000 viewers, making it the most-watched soccer broadcast in U.S. history. These are numbers at the NFL level for the confrontation between Belgium and USMNT. In fact, this made