{"id":86237,"date":"2025-08-21T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86237\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:53:07","slug":"premier-league-kicks-off-to-record-opening-weekend-on-nbc-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86237\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Kicks Off to Record Opening Weekend on NBC Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBack of the net! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nbc-sports\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc-sports_1\" data-tag=\"nbc-sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Sports<\/a> is knee-sliding towards the corner flag as the opening weekend of the 2025-26 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/english-premier-league\/\" id=\"auto-tag_english-premier-league_1\" data-tag=\"english-premier-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">English Premier League<\/a> season was the most-watched ever in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAccording to data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics, the Premier League opening weekend averaged 850,000 viewers across six matches aired live on NBC\/Peacock, USA Network and NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sports\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sports_1\" data-tag=\"sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a>\u2018 digital platforms (in the period Aug. 15-17). The figure is up 4 percent from the 820,000 viewers from the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSunday\u2019s big match between Manchester United and London-based powerhouse Arsenal, which aired on NBC, Peacock and NBC Sports\u2019 digital platforms, averaged a healthy 2 million viewers, making it the most-watched opening weekend match on record in the U.S., as well as the second most-watched match in the U.S. ever, just behind the 2.1 million viewers who watch Manchester City-Arsenal on March 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOnce Telemundo\u2019s Spanish-language coverage is included, the United-Arsenal game boasted an audience of 2.3 million, just behind the 2.6 million Spanish-language inclusive audience for that March 2024 City-Arsenal game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSince securing a $2.7 billion six-year extension to its U.S. rights deal, the Premier League continues to be a huge success for NBCUniversal, driving subscriptions to Peacock, and seeing solid and growing audiences for the company across broadcast, streaming and digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back of the net! NBC Sports is knee-sliding towards the corner flag as the opening weekend of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,5810,77,17228,561,82],"class_list":["post-86237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-english-premier-league","tag-international","tag-nbc-sports","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}