{"id":280932,"date":"2026-04-22T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280932\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:05:08","slug":"fox-ratings-soar-for-acura-grand-prix-of-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280932\/","title":{"rendered":"FOX Ratings Soar for Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NTT INDYCAR SERIES on FOX continues to ride a wave of momentum, as ratings for the telecast of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sunday, April 19 increased 130 percent from last year\u2019s Long Beach race.<\/p>\n<p>FOX drew 1,269,000 viewers for the iconic street race, up from 552,000 in 2025. It was the most-watched Long Beach race since 2008, the year of reunification for open-wheel racing in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Viewership peaked at 1,527,000 viewers as Alex Palou drove to his third victory of the season in his No. 10 OpenAI Chip Ganassi Racing Honda.<\/p>\n<p>The strong rating continued a trend of increases after five of 18 races this season. An average of 1,239,000 viewers are watching NTT INDYCAR SERIES races on FOX, up 44 percent from 2025 (863,000).<\/p>\n<p>Up next for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and FOX is the Sonsio Grand Prix on Saturday, May 9 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. Live coverage starts at 4:30 p.m. ET on FOX, FOX One and the FOX Sports app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NTT INDYCAR SERIES on FOX continues to ride a wave of momentum, as ratings for the telecast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-280932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}