{"id":716718,"date":"2026-06-21T04:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716718\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:11:10","slug":"20-68-million-watched-friday-afternoons-u-s-world-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716718\/","title":{"rendered":"20.68 million watched Friday afternoon’s U.S. World Cup win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suddenly, soccer sells.<\/p>\n

Friday afternoon\u2019s match between the United States and Australia from Lumen Field in Seattle generated a combined audience of more than 20.68 million on Fox, Telemundo, and Peacock.<\/p>\n

Fox announced preliminary viewership of 14.781 million<\/a> for the match that began at 3:00 p.m. ET on Friday. According to NBC, the Spanish-language broadcast on Telemundo and Peacock averaged 5.9 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both numbers are preliminary. The official numbers likely will be higher.<\/p>\n

Via Matt Clapp of Awful Announcing, the Fox broadcast was the most-watched show on a Friday afternoon<\/a> since the U.S. faced England in the 2022 World Cup. That match averaged 15.38 million viewers.<\/p>\n

The audience for U.S. vs. Australia on Fox peaked from 4:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET, with 19.169 million. That\u2019s more than the 18.86 million peak for the U.S. vs. Paraguay, which had a higher total average on Fox, at 18.037 million.<\/p>\n

The U.S. finishes group play on Thursday, June 25, against Turkey. The match starts at 10:00 p.m. ET. With the U.S. already clinching the group crown (and with Turkey eliminated), the match is essentially a friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suddenly, soccer sells. Friday afternoon\u2019s match between the United States and Australia from Lumen Field in Seattle generated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-716718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}