USA Win Powers Fox to Women's World Cup Record

By Kent Gibbons
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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The USA team's 3-1 win over Australia in a FIFA Women's World Cup group-stage opening match in Winnipeg on Monday drew 3.31 million viewers and was the most-watched game ever in the group stages of a Women's World Cup. It also set a record for a soccer match on Fox Sports 1, the programmer said.

That victory for the USA squad, in its first group-stage match in the 2015 tournament, topped the previously known record of 2.457 million who watched USA-Denmark on June 19, 1999, Fox said, citing available Nielsen records.

It said the audience was more than three times bigger than watched the first U.S. match in the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup (1.074 million).

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Kent Gibbons
Kent Gibbons

Kent has been a journalist, writer and editor at Multichannel News since 1994 and with Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He is a good point of contact for anything editorial at the publications and for Nexttv.com. Before joining Multichannel News he had been a newspaper reporter with publications including The Washington Times, The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal and North County News.