{"id":28919,"date":"2011-06-30T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/main\/?p=28919"},"modified":"2011-06-30T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:50:02","slug":"ratings-roundup-gold-cup-scores-for-fox-soccer-u-s-open-bombs-out-on-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2011\/06\/30\/ratings-roundup-gold-cup-scores-for-fox-soccer-u-s-open-bombs-out-on-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings Roundup: Gold Cup Scores for Fox Soccer; U.S. Open Bombs Out on NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CONCACAF Gold Cup pulled in more than just Spanish-speaking viewers last Saturday, as Fox Soccer\u2019s English coverage drew the largest audience in network history. Saturday\u2019s Mexico-United States Gold Cup final <a href=\"http:\/\/fangsbites.com\/2011\/06\/fox-soccer-crows-about-gold-cup-final-ratings\/\">drew a 1.43 household rating and 954,000 viewers<\/a> on FOX Soccer, up 159% from the 2009 final, which featured the same two teams (369,000). The audience was more than double the previous record set by a Chelsea vs. Liverpool match in February.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fox Soccer lagged significantly behind Univision, which drew the third largest audience in network history for a soccer match (trailing 2010 World Cup Final and Mexico-Argentina Round of 16 match). Overall, the Gold Cup final drew approximately 8.9 million viewers, up over 50% from 2009 (appx. 5.8M)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026The NHL Draft drew record numbers both North and South of the border. Versus <a href=\"http:\/\/puckthemedia.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/28\/nhl-draft-coverage-up-on-versus\/\">drew 246,000 viewers<\/a> for the prime time telecast on Friday night, up 22% from last year\u2019s Draft (201,000 viewers). In Canada, TSN and RDS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/story\/?id=370183\">averaged a combined 1.5 million viewers<\/a>, according to overnights. TSN&#8217;s audience of 1.15 million grew 46% compared to 2010 numbers, with RDS up 24%&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026The final numbers are in and the U.S. Open was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsmediawatch.com\/2011\/06\/u-s-open-ratings-viewership-down-for-all-four-rounds\/\">officially a bomb for NBC this year<\/a>. As previously reported, the final round was the lowest-rated Sunday ever, but the three preceding rounds were no better. Third round action earned a 3.1 rating and 4.574 million viewers, the lowest rated Saturday U.S. Open window since at least 1981 (ratings prior to 1982 were not available), and the least-viewed since 2006 (4.354 millino). The second round drew a 1.4 and 1.832 million viewers, the lowest since at least 1997 (numbers prior to 1998 were not available). Finally, first round coverage drew a 1.4 and 1.825 million, the second-lowest since at least 1997 (numbers prior to 1998 were not available).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CONCACAF Gold Cup pulled in more than just Spanish-speaking viewers last Saturday, as Fox Soccer\u2019s English coverage drew the largest audience in network history. Saturday\u2019s Mexico-United States Gold Cup [&hellip;]\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2011\/06\/30\/ratings-roundup-gold-cup-scores-for-fox-soccer-u-s-open-bombs-out-on-nbc\/\" class=\"more\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5067,5068,5059,2578,2417],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}