Univision won the Sunday ratings battle, with CONCACAF soccer paving the way. Univision posted a 0.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. In second was ABC at 0.6/4. 

Aqui y Ahora shot up 67% to 0.5 on Univision and Nosotros Los Guapos scored a 0.6. The CONCACAF Nations League Final soccer championship got a 0.8 and 0.7 across two hours. The U.S. played Mexico. 

ABC had an America’s Funniest Home Videos rerun before the season starters for Celebrity Family Feud at 0.8, The Chase at 0.6 and To Tell the Truth at 0.4. 

NBC had a 0.4/2 and CBS a 0.3/2. NBC had U.S. championship gymnastics for two hours at 0.3 and 0.4. An America’s Got Talent repeat followed. 

On CBS, 60 Minutes got a level 0.4. The 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors scored a 0.3 and led into an NCIS: New Orleans rerun. The Kennedy Center Honors was postponed from December. Gloria Estefan hosted. The 42nd annual event got a 0.6 in December 2019. 

Fox was at 0.2/1. Bless the Harts got a flat 0.2, as did The Moodys, which lost a tenth from its last airing. Fox had reruns in between. 

Telemundo got a 0.2/1 as well. Two hours of Exatlon Estados Unidos notched a flat 0.2 and movie Backdraft 2 followed. 

The CW posted a 0.1/1. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman both earned a flat 0.1. 

CBS Sports said it has reached a multiplatform agreement for exclusive U.S. English-language rights to Concacaf national team soccer properties, Concacaf Qualifiers for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, the Concacaf Men’s Nations League and the Concacaf Women’s Nations League.

As part of the deal, ViacomCBS’ streaming service Paramount Plus will carry more than 200 Concacaf national team matches live, including at least 80 Concacaf Women’s World Cup Qualifying matches and more than 100 Concacaf Women’s Nations League contests. Select matches will also be available to air on CBS Sports linear platforms.

This is the latest in a flurry of soccer deals the streaming service has reached in the past several months. In March, Paramount Plus said it acquired the rights to air nearly 80 Concacaf Men’s World Cup Qualifiers for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and landed U.S. rights to Italy’s Serie A matches.  Earlier the programmer struck rights deals with the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, next season’s Europa Conference League, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), and the top leagues in both Brazil and Argentina Brasilero Serie A and Liga Profesional de Fútbol. 

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“We are excited to continue the expansion of CBS Sports’ soccer portfolio across both the men’s and women’s game, and look forward to delivering competitive Concacaf national team action on Paramount Plus and CBS Sports platforms,” CBS Sports Digital EVP and general manager Jeffrey Gerttula said in a press release. “Paramount Plus has truly become a year-round soccer destination, attracting a growing fanbase that’s hungry to watch the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams along with a variety of international soccer competitions.”

Coverage will begin in June with the Concacaf Men’s Nations League Finals in Denver. Additional coverage specifics around the June 3 Semifinal matches of United States vs. Honduras and Mexico vs. Costa Rica, along with details of the Final and Third-Place matches on June 6 will be announced in the coming weeks.

“We are extremely pleased to begin this new partnership with CBS Sports which starts with our first ever Concacaf Nations League Finals and includes our game changing new women’s national team competitions,” said Concacaf General Secretary Philippe Moggio  in a press release. “CBS Sports has an excellent track record of delivering outstanding live sports coverage, and their new Paramount Plus platform is increasingly popular with fans. We look forward to working together to elevate men’s and women’s national team football in the Concacaf region.”

CBS Sports will continue coverage with the 2022-2023 Concacaf Men’s Nations League and will carry the inaugural Concacaf Women’s Nations League beginning in 2023. Coverage plans for the Concacaf Women’s World Cup Qualifiers will be announced ahead of the competition beginning in the fall.

Fox Sports have added English-language rights to the Concacaf Champions League as part of a broader deal between the two companies announced Monday.

As part of the deal, Fox Sports will air the Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League over the next three years, as well as the Concacaf Women’s Olympic Qualifiers -- which begin Tuesday (Jan. 28) on FS2 -- and the Men’s Olympic Qualifiers. Fox Sports also extends its Gold Cup coverage through 2023, according to the company.

“FOX Sports is excited to further its commitment to the sport of soccer through this new agreement with Concacaf,” said Mark Silverman, Fox Sports President, National Networks in a statement. “The U.S. Women’s National Team captivated a country with its World Cup victory last summer, and we’re honored to showcase this inspirational team once again as they begin their Olympic journey this week. Furthermore, we look forward to offering more men’s soccer, including the next two editions of the Gold Cup and the U.S. Men’s National Team Olympic Qualifiers.”

Added Concacaf President Victor Montagliani: “Fox Sports is an excellent partner for Concacaf and we are extremely pleased they have invested in our rights across so many competitions, beginning with what should be an exciting Women’s Olympic Qualifiers. They have an outstanding track record of delivering high-quality football coverage that reaches big audiences making this great news for fans, international teams across the region and clubs competing in our Champions League.”

Fox Sports secured multi-platform media rights to the 2016 Copa America Centenario soccer tournament this June in the United States, featuring the national teams from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the United States among 16 teams deciding the champion of the Americas. Copa America is considered the oldest international continental soccer tournament and has never before been held outside of South America. This year’s event is a special edition celebrating the tournament’s first 100 years. The U.S. Men’s National Team opens the tournament on Friday, June 3, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., with the final set for Sunday, June 26, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Fox said. Spanish-language TV rights in this country are held by Univision.

Along with the U.S. Men’s National Team, TV draws include Lionel Messi (Argentina), Neymar Jr. (Brazil) and Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez (Mexico), who are expected to play in what is the biggest men's soccer tournament hosted on U.S. soil since the 1994 FIFA World Cup. 

David Nathanson, the head of business operations at Fox Sports, said in a release: “We are incredibly excited to add the Copa America Centenario to our ever-expanding portfolio of elite, world-class soccer events. With the Copa America Centenario in June, the Confederations Cup next year, followed by the FIFA World Cup in 2018 and FIFA Women's World Cup in 2019, Fox Sports is the home to most major national team tournaments, to go along with an unrivaled portfolio of club competitions and leagues from the UEFA Champions League to Major League Soccer to the German Bundesliga."

Fox Sports plans to televise all 32 matches live across 10 venues nationwide from June 3 to June 26, with matches appearing on Fox broadcast network, FS1 and FS2, the programmer said, along with pregame, postgame and other complementary programming. Digitally, all games are available on Fox Sports GO, Fox Soccer 2Go and on desktops at www.FOXSportsGO.com. Full schedule commitments and coverage plans are expected at a later date.

The tournament begins with a round-robin stage featuring four groups of four teams, with Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the United States the top-seeded teams in each group, Fox said, meaning each team will be presented a minimum of three times. 

The rest of the groups, comprised of eight more South American teams (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela) in the CONMEBOL association and four more teams from the United States and Mexico’s CONCACAF region (Costa Rica, Haiti, Jamaica and Panama), will be decided at the Copa America Centenario Official Draw to be held in New York City on Sunday, Feb. 21. The top two teams from each group advances to the quarterfinals of an ensuing single-game knockout phase.

As a prelude to its upcoming coverage of the Women's World Cup from Canada next year, Fox Sports will present all of the CONCACAF qualifiers, kicking off in mid-October.

All told, the English-language rights-holder in the U.S. to FIFA properties from 2015 through 2022 will present all 16 matches, including those involving the top-ranked American.side, which was the runner-up to Japan in FIFA' 2011 tournament. This will mark the first time that the entire CONCACAF Women's Championship will be televised, with matches airing live on Fox Sports 1 and 2, as well as streamed live and on-demand via Fox Soccer2Go and Fox Sports Go.

The top three of the eight CONCACAF squads -- North America (United States, Mexico), Central America (Guatemala, Costa Rica) and the Caribbean (Haiti, Martinique, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) -- move onto the 2015 Women's World Cup. Canada as the host nation already has a berth and is not part of this competition.

“We are very excited about the opportunity to showcase some of the best in women’s soccer,” said Fox Sports executive producer, FIFA World Cup on Fox, David Neal. “Our dedication to the growth of this sport in America has never been more evident than by the extraordinary coverage we have on tap for this year’s CONCACAF Women’s Championship.”

The action starts Oct. 15 with doubleheader live from Kansas City’s Sporting Park on FS2 as Guatemala takes on Haiti at 6 p.m. (ET), followed at 8:30 p.m. by the U.S. Women’s National Team opener against Trinidad and Tobago live on the network.  An encore is scheduled for FS1 later that night.

The Mexican women’s national team kicks off its World Cup qualifying hopes one day later, against Costa Rica at 8:30 p.m. on FS2.

The U.S., which stumbled to Mexico back in 2010 and had to take a circuitous route to qualify for the 2011 World Cup, headlines the FS1 action on Friday, Oct. 17 facing Guatemala live from Toyota Park in Chicago at 9 p.m. (ET) Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and netminder Hope Solo, who is expected to play despite a pending domestic violence case, conclude their qualifying matches live against Haiti in Washington D.C.’s RFK Stadium on Monday, Oct. 20 on FS1 at 7:30 p.m.

The semifinals are on tap on Friday, Oct. 25, trailed by the third-place match and final on Sunday, Oct. 26,  both live on FS1. Pregame coverage begins in-studio before each USWNT match 30 minutes prior to kickoff. See below for the complete schedule.