Fox Sports 1 Scores With Women’s World Cup Coverage

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The U.S. Women’s National Team continues to kick up big ratings for Fox Sports 1.

Last night’s USA-Columbia Women’s World Cup game, which the USA won 2-0 to move on to face China this Friday, drew 4.7 million viewers, a FS1 record audience for a soccer game, the network said Tuesday.

The game upended the 3.3 million viewers FS1 garnered with its USA-Australia game last week in finishing as the most watched soccer match on cable since last year’s World Cup, said network officials.

Overall the game is the third most-watched program in FOX Sports 1 history, trailing only Game 4 (5.1 million) and Game 5 (4.9 million) of the 2014 National League Championship Series featuring the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants, said the network.

On the digital front, the USA - Colombia game delivered FOX Sports GO over 120,000 unique streamers, making it the highest viewed simulcast in the app’s history, besting the 2014 World Series Game 7 simulcast by +17% (103,000 uniques), said Fox Sports.

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.