{"id":32026,"date":"2025-12-10T02:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/historic-viewing-2026-world-cup-draw-breaks-records-as-most-watched-event-on-fox-in-u-s-english-language-tv\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:18:33","slug":"historic-viewing-2026-world-cup-draw-breaks-records-as-most-watched-event-on-fox-in-u-s-english-language-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/historic-viewing-2026-world-cup-draw-breaks-records-as-most-watched-event-on-fox-in-u-s-english-language-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Viewing: 2026 World Cup Draw Breaks Records as Most-Watched Event on FOX in U.S. English-Language TV!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rewritten Content:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This marked a record viewership for FOX during a FIFA World Cup event. On Friday, &#8220;The Final Draw&#8221; aired on FOX, attracting 1.23 million viewers, making it the highest-rated Final Draw in the history of U.S. English-language television.<\/p>\n<p>This average of 1.23 million represented a remarkable 242% increase from the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final Draw, which garnered only 360,000 viewers on FS1 in April 2022. The broadcast hit its highest viewership during a peak window between 1:45 PM and 2:00 PM ET, where it reached 1,358,000 viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-show attracted 913,000 viewers, reflecting an impressive 813% rise compared to the previous year\u2019s pre-show on FS1. Meanwhile, the post-show garnered 710,000 viewers, up 473% from 2022&#8217;s post-show.<\/p>\n<p>During the final draw, all 48 teams set to compete in next summer&#8217;s FIFA World Cup were assigned to their respective groups. The United States, one of the three host nations, found itself in Group D along with Paraguay, Australia, and additional teams yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be broadcast on FOX beginning June 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fan Take: This news is significant for soccer enthusiasts as it illustrates a growing interest in the World Cup, which can lead to greater support for the sport in the U.S. The record viewership shows potential for a boom in soccer culture and engagement as the event approaches.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewritten Content: This marked a record viewership for FOX during a FIFA World Cup event. On Friday, &#8220;The Final Draw&#8221; aired on FOX, attracting 1.23 million viewers, making it the highest-rated Final Draw in the history of U.S. English-language television. This average of 1.23 million represented a remarkable 242% increase from the 2022 FIFA World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[870,913,1428,7657,3962,40,4486,857,7656,46,3129,45,4417,192,42],"class_list":{"0":"post-32026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-breaks","9":"tag-cup","10":"tag-draw","11":"tag-englishlanguage","12":"tag-event","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-fox","15":"tag-historic","16":"tag-mostwatched","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-records","19":"tag-soccer","20":"tag-u-s","21":"tag-viewing","22":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}