{"id":2345,"date":"2025-12-10T04:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:48:04","slug":"2026-world-cup-draw-on-fox-was-most-watched-in-u-s-english-language-tv-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"2026 World Cup Draw On FOX Was Most-Watched In U.S. English-Language TV History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>It was a record-setting FIFA World Cup draw for FOX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>With 1.23 million viewers tuned into FOX&#8217;s broadcast of The Final Draw on Friday, it became the most-watched Final Draw in English-language TV history in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>The average of 1.23 million viewers is up +242%\u00a0from the FIFA World Cup 2022 Final Draw on FS1 on April 1, 2022(12 p.m. ET with 360,000 viewers). The broadcast peaked in the 1:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET quarter-hour with 1,358,000 viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>FOX&#8217;s preshow drew in 913,000 viewers, up +813%\u00a0from the FIFA World Cup 2022\u00a0Final Draw Preshow on FS1, and the postshow raked in 710,000 viewers, up +473%\u00a0from the FIFA World Cup 2022\u00a0Final Draw Postshow on FS1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>The Final Draw placed all 48 teams participating in next summer&#8217;s FIFA World Cup into their respective groups. The United States, one of the three host nations, was placed into Group D with Paraguay, Australia and a country to be named later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>The 2026 FIFA World Cup will broadcast on FOX starting June 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a><i>Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?\u00a0<\/i><i><u>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/u><\/i><i> and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY It was a record-setting FIFA World Cup draw for FOX. With 1.23 million viewers tuned into FOX&#8217;s broadcast of The Final Draw on Friday, it became the most-watched Final Draw in English-language TV history in the U.S. The average of 1.23 million viewers is up +242%\u00a0from the FIFA World Cup 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}