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While Fox World Cup ratings fell, the English-Spanish ratings gap grew; ad spend data also shows language divides
The English-Spanish adults 18-49 ratings gap grew from 26 percent (in 2010 and 2014) to 40 percent this year.
Amazon will stream a new documentary on France’s second World Cup championship
The documentary premieres this week in France, but the rest of the world will have to wait until this fall to watch it
The World Cup Final drew the lowest U.S. overnight rating since 2002, but was also the earliest final since 2002
The 8.3 overnight rating was down 14 percent from a 9.7 in 2014, but only slightly down from the 8.6 in 2006 and 2010.
ESPN’s Lego highlights of the World Cup final included everything from VAR to trophy celebrations
Without full highlight rights to this tournament, ESPN had to get creative, and their Lego highlights Sunday were particularly good.
FIFA wants broadcasters to show fewer shots of female fans, says sexism has been a bigger World Cup problem than racism
FIFA apparently wants broadcasters to cut down on the crowd shots of female fans.
Fox seems happy with World Cup ad revenue haul despite having to offer make-goods
Facing a World Cup in a tough time zone without the United States, Fox is still generating plenty of ad revenue.
Saturday marked the most-watched day of World Cup quarterfinals since at least 1990
Croatia-Russia averaged 6,317,000 viewers on Fox, the best World Cup quarterfinal numbers in the U.S. in almost three decades.
With Argentina and Portugal losing, Fox won’t have their dream Messi versus Ronaldo quarterfinal
Fox clearly wanted both of them to advance, and now they have neither.
Telemundo apologizes, suspends two hosts for racist gestures after South Korea’s win over Germany
The hosts apologized on-air today.
Twitter can’t get over how much Fox World Cup match analyst Tony Meola sounds like Troy Aikman
This similarity has been a running theme this tournament, but was particularly noticeable during Tuesday's Nigeria-Argentina match.
Here’s Andres Cantor calling all the goals from Mexico’s 2-1 win over South Korea
Mexico looked great again today, too.
Streaming measurement provider says global peak for World Cup has already passed Super Bowl record by 40 percent
Conviva estimated a peak of 7.7 million global viewers during Argentina-Croatia, up 40 percent over their previous record of 5.5 million during this year's Super Bowl.
Fox shakes up World Cup coverage mid-tournament, axing Lothar Matthäus and adding Martin O’Neill and Clarence Seedorf
Matthäus has been dropped mid-tournament "due to schedule conflicts."
Unsurprisingly, Landon Donovan’s Mexico ad campaigns have led to Twitter backlash and a statement of clarification
Who could have foreseen this drawing backlash?
FS1’s Jorge Perez-Navarro dropped a magnificent “Boom goes the dynamite!” for Denmark’s opening goal
It's a great call, with or without context.
BBC World Cup feed goes out after France-Australia game
Some viewers seemed to prefer a test pattern instead of Phil Neville.
Telemundo’s World Cup coverage will be streamed on NBC Sports app
By putting Telemundo’s coverage on the NBC Sports app, it potentially brings adds people to their Spanish language coverage.
UBS runs 10,000 World Cup simulations including Italy for some reason, Bloomberg writes about it
This UBS report was...not impressive. But that didn't stop Bloomberg from covering it.
Four of Fox’s six World Cup crews will call matches from LA studios, eight of 12 commentators will be American
ESPN sent five announcing teams to Brazil in 2014; Fox is sending just two to Russia, with the other teams calling matches off monitors in Los Angeles.
Fox will partner with Twitter, Snapchat for highlights, original content at 2018 World Cup
Fox will produce a live show on Twitter and a Publisher Story on Snapchat, while also distributing highlights and interview clips to the platforms.
The FIFA World Cup Draw wasn’t much of a draw for FS1
Airing while most people were either at work, going to work or getting up wasn’t ideal for the World Cup Draw.
The next three World Cups could be a disaster for Fox Sports and American soccer
The USMNT screwing up qualifying was a significant blow.
Syrian announcer breaks down in tears as team advances to World Cup qualifying playoff
"Who scored? Somah! It had to be Somah! It had to be Somah! The equalizing goal! Pardon me! I've lost it! No one can stop them!"
In 2018 World Cup, Fox plans to cover Mexican team “as if it’s a second home team”
One big change Fox plans to bring to World Cup coverage is more focus on the Mexican team.