The big audiences for the 2026 men’s World Cup on Fox Sports have extended to the programming around the matches.
Fox’s pregame show has more than doubled its audience from the 2022 World Cup, according to Nielsen figures for the first 12 days of the tournament. Through the second leg of the group stage, which concluded June 23, the pregame show is averaging a shade over 2.4 million viewers, a 117 percent improvement vs. the same point in 2022 (1.11 million).
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The pregame is even running slightly ahead of match coverage on Fox Sports in terms of percentage
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