Sunday’s Manchester United-Chelsea Match Averages 1.29 Million Viewers; Landon Donovan’s Final Regular-Season Game on Saturday (Seattle Sounders-LA Galaxy) Averages 699,000 Viewers; NBC Sports Group Has Televised 7 of Premier League’s 10 Most-Watched Live Matches in U.S.
NBC set Premier League and MLS viewership records with a pair of match telecasts last weekend.
Last Sunday’s Manchester United-Chelsea match – a 1-1 tie at Old Trafford – averaged 1.29 million viewers on NBC to rank as the most-watched Premier League game since NBC Sports Group kicked off its BPL coverage in August 2013.
In its 15 months televising the Premier League, NBC Sports Group has aired 7 of the league’s 10 most-watched live games on U.S. television.
Sunday’s game, which was NBC’s first BPL match on a Sunday afternoon (and had competition from live NFL games), is the second-most watched live game in the U.S. in Premier League history (Manchester United-Chelsea, 2/5/12 on Fox, 1.38 million).
Saturday’s Seattle Sounders-LA Galaxy game on NBC, a 2-0 Sounders victory that was Landon Donovan’s final regular-season MLS game and decided the Supporters’ Shield (most regular-season points), averaged 699,000 viewers to rank as NBC Sports Group’s most-watched MLS game ever (including playoffs).
NBC Sports Group’s soccer coverage continues this weekend with six live matches.
Visit the NBCSN, mun2, NBC and Extra Time channel pages on LiveSoccerTV for NBCUniversal’s soccer coverage this weekend between Saturday, November 1, 2014 and Monday, November 3, 2014.
