{"id":14911,"date":"2023-08-13T07:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T07:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14911"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T07:35:47","slug":"wwc-falcons-england-clash-most-viewed-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14911","title":{"rendered":"WWC: Falcons, England Clash Most Viewed In UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The match coverage of the Super Falcons\u2019 round of 16 defeat to England gained the highest viewership figures of the Women\u2019s World Cup in the UK thus far, <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/wwc-falcons-england-clash-most-viewed-in-uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday PUNCH<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The engagement was multi-faceted, with a peak audience of 5.2m tuning in on BBC One, with an additional 2.6m streams across BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport Online. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Notably, the BBC\u2019s digital platforms also registered an impressive tally of more than 2m requests for game highlights and clips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Super Falcons were the much better side on the night in Brisbane but England maintained their composure to go through on penalties, winning 4-2 to seal their spot in the last eight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Across the Atlantic, the USA\u2019s game with Sweden attracted a combined audience of 2.79m on Fox and Telemundo. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fox\u2019s broadcast had an average of 2.51m viewers and peaked at 4.07m. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Peacock, Universo, and Telemundo\u2019s streaming platforms attracted 274,000 Spanish-language viewers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Australia, Seven, the country\u2019s free-to-air broadcaster, had an average of 3.56m viewers for the Matildas\u2019 win over Denmark. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The game\u2019s streaming was also impressive, with 384,000 streams on 7plus, setting a new platform record. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This viewership even surpassed the audiences for the Australian Football League and the National Rugby League grand finals last year, making the Matildas\u2019 match the highest-rated TV programme of 2023 in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The match coverage of the Super Falcons\u2019 round of 16 defeat to England gained the highest viewership figures of the Women\u2019s World Cup in the UK thus far, Sunday PUNCH report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[811,1963,7458,89,7457],"class_list":["post-14911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-england","tag-falcons","tag-most-viewed","tag-uk","tag-wwc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14913,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions\/14913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}