{"id":819206,"date":"2026-03-11T16:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/819206\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:08:41","slug":"broadcast-tv-lifting-wbc-audiences-with-foxs-usa-great-britain-second-best-for-event-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/819206\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcast TV lifting WBC audiences, with Fox\u2019s USA-Great Britain second-best for event on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The move to have more U.S. World Baseball Classic games on broadcast TV is paying off, as Fox Sports is seeing a 142% uptick vs. the same spot in the tournament in 2023. The WBC got a big number from USA-Great Britain on Saturday night on Fox, as the pool play game averaged 2.98 million viewers. That figure is second all-time for any WBC game, behind only the 4.48 million that the Japan-USA finale drew in 2023. The audience also is up 101% from USA-Great Britain on Fox in 2023, but that game was earlier, just outside of prime time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">For some non-baseball comps, USA-Great Britain is the equivalent of the most recent Las Vegas Bowl on ESPN (Utah-Nebraska on New Year\u2019s Eve) or what CBS drew last month for a Houston-Arizona men\u2019s college basketball game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">On Friday, Fox drew 2.64 million viewers for USA-Brazil in pool play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">With the U.S. losing to Italy in pool play on Tuesday night, Wednesday\u2019s Italy-Mexico game will determine whether the Americans advance, and that game has now been moved from Tubi to FS1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The move to have more U.S. World Baseball Classic games on broadcast TV is paying off, as Fox&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[11534,748,393,97837,233948,4884,14881,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-819206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-baseball","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-fox-sports","tag-fs1","tag-great-britain","tag-mlb","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116211410927580800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}