🔸 The final Opening Weekend numbers are official. HISTORIC is an understatement.
✔️ 7.5 million average viewers across Telemundo, Peacock, and Telemundo digital platforms through the tournament's first 12 matches.
✔️ +234% vs. FIFA World Cup™ 2022 through the first 12 matches.
🔰 The final numbers are in, and the record-breaking start to FIFA World Cup 2026™ is even bigger.
✔️ Most-watched FIFA World Cup™ Opening Game in history, regardless of language.
✔️ Most-streamed Mexico match in FIFA World Cup™ history, with an Average Minute Audience (AMA) of 4.9 million viewers.
✔️ Highest-rated telecast in Telemundo's history, with a peak of 9.3 million viewers.
✔️ Most-watched day ever for @Telemundo, averaging 2.6 million viewers in Total Day.
See the full results and additional highlights here: https://t.co/tqU6PWcHSI
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The World Cup has drawn huge audiences so far. For U.S.-Paraguay, Telemundo, Peacock, Fox and Tubi delivered a combined 24.8 million viewers (English+Spanish), per preliminary numbers. https://t.co/RRfcVS2AXd
NBC's historic firsts:
• First Major Radio Network (November 1926)
• First Televised Breaking News Event (November 1938)
• First Televised Presidential Event (April 1939)
• First Commercial TV Advertisement (July 1941)
• First Longest-Running TV Program (November 1947)
• First Morning News Broadcast (January 1952)
• First Color TV Broadcast (January 1954)
• First Late-Night Broadcast (September 1954)
• First Full-Hour Color Western (September 1959)
• First Made-For-TV Movie (October 1964)
• First Soap Opera in Color (November 1965)
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