World Cup TV Ratings on ABC?
 

can't find them online - anybody heard what the numbers were for the US broadcast?

1 billion watchers worldwide

I'd actually say it was around the Superbowl rating area

about 2.3 million Canadians watched which is what a nationally telecast NHL playoff game would do - up by a million from the last World Cup.

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1B Sounds about right!:pimp

nahh but would they even be high?

that's what i'm interested to find out - i think they will turn out to be pretty impressive.

I couldn't find any yet on the figures for the final, but I did find this on bloomberg about the earlier games: "The U.S. audience for World Cup on ESPN is up 55 percent this year from the 2002 games, with the average match reaching about 1.6 million households. ABC ratings increased 108 percent to an average 2.77 million households."

Obviously the figures for the final will be much higher and it was shown simulataneously on ABC and ESPN.