Literally hundreds of people will be tuning in for the excitement.
When dumb asses try to be sarcastic.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...ld-cup-smashes-global-ratings-records-1221957
Women's World Cup Smashes Global Ratings Records
People worldwide in unprecedented numbers are tuning in to watch the soccer tournament as it enters its final week.
As the Women's World Cup enters its final week, TV networks around the globe are already declaring victory.
With this tournament setting ratings records — even ahead of the July 7 final in Paris — the 2019 World Cup appears to be marking the moment when the women's game has stopped being treated as an adjunct to the men’s event and is embraced as a premier showcase on its own.
Massive television and digital audiences have tuned in to watch the first three weeks of live coverage, prompting organizer FIFA to forecast a total global audience of 1 billion viewers across all platforms by the time the final whistle blows on Sunday.
Fox Sports, which has English-language rights to 2019 World Cup matches, recorded a peak of 8.24 million TV viewers for Friday's quarterfinal between Team USA and tournament hosts France, which ended in a thrilling 2-1 victory for the Stars and Stripes. It was the most-watched soccer match on English-language U.S. television since last summer’s men's World Cup final. The audience was up 7 percent from the U.S.-China quarterfinal in 2015 despite being played in a European time zone, which meant U.S. viewers had to tune in at 3 p.m. ET or noon on the West coast.
On Fox streaming sources, the match drew an average minute audience of 211,000, making it the most-streamed Women's World Cup match of all time in the U.S. Across Fox's digital and social media platforms, World Cup content drew 13 million views and the FIFA Women's World Cup Now live feed on Twitter posted 1.05 million viewers, more than double the previous record.
But women's soccer has been a big deal in the U.S. for some time now. The Stars and Stripes are the most successful team in the game, having won three previous World Cups (alongside four Olympic gold medals). A big American audience for this year's tournament was a given. What has really excited organizers, sponsors and fans are the huge TV audiences in territories that have previously proved indifferent to the women's game.
Italy and Brazil, two soccer-mad nations, turned out in force to support their national sides. Brazil’s round-of-16 match against France was viewed by more than 35 million people on free-to-air network Globo TV, the largest domestic audience to watch a women’s soccer game anywhere in history. A further 10.6 million in France caught the game, making it the most-watched women's match of all time.
