{"id":36,"date":"2026-07-07T19:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/u-s-belgium-world-cup-match-is-most-watched-soccer-telecast-in-u-s-history-fox-says\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:42:47","slug":"u-s-belgium-world-cup-match-is-most-watched-soccer-telecast-in-u-s-history-fox-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Belgium World Cup match is most-watched soccer telecast in U.S. history, Fox says\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. game against Belgium in the round of 16 at the World Cup set another record as the most-watched soccer telecast in U.S. history, Fox said after preliminary ratings came out Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fox said 30 million people watched the game, a<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/soccer\/2026\/07\/06\/world-cup-us-belgium\"> 4-1 victory for Belgium <\/a>on Monday in Seattle to move into the quarterfinals and eliminate the last of the tournament&#8217;s three co-hosts. Fox said audience peaked at more than 36.8 million people between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time.<\/p>\n<p>That topped the previous mark, the U.S.-Bosnia-Herzegovina game last week that Fox said was watched by 26.4 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"RelatedList Enhancement\" data-module data-align-center>\n<div class=\"RelatedList-title\">Related<\/div>\n<ul class=\"RelatedList-items\">\n<li class=\"RelatedList-items-item\">\n                    <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/soccer\/2026\/07\/06\/world-cup-us-belgium\">U.S. booted from World Cup after 4-1 loss to Belgium<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n<li class=\"RelatedList-items-item\">\n                    <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/chicago\/2026\/07\/06\/chicago-fans-us-belgium-world-cup-recess\">Chicago fans turn out for U.S., Belgium World Cup match<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. game against Belgium in the round of 16 at the World Cup set another record as the most-watched soccer telecast in U.S. history, Fox said after preliminary ratings came out Tuesday. Fox said 30 million people watched the game, a 4-1 victory for Belgium on Monday in Seattle to move into the quarterfinals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}