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Brazilian YouTuber João Cocielo.

Brazilian YouTube personality who lost sponsors over racist World Cup tweet now facing $1.8 million fine

A tweet about Kylian Mbappé could get even more costly for João Cocielo.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnSep 14, 2018 2
The World Cup on Telemundo.

While Fox World Cup ratings fell, the English-Spanish ratings gap grew; ad spend data also shows language divides

The English-Spanish adults 18-49 ratings gap grew from 26 percent (in 2010 and 2014) to 40 percent this year.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 18, 2018 1

Amazon will stream a new documentary on France’s second World Cup championship

The documentary premieres this week in France, but the rest of the world will have to wait until this fall to watch it

By Ken Fang OnJul 17, 2018 0
France celebrating their World Cup win.

The World Cup Final drew the lowest U.S. overnight rating since 2002, but was also the earliest final since 2002

The 8.3 overnight rating was down 14 percent from a 9.7 in 2014, but only slightly down from the 8.6 in 2006 and 2010.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 16, 2018 8
ESPN's Lego highlights of the World Cup final.

ESPN’s Lego highlights of the World Cup final included everything from VAR to trophy celebrations

Without full highlight rights to this tournament, ESPN had to get creative, and their Lego highlights Sunday were particularly good.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 16, 2018 1
Croatia fans at the World Cup.

FIFA wants broadcasters to show fewer shots of female fans, says sexism has been a bigger World Cup problem than racism

FIFA apparently wants broadcasters to cut down on the crowd shots of female fans.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 11, 2018 9
The World Cup on Fox

Fox seems happy with World Cup ad revenue haul despite having to offer make-goods

Facing a World Cup in a tough time zone without the United States, Fox is still generating plenty of ad revenue.

By Jay Rigdon OnJul 11, 2018 0
Croatia celebrating a World Cup win against Russia.

Saturday marked the most-watched day of World Cup quarterfinals since at least 1990

Croatia-Russia averaged 6,317,000 viewers on Fox, the best World Cup quarterfinal numbers in the U.S. in almost three decades.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 9, 2018 0
Cristiano Ronaldo

With Argentina and Portugal losing, Fox won’t have their dream Messi versus Ronaldo quarterfinal

Fox clearly wanted both of them to advance, and now they have neither.

By Jay Rigdon OnJun 30, 2018 3

Telemundo apologizes, suspends two hosts for racist gestures after South Korea’s win over Germany

The hosts apologized on-air today.

By Jay Rigdon OnJun 28, 2018 6
Tony Meola (L) and Troy Aikman.

Twitter can’t get over how much Fox World Cup match analyst Tony Meola sounds like Troy Aikman

This similarity has been a running theme this tournament, but was particularly noticeable during Tuesday's Nigeria-Argentina match.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJun 26, 2018 1

Here’s Andres Cantor calling all the goals from Mexico’s 2-1 win over South Korea

Mexico looked great again today, too.

By Jay Rigdon OnJun 23, 2018 1
Argentina's World Cup loss to Croatia ended with a sad shot of Lionel Messi.

Streaming measurement provider says global peak for World Cup has already passed Super Bowl record by 40 percent

Conviva estimated a peak of 7.7 million global viewers during Argentina-Croatia, up 40 percent over their previous record of 5.5 million during this year's Super Bowl.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJun 22, 2018 1
Lothar Matthaus is out at Fox.

Fox shakes up World Cup coverage mid-tournament, axing Lothar Matthäus and adding Martin O’Neill and Clarence Seedorf

Matthäus has been dropped mid-tournament "due to schedule conflicts."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJun 20, 2018 3
Landon Donovan's ad campaigns promoting the Mexican team have sparked backlash.

Unsurprisingly, Landon Donovan’s Mexico ad campaigns have led to Twitter backlash and a statement of clarification

Who could have foreseen this drawing backlash?

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJun 17, 2018 0

FS1’s Jorge Perez-Navarro dropped a magnificent “Boom goes the dynamite!” for Denmark’s opening goal

It's a great call, with or without context.

By Jay Rigdon OnJun 16, 2018 1

BBC World Cup feed goes out after France-Australia game

Some viewers seemed to prefer a test pattern instead of Phil Neville.

By Phillip Bupp OnJun 16, 2018 1
The 2018 World Cup

Telemundo’s World Cup coverage will be streamed on NBC Sports app

By putting Telemundo’s coverage on the NBC Sports app, it potentially brings adds people to their Spanish language coverage.

By Ken Fang OnMay 22, 2018 2
UBS did a bunch of World Cup simulations, and included Italy in some of them.

UBS runs 10,000 World Cup simulations including Italy for some reason, Bloomberg writes about it

This UBS report was...not impressive. But that didn't stop Bloomberg from covering it.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 18, 2018 2
The 2018 World Cup

Four of Fox’s six World Cup crews will call matches from LA studios, eight of 12 commentators will be American

ESPN sent five announcing teams to Brazil in 2014; Fox is sending just two to Russia, with the other teams calling matches off monitors in Los Angeles.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnApr 25, 2018 15

Fox will partner with Twitter, Snapchat for highlights, original content at 2018 World Cup

Fox will produce a live show on Twitter and a Publisher Story on Snapchat, while also distributing highlights and interview clips to the platforms.

By Alex Putterman OnJan 9, 2018 0
The 2018 World Cup

The FIFA World Cup Draw wasn’t much of a draw for FS1

Airing while most people were either at work, going to work or getting up wasn’t ideal for the World Cup Draw.

By Ken Fang OnDec 6, 2017 6

The next three World Cups could be a disaster for Fox Sports and American soccer

The USMNT screwing up qualifying was a significant blow.

By Ty Duffy OnNov 24, 2017 14
Syria after scoring the equalizing goal in World Cup qualifying.

Syrian announcer breaks down in tears as team advances to World Cup qualifying playoff

"Who scored? Somah! It had to be Somah! It had to be Somah! The equalizing goal! Pardon me! I've lost it! No one can stop them!"

By Andrew Bucholtz OnSep 5, 2017 2
Mexico vs U.S. October 2015

In 2018 World Cup, Fox plans to cover Mexican team “as if it’s a second home team”

One big change Fox plans to bring to World Cup coverage is more focus on the Mexican team.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnApr 22, 2017 3

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