Canada’s TSN drew almost as many MLS Cup viewers as the U.S. broadcast on ABC, despite Canada having 1/10th the people
TSN averaged 748,000 MLS Cup viewers, while ABC averaged 823,000.
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The MLS Cup was previously held in December on Saturdays without much sports competition. But moving it up a month meant that it had to shift to Sunday to not conflict with ESPN college football coverage, and that saw it go head-to-head with the NFL.
Fox’s coverage of MLS Cup final sees highest viewership for final since 1997
This year's final saw a 91 percent increase over last year.
Dutch Eurosport announcer completely ignored MLS Cup Final to instead talk about Donald Trump and sing Frank Sinatra
"Frank had his last broadcast yesterday and was clearly busy with everything except his last game! We too had a different view this last time and therefore our sincere apologies."
