The weekends television ratings are in and FS1’s coverage of Atlanta United’s inaugural game did very, very well compared to other soccer games on Sunday and over the weekend. We’ll forgo analyzing a nationally televised soccer game to things like The Walking Dead and only discuss national regular season basketball games as a point of reference.
A review of Sunday’s national televised soccer games: Manchester City/Sunderland, Orlando City/NYCFC, Everton/Tottenham, Athletico Madrid/ Valencia, and a handful of Liga MX games.
FS1’s coverage of ATLUTD vs RBNY beat all of the above in the one statistic that truly matters to advertisers and, ultimately, the TV networks – number of viewers between ages 18 and 49.