USA: TV audience down 35% for El Clasico Barça - Real on 28/10/2018 (544,359 viewers)

FC Barcelona - Real Madrid (5-1), during Matchday 10 of the 2018-19 LaLiga Santander, drew 544,359 TV viewers on average in the United States on the pay-TV channels of beIN Sports USA (181,000 in English; 363,359 in Spanish), on Sunday 28/10/2018 (kick-off at 16:15 CET, 10:15 am on the east coast of the United States and 07:15 am on the west coast).

The first game between the two teams in the 2017-18 season, Real Madrid - FC Barcelona (0-3), played on Saturday 23/12/2017 (kick-off at 13:00 CET, 07:00 am on the east coast of the United States and 04:00 am on the west coast), had drawn 845,000 viewers on average on beIN Sports USA channels. The TV audience of El Clasico is down 35% compared to the 2017-18 season, even while the match time slot was more suited to the US market this season.

This decrease is mainly due to the fact that the beIN Sports USA channels are no longer distributed by American operators DirecTV (AT&T group) and Xfininty (Comcast group), at this point for several months. "beIN Sports is currently in negotiations with cable operators, telecom operators and…