MLS: average TV audience increased by 9.1% for ESPN and ESPN2, and 27% for NBCSN in 2014

The American pay-TV channels ESPN and ESPN2 attracted an average of 240,000 viewers per televised match of MLS (Major League Soccer) in 2014, 9.1% more than in 2013 (220,000 viewers), indicated several American media outlets on 05/11/2014.

ESPN Deportes, the Spanish-language channel of ESPN, attracted an average of 42,000 viewers per MLS match broadcast on its channel in 2014, an increase of 31% compared to 2013 (32,000 viewers). The pay channel NBCSN attracted an average of 142,000 viewers per MLS match in 2014, an increase of 27% compared to 2013 (112,000 viewers).

The average cumulative TV audiences of MLS matches increased 23% in the US in 2014, from 141,000 viewers on average per match in 2013 on the American English-language TV bouquets ESPN and NBCSN, to 172,000 viewers per match, a year later.

MLS: progression of the average audience and the number of games broadcast in the US from 2006 to 2014