MLS: Orlando City - NY City FC, best national TV audience of the first matchday of the 2015 season

The Orlando City SC - New York City FC (1-1) match, which marked the debut of the two new MLS (Major League Soccer, USA_CAN) franchises, garnered 539,000 viewers on average during the game on the American pay-TV channel (English language) ESPN2 on Sunday 08/03/2015 (kick-off at 17:00 Eastern Standard Time in the US). This was the best TV audience among the four games (of the ten total games) of Matchday 1 of the 2015 MLS season broadcast live on US national TV channels on 06, 07 and 08/03/2015.

In United States and Canada combined, the rivalry match between Vancouver Whitecaps FC - Toronto FC (1-3) garnered the second best TV audience of the MLS weekend, with 353,000 viewers on average on the Canadian pay-TV channel (English language) TSN. This is the best TV audience ever recorded by TSN for a MLS fixture, said the chanel from the Bell Media telecommunications group. The fixture attracted 1.9 million unique viewers in total in Canada. In total, the five fixtures broadcast live in the USA and Canada of Matchday 1 of the 2015 MLS season gathered a cumulative average audience of 1.79…