USA: 745,000 viewers for Arsenal-Liverpool, Matchday 1 of the 2016-17 Premier League season on NBCSN

Arsenal FC - Liverpool FC (3-4) from Matchday 1 of the 2016-17 Premier League season, drew an average of 745,000 viewers in the USA on the sports pay-TV channel NBCSN, on Sunday, 14/08/2016 (kick-off 16:00 BST, 11:00 on the East coast of the United States).

This is a record audience for the United States for a first game of the Premier League season broadcast on a pay-TV channel. With 6.8 million minutes being viewed online and on mobile platforms, Arsenal - Liverpool also drew the third best audience for a Premier League match broadcast on the NBC Sports OTT platform, launched in 2013.

Manchester United FC - Tottenham Hotspur FC (1-0) Matchday 1 of the 2015-16 Premier League season, drew an average of 626,000 viewers, on Saturday, 08/08/2015 (kick-off at 12:45 BST, or 07:45 on the East coast of the United States).

The record audience for a match from the first day of Premier League broadcast in the United States was recorded on Saturday, 08/08/2015, for Chelsea FC - Swansea City AFC (2-2) which drew an average of one million viewers on the national, free-TV channel NBC (kick-off…