World Cup audiences
19 June 2026
ITV draws 15.4 million for England opener
In World Cup television, ITV says fifteen point four million viewers watched England beat Croatia on June seventeenth.
“In World Cup television, ITV says fifteen point four million viewers watched England beat Croatia on June seventeenth. That peak makes live tournament football a reminder that shared national moments can still concentrate mass viewing on linear channels.”
Original reporting: advanced-television.com ↗
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