I implore you....please don’t perpetuate the 800 million spectator myth.
Like most international bodies, FIFA feels above the law, and commits fraud with its advertisers and sponsors by inflating its numbers four fold!
Don’t confuse this with the FIFA officials who let themselves get bribed into hosting the event in Qatar.
And don’t get mixed up with the match fixing in South Africa.
“You seem to have a limited knowledge of how sporting events are conducted at the international level.”
See scandals above...I have a basic working knowledge of how it works.
The average in-home viewership around the globe for each of the 64 matches in 2010 World Cup was 188.4 million. Compare that to the US-record-setting 111.5 million viewers who tuned in to the 2014 Super Bowl.
If you tried to watch end-to-end all 71,867 hours of television broadcasted by global networks from the 2010 World Cup, you’d be watching TV for 8.2 years straight—without sleep.
The games were broadcast to 214 countries and territories, 21 more than the membership of the United Nations.
3.2 billion people watched part of the games from home in 2010, roughly half the world’s population at the time.
About 909.6 million home viewers watched some of the 2010 World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain—more than 14 times the total population of both nations, and about three times of the population of the United States.
Out-of-home watchers of the 2010 final “likely pushed the total audience reach to more than 1 billion,” making it the most-watched event in the history of broadcast.