{"id":8565,"date":"2026-06-12T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=8565"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:59:31","slug":"stv-scores-biggest-audience-with-world-cup-opener-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=8565","title":{"rendered":"STV scores biggest audience with World Cup opener \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>The action will move to the US on Saturday<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The opening match at the World Cup drew a\u00a0peak\u00a0audience of\u00a0794,000\u00a0on STV and STV Player, the channel\u2019s highest audience this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The clash between tournament co-hosts Mexico and South Africa at the historic Estadio Azteca also earned STV its\u00a0highest peak audience since November 2024, when an episode of\u00a0I\u2019m a Celebrity\u00a0peaked at 840,000 viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The audience for the match was up 12% on the opener at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, when hosts Qatar took on Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Richard Williams, managing director of audience at STV, said:\u201dWhat a brilliant start to the World Cup, delivering our highest audience of the year so far \u2013 with so much more to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re hugely excited about the rest of\u00a0the competition, which underscores the unique power that shared experiences like this have to bring audiences together in a truly special way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">STV will screen 29 live group stage matches this month, including\u00a0Scotland v Morocco on Friday 19 June, which STV will broadcast live from Boston\u2019s Gillette Stadium from 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #STV #scores #biggest #audience #World #Cup #opener #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The action will move to the US on Saturday The opening match at the World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[6677,54,272,1594,306,14556,4214,2870,51,1593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}