{"id":110128,"date":"2026-02-25T17:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/u-s-hockey-champion-26-million-viewers-in-historic-olympic-gold\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:44:58","slug":"u-s-hockey-champion-26-million-viewers-in-historic-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/u-s-hockey-champion-26-million-viewers-in-historic-olympic-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Hockey Champion: 26 Million Viewers in Historic Olympic Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resounding Success: US Men&#8217;s Hockey Conquers Olympic Gold and Breaks Audience Records<\/h2>\n\n\nJack Hughes&#8217; overtime goal, which secured the Olympic gold medal for the United States in men&#8217;s hockey for the first time since 1980, captivated a massive audience in the United States.\n\nAccording to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics data, the sporting event reached an average of 26 million viewers through NBC and Peacock.\n\nThe United States&#8217; victory over Canada, with a score of 2-1 in overtime, on Sunday, drew 18.6 million live viewers (8:15-11 a.m. EST) on NBC and Peacock. The total figure rose to 20.7 million with replays on USA Network on Sunday afternoon and on NBC on Sunday night.\n\nThis match solidifies itself as the most-watched sporting event in the history of the United States with a start time before 9 a.m. Eastern Time, according to Nielsen.\n\n\n<p>Although the current game did not surpass NBC&#8217;s all-time hockey viewership record, the final of the 2010 Vancouver Games, which pitted Canada against the United States, averaged 27.6 million viewers. However, the start time of that game was 3:15 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n\n\nThe combined audience in North America during Hughes&#8217; golden goal was almost 35 million. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that 8.7 million people in Canada tuned in to the game during overtime.\n\nThe Milan-Cortina Olympics averaged 23.5 million viewers in the United States, becoming the most-watched Winter Games since 2014 and surpassing the Beijing 2022 Games by 96% in audience.\n\nThe average audience includes the NBC, Peacock, CNBC, USA Network, and other digital platforms, covering the live afternoon windows (2-5 p.m. EST) and prime time (8-11 p.m. EST\/PST).\n\nRegarding women&#8217;s hockey, the gold medal match on February 19, where the United States defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime, averaged 5.3 million viewers on USA Network and Peacock, with a peak of 7.7 million during Megan Keller&#8217;s golden goal.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resounding Success: US Men&#8217;s Hockey Conquers Olympic Gold and Breaks Audience Records Jack Hughes&#8217; overtime goal, which secured the Olympic gold medal for the United States in men&#8217;s hockey for the first time since 1980, captivated a massive audience in the United States. According to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics data, the sporting event reached an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[662,2641,2000,6035],"class_list":{"0":"post-110128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-olympic-gold","10":"tag-team-usa","11":"tag-viewers"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}