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kylemcg t1_j19nfht wrote

Reply to comment by jermleeds in US House passes equal pay bill in latest women's soccer win by PhantomWizard2099

Why would they only care about US viewership? Money is money.

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jermleeds t1_j19pecm wrote

Bexause international viewership does not correlate to income for US Soccer as international broadcast rights are held and sold by other entities, whereas domestic viewership does. Low viewership of the Women's World Cup in Ecuador does not materially impact revenue for US Soccer.

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kylemcg t1_j19rlge wrote

That doesn't make any sense. Why would teams only get a piece of domestic viewership and not international?

If this is the case, Iceland's mens team would gave gotten basically nothing for its run in 2018 because of how small their country is despite that hundreds of millions watched them world wide

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sejohnson0408 t1_j1c3qcm wrote

Actually it does, because the prize pool for the women’s World Cup is small. During the broadcast for the World Cup this year they discussed that the us women would earn more from the men making the knockout round this year than they did from winning the tournament.

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