Fox Sports 1’s morning present, “Wake Up Barstool,” doesn’t seem like getting a World Cup bump.
The morning present, which airs from Barstool’s Chicago places of work, debuted final 12 months, forward of the 2026 college football season. The present, which may do properly on social media, hasn’t been posting superb TV scores. And these subpar TV scores continued in June, regardless of FOX having the 2026 World Cup.
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According to a report by Austin Karp in Sports Business Journal, “Wake Up Barstool”averaged simply 19,000 viewers on FS1 within the month of June. Fox Sports 1 had been experiencing large TV scores the week of June 15, averaging 885,000 viewers throughout its dayparts, the most-watched week in community historical past.
Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy walks in direction of the pagoda earlier than the beginning of Carb Day apply, Friday, May 28, 2021, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.© Grace Hollars/IndyStar through Imagn Content Services, LLC
But “Wake Up Barstool,” which options Barstool founder Dave Portnoy, Big Cat and PFT Commenter of “Pardon My Take” and different rotating visitors from the sports activities media firm, didn’t present a lot indicators of life in June, a minimum of within the TV scores division.
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ESPN’s “Get Up!” which airs on the identical time, posted an viewers roughly 2,000 occasions greater.
“Get Up, the show that airs in the same hours on ESPN, averaged 426,000 viewers, a staggering 2,142% better than Wake Up Barstool, per SBJ,” Awful Announcing wrote.
“The underwhelming viewership is particularly notable given FS1’s success throughout the rest of the month. Historically, major live sporting events, like World Cup matches, can have a halo effect on a network’s other programming, even lasting through the overnight hours and into the next day. No such momentum appeared to hold for the 8 a.m. ET episodes of Wake Up Barstool.”
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Football season is coming, which is all the time an enormous time for Barstool – and the remainder of the sports activities world – so maybe a scores increase will probably be coming then.
This story was initially printed by The Spun on Jul 15, 2026, the place it first appeared within the Sports Media part. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.