England’s World Cup win over Mexico at 2am breaks viewing records across BBC

England's World Cup win over Mexico proved worth losing sleep over. According to The Guardian, the dramatic three-two victory drew a peak live audience of nine point one million on BBC One and iPlayer, despite kicking off at two a.m. British time — the biggest UK television audience ever recorded for a live broadcast at that hour. The BBC said the match also drove its biggest ever day for iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app, and its social video views, with forty-eight million requests for digital content on Monday.

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