With the national teams from three of Europe’s biggest TV markets
competing in Euro 2016 quarter-final matches, viewing figures hit huge
numbers this past weekend.
In France yesterday, the M6 network pulled the biggest audience in
its history for coverage of the French team’s win over versus Iceland
with 17.179 million viewers and a 60% audience share. That match also
scored big for ZDF in Germany, whose team will face the French in the
semi-finals, with 18.83 million viewers and a 54.3% share.
On Saturday, Germany versus Italy pulled 28.32 million viewers on
German network ARD with a 79.8% share. In Italy, the same match, won by
Germany on penalties, attracted 16.56 million on RAI with a share of
66.34%.
On Friday in Wales, a market of more modest size, the national team’s
victory over Belgium set a record for the biggest-ever audience for a
live game as BBC pulled 1.27 million viewers. The previous record was
for the rugby clash between Wales and England in the Six Nations in
2013.
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