Champions League: Real - Atlético brings 1.54 million subscribers to Canal+ Liga de Campeones

The Real Madrid CF - Atlético de Madrid (1-0) second leg quarter-final match of the 2014-15 Champions League (Real Madrid advanced 1-0 on aggregate after the first leg at Atlético finished in a 0-0 draw), which was broadcast live in Spain by Canal+ Liga de Campeones, the only channel to broadcast…

Champions League: 8.43 million viewers on the Italian channel Canale 5 for AS Monaco - Juventus

The AS Monaco FC - Juventus (0-0) second leg quarter-final match of the 2014-15 Champions League (Juventus advanced 1-0 on aggregate, after a 1-0 win in the first leg in Turin), which was broadcast live in Italy by Canale 5, saw the Mediaset private free-tv channel to attract 8.429 million viewers…

Sky: 20,840,000 subscribers on 31/03/2015 (+4.75% YoY), +13.2% for Sky Deutschland

Sky plc has 20.84 million direct subscribers at the end of the third quarter of the 2015 fiscal year (from 01/07/2014 to 30/06/2015), or 947,000 more (+4.75%) than on 31/03/2014 (19.9 million) and 242,000 more (+1.17%) than on 31/12/2014 (20.6 million), stated the British broadcasting group…

Finland: Modern Times Group acquires the pay-TV rights of the 2015-2018 Champions League

The Swedish broadcasting group MTG (Modern Times Group) has acquired the entire 2015-2018 audiovisual rights, for pay-TV in Finland, to the Champions League on 15/04/2015. MTG replaces the pay-TV group MTV3, the rightsholder during the 2012-2015 cycle. MTG will offer all the matches of the…

La Liga: number of socios by club (as of 23/04/2015)

In Spain, a "socio" is a member of a club's association. Below is the number of socios per club in the 2014-15 Liga BBVA as of 23/04/2015. It is important to note that four Spanish clubs -- FC Barcelona, Real Madrid CF, Athletic Club Bilbao, and CA Osasuna (in the Liga Adelante in 2014-15, the…

Bundesliga: number of association members by club (as of 27/04/2015)

FC Bayern Munich is the club with the most association members (251,315) in the Bundesliga as of 27/04/2015, ahead of FC Schalke 04 (132,000) and Borussia Dortmund (120,000). On average, a Bundesliga club has 52,000 association members. The total number of association members in the Bundesliga is…

Canada 2015: FIFA TV and the Japanese channel NHK will produce 10 games, including the final, in 8K

10 of the 52 matches of the 2015 Women's World Cup will be filmed in 8K by FIFA TV production teams in collaboration with the Japanese TV broadcaster NHK, said the international federation on 17/04/2015. 8K technology provides an image quality 16 times great than HD (high definition), that is to…

Bundesliga: Bayern Munich announce excludive media partnership in the USA with MSN

MSN, the media branch of the American computer software company Microsoft, has partnered with FC Bayern Munich (Bundesliga) for the distribution of premium and exclusive content of the club in the United States, the German club announced on 17/04/2015.The content partnership includes written and…

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Champions League: Bayern Munich - FC Porto attracts 14.4 million viewers in Germany and Portugal

The FC Bayern Munich - FC Porto (6-1) second leg quarter-final match of the 2014-15 Champions League (Bayern Munich advanced 7-4 on aggregate, despite losing 1-3 in the first leg in Porto), was broadcast live in Germany by ZDF, which saw the German public broadcaster attract 11.23 million viewers…