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Ligue 1 Conforama: 1.65 million viewers for PSG - Troyes on free-TV on C8 (audience share: 7.2%)

News Tank Football - Paris - News #107611 - Published on 01/12/17 at 11:50
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Paris SG - ESTAC Troyes, the 29/11/2017 - ©  lfp

Paris Saint-Germain Activity: French professional football club Top sponsors: • Nike (equipment supplier): €20m per year from 2014-15 to 2021-22, between €70-90m for the 2019-2032 cycle• Qatar Airways (airline)… - ESTAC Troyes (2-0), the closing match of the mid-week Matchday 15 of the 2017-18 Ligue 1 Conforama, and the first match of this season broadcast free-to-air on C8, the free DTT Digital Terrestrial Television channel belonging to the Canal+ Founded: 1984 Industry: pay-TV and free-TV; aggregator and distributor of channels; coproduction, acquisition and film distribution Shareholding: Vivendi (100%) Chairman of the supervisory… group, a subsidiary of Vivendi, drew 1.651 million viewers on average, on Wednesday 29/11/2017 (kick-off at 21:00 CET Central European Time ).

This figure represented an audience share of 7.2%, and allowed C8 achieved the fifth best performance, in number of viewers, in the French television market for prime time on 29/11/2017.

The match, co-broadcast on pay-TV on Canal+, drew 1 million subscribers on the pay channel (audience share: 4.4%). So a total of 2.651 million viewers in France watched the game. Olympique de Marseille - PSG Activity: French professional football club Top sponsors: • Nike (equipment supplier): €20m per year from 2014-15 to 2021-22, between €70-90m for the 2019-2032 cycle• Qatar Airways (airline)… (2-2, Matchday 11), is the best audience of the 2017-18 Ligue 1 Conforama season on Canal+, with 2.57 million viewers on average (audience share: 10.1%), on 22/10/2017 (kick-off at 21:00).


  • PSG - ESTAC Troyes was the first match broadcast on free-TV by the Canal+ group since it has held rights to Ligue 1 (since 1984).
  • This game was part of an exceptional programming operation on C8, ahead of the 2017 end-of-year celebrations.
    • C8 will also broadcast, in this context, the game of Matchday 12 of the French Top 14 Rugby Championship: RC Toulonnais - LOU Rugby, on Saturday 02/12/2017 (kick-off at 20:15 CET).

2017-18 Ligue 1 Conforama: TV audiences of the games on Canal+

Sources: News Tank Football