Bundesliga: 6.99 million viewers for Bayern Munich - Hoffenheim on ZDF (audience share: 27.7%)

FC Bayern Munich - TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (3-1), the opening match of the 2018-19 Bundesliga season, drew an average of 6.99 million viewers in Germany to ZDF on Friday 24/08/2018 (kick-off at 20:30 CET).

This figure represented an audience share of 27.7% and allowed ZDF to post the best audience in the German television market for prime time on 24/08/2018.

FC Bayern Munich - Bayer 04 Leverkusen (3-1) opening match of the 2017-18 Bundesliga season, drew an average of 7.94 million TV viewers on ZDF on Friday 18/08/2017 (kick-off at 20:30) audience share: 29.3%. This was a record audience for an opening match in the Bundesliga since 2002, the date of the leagues' first free-to-air broadcast.

Bayern Munich - SV Werder Bremen (6-0), the opening match of the 2016-17 season Bundesliga, drew an average of 6.43 million viewers in Germany on the public-TV channel ARD and one of the Sky Deutschland pay-TV channels (see below), on Friday 26/08/2016 (kick-off at 20:30).

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