USA/Champions League: audience record for Real Madrid - Manchester City (semi-final) on CBS

Real Madrid CF (LaLiga Santander) - Manchester City FC (Premier League), 2021-22 Champions League semi-final second leg (3-1; 6-5 on aggregate), played on Wednesday 04/05/2022 (kick-off at 21:00 CET, 15:00 ET, 12 noon PT), was watched by 1.1 million viewers on the US English-language channel CBS, according to Nielsen data reported by Sports Business Journal.

This figure is a record audience for a Champions League semi-final (broadcast in English in the USA). In 2018-19, the two second legs of the semi-finals were watched by less than 700,000 viewers on TNT (Turner Sports).

The 2018-19 Champions League final, Tottenham Hotspur FC (Premier League) - Liverpool FC (Premier League) (0-2), drew an average of 2.9 million viewers in the United States on Saturday 01/06/2019. An average of 1.5 million viewers watched the match in English on the pay-TV channel TNT while 1.4 million followed in Spanish on the pay-TV channels belonging to the Univision group.

United States: CBS and Univision broadcasters of the three European Cups over the 2021-2024 cycle

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