Champions League: ZDF draws 8.05 million viewers for Bayern Munich - Shakhtar Donetsk

The FC Bayern Munich - Shakhtar Donetsk match (7-0), in the Round of 16 of the 2014-15 Champions League (0-0 in the first leg), and broadcast live in Germany on free-TV by ZDF, allowed the German public-TV channel to draw 8.05 million viewers on average during the match (kick-off at 20:45) on 11/03/2015, according to figures from the audience measurement institutes AGF and GfK.

This represents a 27% audience share (out of all individuals), and allowed ZDF to achieve the best performance in the German TV market for the whole of the day Wednesday 11/03/2015. The German public channel earned the top four TV audiences in Germany during the day of 11/03/2015, including the third best audience of the day for the replay, on free-TV, of the Round of 16 second leg match between Real Madrid CF and FC Schalke 04 (3-4, Real Madrid advanced on aggregate, 5-4), which gathered 5.77 million viewers on average starting from 22:50 on 11/03/2015 (28.2% audience share). This match took place the day before, on 10/03/2015.

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