China: Real Madrid-Granada (noon in Spain) attracts best audience in 2014-15 for a European match

The Real Madrid CF - Granada CF match (9-1, Matchday 29 of the 2014-15 Liga BBVA), which was played on Sunday 05/04/2015 at noon CET, achieved the best TV audience in China in for a match of a European championship so far in 2014-15, announced the Chinese audience research institute CSM Media Research on 08/04/2015.

26.3 million viewers watched at least a "moment" of the game, which kicked off at 18:00 in China, on the Chinese public channel CCTV-5, with an average audience of 3.4 million viewers. This figure is 7.3 times higher than the average audience of the match in Spain: 466,000 subscribers watched the game live in Spain on Gol T and Canal+ Liga.

By way of comparison, the last "Clasico", FC Barcelona - Real Madrid CF (2-1, Matchday 28 of the 2014-15 Liga BBVA on Sunday 22/03/2015), which kicked off at 21:00 CET, or 4:00 in China (winter time), attracted an average of 1.69 million subscribers in Spain (Canal+ 1) and 850,000 viewers in China (on CCTV- 5), a quarter that of the Real Madrid CF - Granada FC match on 05/04/2015.