Canal+ France: 2.7 million subscribers at Paris SG-Barça, top audience for 2014-15 Champions League

The Paris Saint-Germain - FC Barcelona (1-3) first leg quarter-final of the 2014-15 Champions League, broadcast live and exclusively in France on Canal+, allowed the pay-TV channel to gather 2.7 million subscribers on average during the match (kick-off at 20:45 CET), Wednesday, 15/04/2015.

This score represents an audience share of 46% of subscribers, that is to say, almost one Canal+ subscriber out of two watching TV at the time followed the Paris Saint-Germain - FC Barcelona match on the encrypted channel. "This is the best audience rating and audience share" for a Champions League match on Canal+ in 2014-15, said the French pay-TV group on 16/04/2015.

• With the Paris Saint-Germain - FC Barcelona match, Canal+ had the third best performance in the French TV market for prime time Wednesday, 15/04/2015, behind the private free channel TF1 ("Grey's Anatomy" series, 4.7 million viewers on average, 18.1% audience share) and the public channel France 2 (TV movie "Coup de cœur", 4 million viewers on average, 15.7% audience share).
  • Canal+ had an audience share of 11.2% of all French…