Champions League: Bayern Munich - FC Porto attracts 14.4 million viewers in Germany and Portugal

The FC Bayern Munich - FC Porto (6-1) second leg quarter-final match of the 2014-15 Champions League (Bayern Munich advanced 7-4 on aggregate, despite losing 1-3 in the first leg in Porto), was broadcast live in Germany by ZDF, which saw the German public broadcaster attract 11.23 million viewers on average during the match (kick-off at 20:45 CET) on Tuesday 21/04/2015.

This score represents an audience share of 36.4%, and saw ZDF achieve the best performance in the German TV market for prime time on Tuesday 21/04/2015. This is a new audience record for ZDF for a Champions League match broadcast in 2014-15, ahead of the first leg of FC Porto - FC Bayern Munich on 15/04/2014, which attracted 9.52 million viewers (audience share: 31.9%). The match was also watched by an average of 620,000 subscribers in Germany on the pay-TV channel Sky Sport 1, for an audience share of 2% across all German TV channels.

In Portugal, the match was broadcast live and exclusively by the free private channel TVI, which attracted 2.527 million viewers on average, which corresponded to a 52.8% audience…