Champions League: Barcelona - Leverkusen attracts 5.8 million viewers in Spain and Germany

The match between FC Barcelona - Bayer 04 Leverkusen (2-1, Group E) on Matchday 2 of the 2015-16 Champions League group stage attracted more than 5.8 million viewers in Spain and Germany on Tuesday, 29/09/2015 (kick-off at 20:45 CET).

In Spain, the match was broadcast by the private free-TV channel Antena 3 (Atresmedia group), which attracted 5.012 million viewers on average during the match, for a 27.9% audience share. This figure allowed Antena 3 to achieve the best performance of the day in the Spanish television market.

In Germany, an average of 850,000 subscribers watched the match on the the pay-TV channel Sky Sports HD 2 (part of the Sky Deutschland group), via the multicast of the two German clubs' competing in the Champions League on Tuesday, 29/09/2015: FC Barcelona - Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Bayern Munich - GNK Dinamo Zagreb (5-0, Group F). This figure represents an audience share of 3% of the entire German public.

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