Ligue 1 Conforama: 1.65 million viewers for PSG - Troyes on free-TV on C8 (audience share: 7.2%)
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- ESTAC Troyes (2-0), the closing match of the mid-week Matchday 15 of the 2017-18 Ligue 1 Conforama, and the first match of this season broadcast free-to-air on C8, the free DTT
Digital Terrestrial Television
channel belonging to the Canal+
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group, a subsidiary of Vivendi, drew 1.651 million viewers on average, on Wednesday 29/11/2017 (kick-off at 21:00 CET
Central European Time
).
This figure represented an audience share of 7.2%, and allowed C8 achieved the fifth best performance, in number of viewers, in the French television market for prime time on 29/11/2017.
The match, co-broadcast on pay-TV on Canal+, drew 1 million subscribers on the pay channel (audience share: 4.4%). So a total of 2.651 million viewers in France watched the game. Olympique de Marseille - PSG (2-2, Matchday 11), is the best audience of the 2017-18 Ligue 1 Conforama season on Canal+, with 2.57 million viewers on average (audience share: 10.1%), on 22/10/2017 (kick-off at 21:00).
- PSG - ESTAC Troyes was the first match broadcast on free-TV by the Canal+ group since it has held rights to Ligue 1 (since 1984).
- This game was part of an exceptional programming operation on C8, ahead of the 2017 end-of-year celebrations.
- C8 will also broadcast, in this context, the game of Matchday 12 of the French Top 14 Rugby Championship: RC Toulonnais - LOU Rugby, on Saturday 02/12/2017 (kick-off at 20:15 CET).
2017-18 Ligue 1 Conforama: TV audiences of the games on Canal+