Broadcast Wednesday evening on Canal+ and Canal+ Foot, the PSG/Arsenal match (2-1) allowed the encrypted channel to beat its absolute audience record for a football match.
It seems far away when PSG did not bring together 1.26 million viewers on Canal+ against Atlético Madrid on November 6, and even only 1.23 million on Canal+ Foot against Bayern Munich three weeks later. Since the round of 16 go to Liverpool, the audiences for PSG in Champions League have exploded and have each time exceeded the 2 million viewers’ mark. The 2-1 victory against Arsenal Wednesday evening even exceeded the symbolic bar of the 4 million viewers.
4.14 million viewers in front of PSG/Arsenal
While the first leg Arsenal/PSG (0-1) had simply been broadcast on Canal+ Foot, attracting 2.74 million viewers, the PSG/Arsenal return (2-1) was broadcast both on Canal+ and Canal+ Foot. All Canal subscribers therefore had access to this return semi-final and the Canal group announced this Thursday that it had established its absolute record for a football match with 4.14 million viewers Faced with the victory of the men of Luis Enrique on Wednesday evening and a peak at 4.6 million.
A record which Maxime Saada, the CEO of the Canal group, on social networks, he who was at the Parc des Princes park on Wednesday evening. At a time when Dazn is getting closer to the release in Ligue 1, will this historic audience make the Canal group want to return to the negotiation table for TV rights of Ligue 1? Last week, The team revealed that Canal+ was very interested in the idea of participating in the 100% Ligue 1 channel project imagined by the LFP and which is gaining more and more weight, with the desire to offer this channel at a price of 10 euros/month to its subscribers.
PSG hearings in Champions League this season:
- PSG/Girona on Canal+: 1.34 million
- Arsenal/PSG on Canal+ Foot: 1.48 million
- PSG/PSV on Canal+ Foot: not communicated
- PSG/Atlético on Canal+: 1.26 million
- Bayern/PSG on Canal+ Foot: 1.23 million
- Salzburg/PSG on Canal+ Foot: not communicated
- PSG/Manchester City on Canal+: 1.68 million
- Stuttgart/PSG on Canal+ Foot: not communicated because multiplex
- Brest/PSG on Canal+ Foot: 1.36 million
- PSG/Brest on Canal+ Foot: not communicated
- PSG/Liverpool on Canal+: 2.31 million
- Liverpool/PSG on Canal+ Foot: 2.38 million
- PSG/Aston Villa on Canal+: 2.73 million
- Aston Villa/PSG on Canal+ Foot: 2.57 million
- Arsenal/PSG on Canal+ Foot: 2.74 million
- PSG/Arsenal on Canal+ and Canal+ Foot: 4.14 million
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