An average of 3.2 million viewers watched the ARD live broadcast of the German footballers’ 2-1 defeat in the Nations League semi-finals in France on Friday evening. 3.19 million fans meant a market share of 13.1 percent for the first.
In the ARD daily rankings, interim national coach Horst Hrubesch’s team’s ultimately unsuccessful fight for the first chance to qualify for the Olympics only reached third place.
More viewers saw the 8 p.m. edition of the Tagesschau (3.8 million viewers/market share: 15.5 percent) and the evening’s quiz show “Who knows something like that?” (3.53/21.0). The live images from the Ski Flying World Cup in Oberstdorf on ARD attracted 2.28 million people to the screens late on Friday afternoon and meant sixth place in the ARD Friday ranking (MA: 16.6).