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Bayern’s Champions League Exit Sets Reported DAZN Record as TV Metrics Miss Streaming

The viewing surge points to streaming as the main driver of reach that traditional German TV ratings do not fully count.

Overview

  • Bayern went out of the Champions League after a 1-1 second leg against PSG that followed a 5-4 first-leg defeat on aggregate.
  • DAZN drew about 2.3 million viewers in total for the match, according to BILD’s summary of the platform’s measurements.
  • That reported total included an estimated 1.6 million streams and a net reach of roughly 615,000 on the DAZN1 TV channel, which infers people per screen from counted households.
  • Standard TV ratings from AGF logged an average of 220,000 viewers on DAZN 1 HD across 19:30 to midnight, a broad window that makes April’s Bayern–Real figures hard to compare on a like-for-like basis.
  • Interest was wide across other outlets as Sport1’s Fantalk hit a season-high 260,000 and ZDF’s late ZDFsportstudio averaged 1.54 million with the first free-TV highlights, while fragmented measurement still leaves the true total reach uncertain.