PSG struck a new big blow on Wednesday in its first leg of the Champions League quarter -finals. A month after offering the Liverpool scalp after a double confrontation decided on penalties, the capital's club took it 3-1 against Aston Villa, thus taking a serious option on the qualification for the semi-finals.
Again impressive and exciting, PSG never ceases to seduce the Parisian supporters and not only and Canal+, the main diffuser of the Champions League, rubs its hands. This time, Canal had also scheduled the meeting on its premium channel and the latter took the opportunity to sign its best audience of the season.
According to the mediametry figures, they were indeed 2.73 million viewers to follow the meeting between PSG and Aston Villa, which represents no less than 15% audience shares. At the end of the first period, a peak was even observed at more than 3 million viewers.
Canal, the first national channel on the match time tranche
For comparison, the return match of the round of 16 between PSG and Liverpool, scheduled on Canal+ Foot, had been followed by 2.38 million viewers, or 14% of audiences. The encrypted channel therefore won nearly 400,000 viewers in a month.
Thanks to this pretty score, Canal+ also signed the second best audience of the evening, only preceded by TF1 and the fourth sensitive business part embodied by Vincent Elbaz. The series was watched by 2.94 million viewers, or 15.7% of the public. Canal was nevertheless the first national channel during the meeting, between 9 p.m. and 10:53 p.m.
