SoccerAmerica - Almost 5.8 million viewers watch Euro 2012 final 07/05/2012

By Paul Kennedy

Spain's 4-0 win over Italy in the Euro 2012 drew 4,068,000 viewers on ESPN, up 8 percent over the audience that watched Spain win Euro 2008 on ABC. An additional 1,125,000 viewers watched the final on the ESPN Deportes, making it the most-watched telecast ever on the Spanish-language network, and 563,000 watched on computers, smart phones and other digital devices.

Euro 2012 averaged 1.3 million viewers on ESPN and ESPN2, up 51 percent over 2008, and ESPN Deportes averaged 324,000 viewers for its live coverage, up 138 percent from 2008.

The top markets for ESPN's coverage: New York (2.1), Miami-Fort Lauderdale (2.0), Providence, R.I. (1.7), Los Angeles (1.5), San Francisco and Washington, D.C. (1.4).

EUROPEAN VIEWING NUMBERS. The audience for Spain-Italy on Spanish network Telecinco peaked at 17.8 million viewers for a 90 percent share. Those audience figures did not include those who watched the games on gigantic screens installed across Spanish cities. Other audiences across Europe: 22.5 million on Italy's RAI Uno, 20.3 million on Germany's ZDF and 12.9 million on France's TF1 and 12.3 million viewers on England's BBC1.

SPAIN ALSO WINS ON TWITTER. Spain's fourth goal against Italy in Sunday’s Euro 2012 final triggered 15,358 tweets per second, setting a new sports record on Twitter. The previous record: roughly 10,000 tweets per second at the end of Super Bowl XLVI. The most popular players at Euro 2012 in terms of mentions were Cristiano Ronaldo, Mario Balotelli and Fernando Torres. The most retweeted post: Miami Heat star and Liverpool minority owner LeBron James' congratulatory tweet after the final.

WORTH READING. MarketWatch's Sam Mamudi recently looked at how the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Galaxy, two seeming rivals on the SoCal sports scene, have been teaming up to tap into each other's fan support. The Galaxy even held a Dodger Night at the Home Depot Center, and there will be an L.A. Galaxy Night at Dodger Stadium on July 30.
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1 comment

Ernest Irelan

commented on: July 6, 2012 at 10:22 a.m.

sure took the puffed up pose from Balotelli after the final game. Did anyone catch the shot of him walking from field an shoving a person away from him? A real display of his true attitude. Not the shirt off pose in the semi game he did...but, the still so called mean look he poses much of the time...every players has a day that he excells, a day that he does not...get used to it sonny.

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