Last Tuesday’s Manchester City-Barcelona match set a new viewing record for a UEFA Champions League match on Fox Sports 1. The first-leg match in the round-of-16 series won by Barca, 2-1, attracted anaverage of 779,000 viewers, the biggest audience for a UEFA Champions League match on cable since the 2009 Barcelona-Manchester United final on ESPN averaged 1.4 million viewers.

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