The sports show odds have been in absolute descent since the restart of the Bundesliga. And that despite the sometimes well-known pairings.
- The ball has been rolling in the Bundesliga * again since mid-May
- All football fans had been looking forward to the restart during the lockdown
- However , there is nothing to be seen in the ratings of the sports show
Munich / Mainz - It was a very difficult time for Germany during the lockdown period. Not only that all shops and restaurants were closed. No, football also paused in the weddings of the coronavirus pandemic.
And so it wasn't just the football fans who were pushing for the Bundesliga restart * . The Bavarian and North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Ministers also spoke early in unison in favor of resuming football soon . Probably the only aspect during the corona lockdown * in which Markus Söder and Armin Laschet agreed.
In the course of the readiness of politics, the DFL worked hard on a hygiene concept in order to resume the game operation under strict conditions. On May 16, it was finally time again - with the 26. Round celebrated the Bundesliga * after almost ten weeks of interruption of their re-start . The fight for the German championship * was reopened, even if it seems to have been quickly resolved by now.
Bundesliga: sports show odds in absolute descent! ARD coordinator has a guess
But apparently not all Germans celebrate the comeback of what is actually their favorite child. The number of spectators at the sports show has been falling steadily since the Bundesliga * was restarted . In the end, only 3.30 million people wanted to see the classic on ARD on Saturday. "We are noticing a noticeable decline in interest at the moment," ARD sports coordinator Axel Balkausky told the German press agency.
The first sports show after the Corona break with their game summaries had seen an average of 4.11 million fans, the second 3.77 million. Before the Corona crisis , the average of the sports show was significantly higher at 4.81 million.
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- Sports Show (@sportschau) June 2, 2020The programs' market shares after the restart slipped below 20 percent each - around five percentage points less than before the forced break. “We also had fewer viewers of the two programs over the past week, especially on Wednesday, than usually during the English weeks - despite the Dortmund-Bayern game. It's a shame, ”commented Balkausky.
Bundesliga: Sports show puzzles why the rate drops so much
ARD is still puzzling over the causes . "I do not know if the outstanding viewer interest is also a protest," said the sports coordinator. "But football doesn't seem to be as important to some people as it is now."
But maybe football without spectators doesn't have the entertainment value as usual? Or do people have problems other than winning or losing their favorite club? It was not for nothing that there was a time before Corona - and a time after ...
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