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Fans in the stands in Munich, even more fans on the TV sets in Germany
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Federico Gambarini / dpa
The start of the European Championship for the German national soccer team gave ZDF an outstanding quota.
22.55 million viewers saw the 0-1 defeat against world champions France from 9 p.m.
The market share was 67.4 percent - which means that two out of three television viewers were watching football at the time.
After the break and the “heute journal” there were still 21.22 million (market share 63.0).
According to the industry service DWDL.de, there was particularly great interest among 14 to 49 year olds.
The market share there was 78.5 percent.
The first game of the day between Hungary and Portugal (0: 3) was followed by 6.44 million (market share 34.4).
Both teams are also opponents of the German national team in the preliminary round at the European Championship.
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