TV sports broadcasts 2010: Holland-Spain with the most viewers
Last year, more than one million sports fans tuned in to each of nine live television broadcasts. The largest audience was for the World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain: 1.37 million people watched it on Swiss Television (SF).
In second and third place were the broadcasts of the Switzerland-Honduras football World Cup match and the men's downhill race at the Olympic Games. 1.29 million watched the Swiss footballers' draw and 1.23 million watched Didier Défago's downhill victory, as SF reported on Wednesday according to SDA.
Most of Swiss television's other successful sports programs last year were also direct broadcasts of World Cup football matches and Winter Olympics events. The decisive jump by Simon Ammann on the large hill in Vancouver was watched by 1.15 million people on SF. The football matches Chile-Switzerland, Germany-Spain and Spain-Switzerland as well as the SuperG and the second run of the men's giant slalom reached an average audience of between 1.0 and 1.1 million.
Of the 100 most-watched sports programs, 93 were broadcasts of football matches or the Winter Olympics. The others were the election of the Sportsman or Sportswoman of the Year (14th place), the final round of the Swiss Wrestling Festival (32nd place) and the ice hockey World Cup match between Switzerland and Germany (57th place). The 8th round of the Swiss Wrestling Festival reached 81st place, while two tennis finals and the Federer-Nadal Tennis Charity Night also made it into the top 100 (64, 70, 77).
