Victory against Netherlands
Top odds for the DFB: Everyone wants to see the national team
The DFB footballers interested the TV audience more than Kafka: Ilkay Gündogan (left) and Nathan Ake put in a lot of effort in the international match between Germany and the Netherlands.
© Arne Dedert / DPA
The victory of the German national soccer team against the Netherlands gave RTL top ratings. It is even higher than the France game. The ARD has no chance against this on Tuesday evening.
The victory of the German national soccer team against the Netherlands has RTL has a very strong TV rating. According to the Cologne broadcaster, an average of 10.81 million people saw the 2-1 on Tuesday evening. The market share was 41.0 percent.
The broadcast from Frankfurt reached more TV viewers than the 2-0 win on Saturday in Lyon against France on ZDF with 10.121 million (39.1 percent market share). For RTL it was the most successful international match broadcast since March 2019.
Franz Kafka had no chance against football: the ARD drama series “Kafka” on the 100th anniversary of the writer’s death was completely lost in the linear broadcast on Tuesday evening. Just 2.04 million viewers (7.5 percent) tuned in to the first from 8:15 p.m. By the third episode, which ended at 10:30 p.m., this figure was halved to 1.00 million (4.0 percent). For comparison: ARD series like “In aller Freunde” usually reach around four million on the same time slot. However, the series with Joel Basman as Kafka, David Kross as Max Brod and Lia von Blarer as Felice Bauer has been available in the media library since March 20th.
DFB team attracts more spectators than Kafka
ZDF did best with its romantic counter-program: The second showed the romantic drama “Inga Lindström: Beloved Sven” and attracted 3.91 million (14.1 percent). ZDFneo had the North German thriller “Ostfriesenangst” with Julia Jentsch in its program, which was watched by 1.19 million (4.3 percent) crime thriller fans.
Kabel Eins relied on the American action comedy “Beverly Hills Cop II” with Eddie Murphy. The 1987 feature film attracted 810,000 people (3.0 percent). The US series “The Irrational – Criminally Logical” on Sat.1 also had 810,000 viewers (2.9 percent). ProSieben broadcast the ranking show “The world is amazed by this – The weirdest Gaga stories”, which 580,000 people (2.2 percent) wanted to see.
The social report “Hartz Rot Gold – Poverty Map Germany” was shown on RTLzwei, with 560,000 fans (2.1 percent) spending the evening there. On Vox, the dating show “Heart on Board – Freshly in Love on the High Seas” had 530,000 viewers (2.0 percent).