[Leica] Most watched sporting event - definitive answer

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Larry,
That is what I read, and I read later that the viewership for the India-Sri
Lanka final had been higher than the India-Pakistan semi final.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> The largest global TV audience in 1997 was 2.5 billion for the funeral of
> Princess Diana.
> Largest TV audience for sports broadcasts are:
> Leading the field is the semi final match between India and Pakistan at the
> 2011 cricket world cup, which was watched by over 1 billion people
> Second is the FIFA World Cup Final, which attracted more than double the
> global audience of any other sporting event in 2006. The Italy vs.France
> match was watched by an average live global audience of 260 million people,
> with more than 600 million people tuning in to watch at least some part of
> the match.
> In second place was the NFL Super Bowl, relinquishing its number one
> ranking
> from 2005. The match between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle
> Seahawks drew an average live global audience of 98 million in 2006, an
> increase on the 93 million who watched the Super Bowl last year.
> The Opening Ceremony of the IOC Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, comes in
> at third place, drawing an average live global audience of 87 million.
> However, when comparing total audience numbers as opposed to average, more
> people watched the Opening Ceremony than the NFL Super Bowl. 249 million
> people tuned in to snatch a glimpse of the Opening Ceremony at some point,
> compared with only 151 million for the Super Bowl.
>
> Larry Z
>
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