First audience figures in for Euro 2008
- 12 Jun 08, 11:09 AM
The doom-mongers have been proved wrong about Euro 2008. It has unquestionably had a big hole in it because of the failure of the home nations to qualify. But audiences are still coming to it in large numbers and I am 100 per cent confident they will grow further.
The biggest TV audience so far was a peak of over seven million for Netherlands v Italy on ITV1. So we are looking forward to France taking on the Dutch on BBC One on Friday night and then the France v Italy clash next Tuesday. But other figures have been strong too; more than five million watched Germany v Poland and a large tea-time audience tuned in for Spain's thrilling performance against Russia.
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