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Russian league back on German TV while Sky gets record audience for Der Klassiker | News | Sportcal

Russian league back on German TV while Sky gets record audience for Der Klassiker | News | Sportcal: However, at the weekend, the attention of German soccer fans was focused on Der Klassiker, the latest instalment in the rivalry between Bayern and Dortmund.

Bayern’s 5-0 win on Saturday evening, which enabled the Munich club to overtake their opponents at the top of the Bundeslgia, attracted a record average audience of 2.2 million viewers for Sky.

A further 300,000 tuned in for the live coverage on the Sky Go streaming service.

The linear TV audience was up on the 2.05 million for the first Bundesliga meeting of Bayern and Dortmund this season.

The match achieved an audience share of 10 per cent, a figure that rose to 21.4 per cent in the core target group of men aged 14 to 59.

Across the weekend, some 4.88 million viewers watched live Bundesliga games on Sky, with a further 548,000 on Sky Go, making it the second most popular round of fixtures this season.

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