TV ratings Hungary 2023: Sky with the second best Formula 1 rating of the year

(Motorsport-Whole.com) – The 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix on the Hungaroring close to Budapest introduced blended outcomes to TV stations in Germany and Austria on the finish of the primary half of the System 1 season. (Get our odds overview for the current 2023 season here!)

In Germany, pay-TV broadcaster Sky achieved its second-best end result this 12 months with 855,000 viewers after the opening race in Bahrain, which attracted 891,000 followers in entrance of their TV units. With a market share of 6.6 p.c, Sky was precisely on the stage of 2022.

Nonetheless, the scale of the viewers means a major enhance in comparison with earlier years: in 2021, 628,000 watched the Grand Prix close to Budapest, in 2022 there have been 788,000 tv followers.

As a result of one other 182,000 viewers watched the race with the Sky streaming supply in 2023, the speed for the pay TV broadcaster elevated to 1.04 million viewers.

However even that doesn’t replicate the whole viewers of Sky in Hungary, as a result of the broadcaster additionally broadcast the race as a freely accessible YouTube stay stream. One other 120,000 to 150,000 followers adopted the motion (actual figures are nonetheless pending) and gave Sky a complete attain of over 1.1 million viewers.

Common values ​​at ServusTV in Austria

In Austria, ServusTV was once more entrusted with the System 1 broadcast as scheduled on the weekend. 506,000 viewers opted for the supply of the personal broadcaster, which thus achieved a complete market share of 43.3 p.c and over 50 p.c within the goal group of twelve to 49 years.

It is a blended end result for ServusTV: With 643,000 viewers, the broadcaster additionally achieved its finest results of the season up to now in the beginning in Bahrain, however with 452,000 viewers in Monaco it did worse than it’s now in Hungary.

The curiosity within the Grand Prix on the Hungaroring was positively higher in Austria: in 2021, ServusTV had thrilled 617,000 viewers with its broadcast, ORF even 744,000 followers in 2022. The 2023 values ​​are due to this fact declining for each of the earlier 12 months’s values.

The next Belgium Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps on July twenty eighth can solely be seen in Germany once more on Sky, in Austria once more on ServusTV. The ORF won’t return to stay reporting till the Italian Grand Prix in Monza after the summer season break.