Nice performance for Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs, who attracted an average of 698,000 viewers on Canal+, while the match was broadcast unencrypted, for the first NBA Paris Game 2025.
It's probably a little more since the meeting was also broadcast on beIN Sports, but the Qatari channel does not share its audiences.
With 3.5% market share, it is the 6th audience of the evening, behind the series and TV films from TF1 and M6 (“Panda” and “Until death unites us”) which for their part brought together 16.7% and 15.8% of viewers, or respectively 3.3 and 2.9 million people in front of their small screen.
Nevertheless, as noted by L’Equipeit is almost twice as many as the match between Chicago and Detroit which was played in Paris in 2023, and which only attracted 376,000 curious people in front of Canal+.
There was also a peak of 847,000 viewers watching the match at 9:04 p.m. For the NBA, which is hesitant to return to Paris next year, it is in any case a sign that Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs have a real power of attraction on the French public. And for the Grande Ligue, which absolutely wanted the match to be accessible to all, TF1 and M6 having even inquired about broadcasting it, it is always a valuable exposure factor.
