RMC SPORT – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 AT 9 PM – FOOTBALL
The kick-off is scheduled for 9 pm, but the aerial coverage around the event is announced from 1:30 pm On the occasion of 8e first leg of the Champions League between FC Barcelona and Paris-Saint-Germain, RMC Sport, exclusive broadcaster of the prestigious European competition for a few more months, has decided to play the big game by offering multiple meetings before that Messi and Mbappé do not find themselves on the lawn of the huge Camp Nou, facing nearly 100,000 empty places, health crisis requires.
If the poster between Catalans and Parisians is nothing original, the two clubs having had the opportunity to meet on multiple occasions on the European scene since the mid-1990s, it remains a special meeting for the PSG, eager to settle down for good in the small circle of the real “big ones” of Europe, of which FC Barcelona has long been a part, along with Real Madrid, Bayern, Juventus and a slew of of English clubs.
To mark the occasion, RMC Sport therefore puts the small dishes in the big ones with, from 1:30 p.m., the replay of the quarter-final return PSG-Barcelona (2-1) of the 1994-1995 season. At 3:15 p.m., another replay with PSG-Barça on February 14, 2017 and the Parisian triumph (4-0). At 5 p.m., amazement and tremors await, with the return match played on March 8, 2017 and the now legendary remount of FC Barcelona, victorious 6-1.
Beautiful audiences
At 6:45 p.m., PSG’s route this season in the Champions League will be analyzed before Jean-Baptiste Boursier presents the pre-match at 7:30 p.m., in the company of Louis Saha, former Manchester United scorer. At 9 p.m., the live match from Camp Nou will be commented by Jérôme Sillon and Jérôme Rothen.
This special day will continue at 11 pm with “L’Après-Match”, a program during which, for an hour, the key actions of the match will be analyzed and the testimonies of Parisian players will be collected.
The audience expected by RMC Sport should be satisfactory for the channel, but its relatively small number of subscribers makes the prestigious competition lose visibility, which, from next season and until 2024, will be broadcast again. on Canal +. The assurance of higher audiences than on RMC Sport, in the range of single to double.
For the record, the matches between Parisians and Catalans broadcast on Canal + have always recorded good audiences: 3.8 million (absolute record for Canal +) on April 2, 2013, during the quarter-final first leg, then 3.5 million on the return. In 2014, they were 2.3 million for the group stage match and 2.7 million for the quarterfinal in April 2015. Finally, on March 8, 2017, 2.2 million viewers connected to Canal + had attended the cruel remounted.
