The first showed part 2 of “Lost in Fuseta – A crime thriller from Portugal: Trail of Shadows” on Saturday evening (April 6th), while “The Quiz Champion” with Johannes B. Kerner was shown on ZDF. The tenth season of “The Masked Singer” started on ProSieben and “Because they don’t know what’s happening – The Jauch-Gottschalk-Schöneberger Show” was shown on RTL. Sat.1 showed the film “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” in prime time, while kabel eins wanted to score points with the series “Manifest” and VOX wanted to score points with the animated film “Despicable Me”. RTLZWEI showed the film “Hot Shots – The Mother of All Films!” from 8:15 p.m. But which format was able to attract the most viewers to the screen?
“Lost in Fuseta” has the edge
The winner in the ratings duel on Saturday evening was the “Tagesschau” on the first (8:00 p.m.). 5.42 million people watched the news program – that corresponded to a market share of 26.3 percent. “Lost in Fuseta – A crime thriller from Portugal” (Das Erste, 8:15 p.m.) is in second place: 4.75 million viewers tuned in (market share: 20.6 percent). “Sportschau” (Das Erste, 6:28 p.m.) took third place with 3.63 million people and a market share of 23.4 percent. Bitter defeat for ProSieben: The first show of the current season of “The Masked Singer” did not make it into the ten most watched formats (total viewers).
However, the mask show scored well with the young audience, even if it was only enough for second place: 0.67 million people between the ages of 14 and 49 tuned in. This corresponds to a market share of 15.5 percent. Here too, the “Tagesschau” was in first place (0.74 million people, market share 20.5 percent), while “Because they don’t know what’s happening – The Jauch-Gottschalk-Schöneberger-Show” (0.56) came in third million people, market share 14 percent).
This is how TV ratings are determined
The audience ratings are determined in around 5,000 representative households. These serve as a “reduced image of all private households with at least one television set in Germany” – according to AGF Videoforschung GmbH. The company is responsible for data collection and both ARD and ZDF as well as private broadcasters and corporations are involved. The data has been collected since 1963, although there was a change in 2016: Since then, only households in which the main income earner speaks German are included. The measurement is carried out by devices that record sound signals on the television and compare them with the audio patterns of the television channels. Since 2020, the range of has also been increased in some representative households Streaming– Offers measured.
The original for this article “”Lost in Fuseta” or “The Masked Singer”? Bitter defeat in the ratings duel” comes from TV feature film.