For major sports events, Eurodata TV Worldwide enables all sport and audiovisual professionals to track the ratings for all televised events.

Eurodata TV Worldwide presented, the ratings for the 1998 opening ceremony of the World Cup between Brazil and Scotland, and in 2000 the ratings for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, as soon as the events had been broadcasted.

This year, 32 teams find themselves in Korea and in Japan for the 2002 Football World Cup. Some supporters have actually gone there, while the majority will follow the event on television.

The daily international audiences

Eurodata TV Worldwide, the international databank for programmes and television ratings, are able to track in more than 70 countries, on a daily basis, the channels which are broadcasting this event.

Here, you can see the ratings for the live broadcast of the opening match between France and Senegal in more than 30 countries. The first results enable the analysis of the impact of the time differences around the world. We note, in several countries, especially in Western Europe, audience shares higher than 50% and more viewers.

EURODATA TV equally proposes a panorama of ratings for the World Cup : ‘World Cup 2002 Digest’ which will be available a fortnight after the end of the competition.

For further information, please contact:

Mickael HAGEGE – Tel : 00 33 1 47 58 97 30 – Fax : 00 33 1 47 58 64 24
E-mail : mhagege@mediametrie.fr / www.eurodatatv.com