{"id":3300,"date":"2010-03-15T19:59:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2010-03-15T19:53:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:53:53","slug":"schumacher-return-sparks-huge-german-tv-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-return-sparks-huge-german-tv-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher return sparks huge German TV figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher&#8217;s return to formula one on Sunday triggered impressive television statistics within Germany.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The free to air broadcaster RTL said an average of more than 10 million viewers &#8211; a market share in excess of 50 per cent &#8211; tuned in to watch the seven time world champion finish the 2010 season opener in sixth place.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The average German audience in Bahrain last year was a little over 5 million.<\/p>\n<p>But Saturday&#8217;s German TV viewers were very unhappy after Schumacher&#8217;s decisive qualifying lap in &#8216;Q3&#8217; was not shown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael Schumacher&#8217;s onboard camera was unfortunately not working,&#8221; a spokesman for Formula One Management told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was also seventh, so the cameras were focused on the cars placed further forwards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher&#8217;s return to formula one on Sunday triggered impressive television statistics within Germany. \u00a0 The free to air broadcaster RTL said an average of more than 10 million viewers &#8211; a market share in excess of 50 per cent &#8211; tuned in to watch the seven time world champion finish the 2010 season opener &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,927,926,92,925],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}