{"id":7309,"date":"2010-07-26T06:51:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T10:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7309"},"modified":"2010-07-26T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T10:51:18","slug":"german-broadcaster-rtl-not-disappointed-with-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/german-broadcaster-rtl-not-disappointed-with-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"German broadcaster RTL not disappointed with Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s free to air television broadcaster has denied it is disappointed with Michael Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s Hockenheim race was not a sellout, and predicted astronomical TV ratings earlier this year have now subsided, given the seven time world champion&#8217;s modest return to formula one in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>An impressive 10 million Germans tuned into his comeback race in Bahrain, but the average figure is now between 5 and 7 million per race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are far from disappointed,&#8221; spokesman Matthias Bolhofer told Der Spiegel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On average we are 1.13 million higher than last year&#8217;s average.\u00a0 That we would not be able to keep up the hype of the opening race was obvious,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Schumacher, there are five other German drivers on the 2010 grid.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s free to air television broadcaster has denied it is disappointed with Michael Schumacher. Sunday&#8217;s Hockenheim race was not a sellout, and predicted astronomical TV ratings earlier this year have now subsided, given the seven time world champion&#8217;s modest return to formula one in 2010. An impressive 10 million Germans tuned into his comeback race &#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":[5262,5340,2024,34,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309"}],"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=7309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions\/7310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}