Czech WBC games made new television record
Czech games at World Baseball Classic stirred interest even outside the baseball community as new records were broken at Czech Television.
As mentioned on his Twitter account by Robert Záruba, the first game against China was watched by 105 000 viewers (start at 4am CET) and cumulative reach was 390 000 viewers. The game against Japan went even further (played at 11am CET) watched by 240 000 fans, with cumulative reach of 840 000 viewers. As Záruba, along with Michal Dusík mentioned, this was the most watched baseball game in the country in the history of the television.
European Championship, played in autumn, will too be televised by ČT Sport, which is a great news. Let’s hope that the interest of the fans remains and ČT Sport will include more Extraliga games.
