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Not a fencing example specifically, but in Poland skijumping effectively didn't exist until 2001. Then because of Adam Małysz, a record viewership has been esta
by viraptor 2y ago
Not a fencing example specifically, but in Poland skijumping effectively didn't exist until 2001. Then because of Adam Małysz, a record viewership has been established for national TV - during skijumping championships. That record has not been replaced until at least 2022 (I don't have more recent data, maybe it still stands). The largest football matches had millions fewer people watching. For more context the 10 most viewed events were: 4x skijump, pl-vs-rus football, 3x skijump, JP2 funeral, pl-vs-cze football.
It could happen to fencing as well or any other random sport with enough luck.
- echoangle 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Poland#Viewing_shares https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Poland#Viewing_s... There are 6 football games with higher viewership than the 2002 Olympic ski jumping. Also, viewers per year would be a better metric, one single event with a lot of viewer probably gives you less ad revenue than an event every week with half the viewers.
- viraptor 2y agohttps://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/m/artykul/hity-telewizyjne-historycznie-zasieg-skoki-adam-malysz-pilka-nozna-ranking-top-50 https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/m/artykul/hity-telewizyjne-his... They're looking at a different set of TV stations.