The annual Eurovision Song Contest, considered to be one of the world's longest running and most-watched reality television franchises, annually attracted a peak of 600 million viewers during the mid-to-late 1980s. television is rivaled by European television programming and television dramas from Latin America and Asia. In recent decades, the global popularity of U.S.
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All of these are currently syndicated in more than 100 countries, and rank among the most-watched television series in the world, extending their dominance to a three-decade span. medical dramas and police procedurals such as House, and the CSI and NCIS franchises. This trend was initiated by U.S.-made broadcast network soap operas and sitcoms such as Dallas, M*A*S*H, The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, Friends and The Big Bang Theory by the mid-2000s, and then in the late 2000s and 2010s by U.S. television programming remains one of the most popular forms of entertainment worldwide. It's been expected that, in the 1970s, every single episode of the Mexican comedy show El Chavo del Ocho, created, directed, produced and starred by Roberto Gómez Bolaños "Chespirito", was watched by about 350 million people across Latin America when it premiered both this show and some of Mexican telenovelas are among the world's most-watched non-U.S.-produced television series. Prominent personalities in the 1990s and 2000s such as David Hasselhoff and Mexico's Thalia (currently based in the U.S.) starred in primetime series such as the Las Tres Marias trilogy shows ( Maria Mercedes, Marimar and Maria la del Barrio), Rosalinda and Baywatch, which were broadcast in about 180 countries. The concert was subject to a live audience of 450,000 and was broadcast to 35 countries, with an estimated broadcasting audience of 500 million to 1 billion people. In 1990, Roger Waters played a concert in Berlin known as The Wall – Live in Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was one of the largest-scale television events of all time, watched across 150 nations, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion who watched the live broadcast. Many similar events happened the same day in other countries, such as the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia, Austria, Australia and West Germany. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people). Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. It became an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on 13 July 1985. The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 was watched by an estimated 2 billion people globally, making it the all-time most-watched royal event on live television in the world. His final fight, in which he lost to the reigning IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, attracted around 500 million people. Īnother heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko regularly attracted between 300 and 500 million viewers worldwide during his long reign as world heavyweight champion during the 2000s to mid 2010s.
The 1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, where Muhammad Ali lit the torch, was watched by an estimated 3.5 billion viewers. Estimates of Ali's worldwide television audiences for his " Rumble in the Jungle" fight against George Foreman in 1974, " Thrilla in Manila" fight against Joe Frazier in 1975, rematch against Leon Spinks in 1978, and " Last Hurrah" fight against Larry Holmes in 1980, range between 1 billion and 2 billion people. The boxer Muhammad Ali drew record global television audiences during the 1970s to early 1980s. On 20 July 1969, an estimated 652 million people watched the live global broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon landing (this constituted around one fifth of total population of the world at the time), despite the fact that the first moonwalk took place in the middle of the night in Europe (at 01:56 in Iceland 02:56 in Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom 03:56 in Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia and 04:56 in Finland, Greece and Turkey) and it was not broadcast on television or radio in the Eastern Bloc (except in Romania (04:56) and Poland (03:56)). ( August 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources.
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