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The Voice Loses Ratings Battle With Champions League Final

PA  |  Posted: Updated: 20/05/2012 13:01   PA

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The Voice paid the penalty for Chelsea's Champions League heroics last night as it lost out in the ratings battle to the football.

Figures from ITV showed an average of almost 7 million tuned in from 7pm when the pre-match coverage started through to 10.30pm - compared to 4.2 million on BBC1 in the same time slot.

That includes a hefty chunk of The Voice which ran from 6.30pm to 8pm.

The Champions League final, won in dramatic fashion on penalties, reached a peak audience of 10.6 million and was the most watched programme on British television last night.

ITV figures show a peak audience of 6.5 million tuned into The Voice.

It means another bad week for the BBC talent search show which was beaten in the ratings last weekend by another final - this time for its rival Britain's Got Talent.

At one stage, when station bosses had scheduled a series of head-to-head clashes, The Voice had won the ratings battle for three consecutive weeks - but since then it has been losing pace as viewers have lost interest in the show.
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The Voice paid the penalty for Chelsea's Champions League heroics last night as it lost out in the ratings battle to the football. Figures from ITV showed an average of almost 7 million tuned in fr...
The Voice paid the penalty for Chelsea's Champions League heroics last night as it lost out in the ratings battle to the football. Figures from ITV showed an average of almost 7 million tuned in fr...
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Mac Howard
Thank god we got convicts, you got the puritans
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03:40 AM on 05/21/2012
Absolutely riveting drama - the CL Final that is, The Voice leaves me cold. And with the European Championships and the Olympic Games to follow then I'm happy as pig in you-know-what :)
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Mike Rossiter
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02:21 AM on 05/21/2012
I am not a footie fan, so we watched a dvd that night.
The Voice is a dreadful show, and the judges aare useless.
Jessie J wants to learn how to speak English properly and perhaps pronounce a few "t"s, and the Will bloke seems away with the fairies. Tom Jones is completely out of place, and I can't even remember the other bloke.
Most of the songs are unknown to a lot of us, the audience is the" rent a crowd of screaming females", and not one of the singers is standout.
No wonder it's lost four million viewers, me being one of them.
Time this badly done show was laid to rest
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Saumya Shrivastava
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05:57 PM on 05/20/2012
http://liveoncampus.com/wire/show/3381964
For the FIRST TIME they take away the Champions League Trophy home..!!
Check out all the Goals and penalties, best moments and the fan reaction here.
Chelsea stunned Bayern Munich in a dramatic penalty shoot-out at the Allianz Arena to win the Champions League for the first time.
Bayern largely held the upper hand throughout yet were unable to capitalise until Thomas Müller headed in with seven minutes remaining, and it looked like the trophy was heading to Munich for a fifth time. Chelsea and Didier Drogba had other ideas, the Ivorian levelling in the 88th minute with a powerful header, and when Petr Čech kept out Arjen Robben's penalty after Drogba had fouled Franck Ribéry early in extra time, their hopes rose even higher.

With neither side able to find a winner it took spot kicks to decide the contest, a prospect both sides were all too familiar with; Bayern's last triumph came in a 2001 shoot-out while Chelsea lost by the same method four years ago.
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