Winterberg (pps) The Viessmann Luge World Cup in Winterberg (GER) generated the season’s best luge TV ratings. An average of 3.51 million spectators followed the quintuple success of the home nation’s athletes in the men’s singles on the country’s public TV station ARD. This translates into a market share of 24.1 percent. At the same time, the transmission made it to 10th place of the Top 10 list of ARD sports broadcasts on Saturday (January 21, 2012). About 3.69 million TV viewers watched the Team Relay Event on Sunday, which translates into a market share of 19.1 percent (seventh place on the ARD rankings). The TV ratings in the doubles (1.05 million spectators / 15.2 percent market share) and women’s singles (2.72 million viewers / 19.4 percent market share) were equally good.