A total of 23.6 million viewers watched Sunday evening the speech of President Emmanuel Macron, on all the channels that retransmitted it, representing a combined audience share of 85.6%, according to data from Médiamétrie broadcast Monday.
Far from the record of previous speeches
This speech, of just under 20 minutes, was broadcast by several historic channels (TF1, France 2, France 3, M6 and by news channels). TF1 carved out the lion's share during this speech with 10.4 million viewers (representing an audience share of 37.7%), ahead of France 2 (6.8 million viewers and 24.5% of audience share) ), M6 (2.8 million / 10.3%) and France 3 (1.7 million / 6.3%). The details for the news channels will be known at the end of the morning.
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This score, although very high, is far from the absolute audience record set by the president during the confinement: his speech on April 13 had been followed by 36.7 million viewers. Previously, 35.4 million spectators had watched the speech on March 16.