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More than 21 million Spaniards followed the traditional end-of-the-year chimes on television (94.4% screen share), 4.4 million more than in 2019, when 16.6 million Spaniards followed them, according to a study prepared by Barlovento Comunicación on data from Kantar Media.

In the study released this Saturday, January 2, the audience of the following 32 channels that, according to Kantar Media's coding, retransmitted the bells: La 1, Antena 3, TV3, Telecinco, La 2, laSexta, Canal Sur, A Punt , Cuatro, TVG, Aragón TV, ETB1, Canal 24 hours, Telemadrid, ETB2, CMM, TPA, FDF, Energy, La 7TV, BEMADtv, International Telemadrid, Divinity, IB3, CSUR-AND, TNT, TPA2, Mediterranean TV, IB3 Global, Laotra and Canal Extremadura TV.

According to the report, La 1 de TVE, with

Anne Igartiburu and Ana García Obregón

, has once again become the channel preferred by viewers to drink the twelve grapes and welcome the new year 2021, with more than 7.3 million viewers.

However, it is down 2.2 points compared to 2019.

On Antena 3, Cristina Pedroche and Alberto Chicote

have once again broken their audience record for the eighth consecutive year with 6.1 million viewers and a 27.5% audience share, "their historical record."

The Catalan autonomous region, TV3, was the third most watched, with more than 1.5 million viewers and a 44.5% audience share in its broadcasting area.

Cristina Pedroche poses with her minidress for the bells.-EFE

These data have made it grow 5.5 points compared to 2019. On the other hand, in Telecinco a total of 1,445,000 viewers (6.5% of screen share) said goodbye to the year with Sandra Barneda and Christian Gálvez, who they descend to the fourth position.

In fifth place is La Sexta, where the presenters Cristina Pardo and Iñaki López repeated.

They achieved an audience of 968,000 viewers and a 4.3% share.

In addition,

the sum of La 1, La 2 and Canal 24 Horas amounted to 8,621,000 viewers

and a 39.9%

audience

share, with a 1.1 point drop in share

compared

to last year.

Regarding the set of channels of the Mediaset Spain group that broadcast the bells in 'simulcast' (Telecinco, Cuatro, Divinity, Energy, FDF and BemadTV), they added 1,871,000 viewers and 8.4% share, which represents a decrease of 4.2 points.

The report highlights that television consumption during the twelve bells

broke a historical record with 22.3 million viewers

watching television in the last minute of 2020.

Ibai Llanos sweeps

But the name of the night was undoubtedly the Bilbao-born Ibai Llanos who achieved a real audience success with his online broadcasting through the Twitch platform, who opted for the first time in its history to give the chimes live.

It achieved more than 500,000 views in the golden minute.

The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, was one of those who started the year laughing with him and even congratulated him in networks.

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