Jonas Vingegaard popped the champagne, and France Télé too!

The Tour de France was followed by four million people on average in the afternoon on France 2, a record since 2011 despite an overall number of viewers in slight decline, according to figures released Monday by France Télévisions.

In total, 41.5 million French people watched the Grande Boucle for at least a minute on the antennas of the public group (France 2 and France 3), against 42.4 million last year, according to a press release.

In question, in particular, the fact that the Tour started “a week later” than usual, in July and not in June, and on a Friday rather than a Saturday, explained to AFP Laurent-Eric Le Lay , the sports director of France Télé.

A record since 2003

But "people watched the Tour for longer", with an average of 5 hours 41 minutes per Frenchman, or 17 minutes more than in 2021 and a highest since 2011.

Above all, the afternoons on France 2 brought together an average of 4 million viewers from 3 p.m. for an audience share (PDA) of 41.3%, a record since 2011. Four stages even exceeded "5 million viewers", that of July 14 (Briançon/Alpe d'Huez) bringing together 6.4 million (50.1% of viewers), a "record since 2003 for a stage", with a peak of 8.4 million .

Best audience since 2015 on France 3

France 2 is also pleased to have attracted 300,000 young people aged 15-34 on average every day, or 8% more than in 2021, for 35% of PDA (+5 points).

The channel thus climbed to the top of daytime audiences in July on the small screen, with 19.1% of PDA.

France 3, which broadcast the start of the stages from 1 p.m., won its best audience since 2015 (2.5 million viewers, 24.3% of PDA).


Also of note, the

Vélo Club

program attracted 2.1 million viewers (22.8% PDA) on average on France 2, with a peak of 3.5 million for the interview with Emmanuel Macron on July 21. .

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