Paris (AFP)
More than 16.3 million viewers on average followed Monday night the defeat of the France team against Switzerland in the round of 16 of Euro football, a record since 2018, according to data from Médiamétrie on Tuesday.
This crazy match, concluded with a shootout (3-3 ap, 5-4 tab) and the elimination of the Blues in Bucharest, allowed TF1 to record an audience share (PDA) of 63, 3%, according to Médiamétrie.
"Huge success for the France-Switzerland match", tweeted TF1, boasting a "record audience for 3 years".
The match in fact gathered more viewers than the Blues meeting against Portugal last Wednesday (2-2), followed on the same channel by nearly 15.6 million fans for 58% of PDA.
TF1 also recorded "a peak audience of 18.1 million" viewers shortly before 11:00 pm and the start of the extension between the two teams.
On June 19, the second match of the French team in the Euro, against Hungary (1-1), had gathered nearly 12.3 million viewers on average in front of TF1, for a PDA of 70%.
Broadcast on M6, the inaugural victory of the Blues against Germany (1-0) had gathered 15.1 million viewers on June 15, for 57.5% of PDA.
The record TV audience on a single channel was achieved by the last France-Croatia World Cup final in July 2018, with 20.7 million viewers, including 19.3 million only on TF1 and the rest recorded on beIN Sports.
In cumulative audience, the absolute TV audience record was recorded in April 2020 during Emmanuel Macron's speech during the first confinement.
The intervention of the Head of State was followed in total by 36.7 million viewers (including 14.6 million on TF1; 11.1 on France 2; 4.4 for M6 and 2 for France 3).
© 2021 AFP