This two-hour interview, during which the President of the Republic notably presented his five-year report to journalists Audrey Crespo-Mara and Darius Rochebin achieved an audience share of 18.3% on the first channel .
At the highest point, viewers were up to 4.6 million watching the interview, the TF1 group mentioned in a tweet.
The program, titled "Emmanuel Macron, where is France going?", Was followed by 384,000 viewers on LCI, the group's 24-hour news channel, recording an audience share of 1.8%.
Also broadcast on the LCI.fr and MYTF1 platforms, the interview-debate "reached more than 1 million people and more than 500,000 views," said TF1 in a press release.
On Twitter, the program generated 140,472 messages over the last 24 hours, nine tweets per second at the highest peak of activity, ie "twice as many messages as the official announcement of Eric Zemmour's candidacy on November 30" on TF1, Visibrain, a company specializing in digital watch, told AFP.
This program, four months before the presidential election, sparked heated debates between opponents and supporters of the Head of State on respect for the principle of equity of speaking time between candidates, Emmanuel Macron not having declared himself officially a candidate.
This audience score is much lower than that of previous speeches by the Head of State related to the management of the health crisis.
His last intervention on November 10 was followed by 8.1 million viewers only on TF1.
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