The numbers and percentages of television viewership in France for the FIFA World Cup finals revealed the failure of all media campaigns calling for a boycott of the global demonstration that is being held for the first time on Arab lands, specifically in Qatar, after the match that brought together France and Australia (4-1) recorded a record viewership. in the country.
And a report by the French “RMC” website, according to the management of the French “TF1” channel, stated that more than 12.5 million viewers watched their country’s opening match in the World Cup against Australia, which is a record in terms of viewership for all programs. It has been done for more than a year.
According to the same source, France's match viewership numbers accounted for 48.1% of the total TV viewership in the evening of the match, which is the largest percentage in 4 years.
In the same context, the opening ceremony of the World Cup, which was hosted by Al-Bayt Stadium in the Qatari capital, Doha, achieved a record in terms of viewership in France, exceeding the number of views achieved by the opening ceremony of the last edition of the World Cup that was held in Russia.
According to the French newspaper L'Équipe, quoting the Mediametry group, which specializes in measuring viewership rates for French channels, the number of people who watched the opening ceremony in France on the French TF1 channel more than doubled compared to the number that watched the ceremony that It was held in the last edition, 4 years ago, in Russia.
The same source revealed that the number of French people who stared in front of television screens in order to watch the ceremony as well as the opening match between Qatar and Ecuador exceeded 5.13 million viewers, which represents 31% of the total views.
The newspaper also confirmed that the opening ceremony alone, without the match, was watched by nearly 4.18 million French, representing 29.4%, and it nearly doubled the number achieved 4 years ago, as the opening ceremony of the 2018 World Cup was watched by two million and 18 thousand viewers.
These numbers come to confirm the failure of the boycott campaigns that were marketed during the weeks leading up to the start of the 2022 World Cup, and enhance the chances of achieving greater numbers with the progress of the tournament and the intensification of competition between the candidates for the title, including the French national team, which seeks to preserve its title that it won in 2018.