2024-08-03 16:13:00
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was watched in replay by 1.2 million people, which, added to the live broadcast, brings its total audience to a new level. “historical” of 24.4 million viewers on average, France Télévisions announced on Saturday. “This ceremony will forever mark the history of television”Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, the number 2 of the public group, rejoiced to AFP. On the evening of July 26, the live broadcast was followed on France 2 by an average of 23.2 million viewers over the entire four hours of the ceremony, according to figures from Médiamétrie.
The live audience record on French television is held by the World Cup final won by Argentina against France in December 2022, which attracted 24.08 million viewers on TF1. By adding the replay, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is therefore the most watched program on French television, the replay being marginal for a sporting event like the World Cup final, according to France Télévisions.
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According to Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, the peak audience of the ceremony was reached by the appearance of the singer Aya Nakamura (31.4 million viewers), followed by the sequence on the Olympic cauldron (29.5 million) and “L’hymne à l’amour” sung by Céline Dion (29 million). The audience of the ceremony “is proof that, from the very first hours, popular success among the French was there”said Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez.
Throughout the first week of competition, audiences for the public group were at their highest, with “more than 50% average audience share” for all of its channels. “Since the start of the Games, 90% of French people [sont allés] “On the France Télévisions channels, to witness a moment of the Games is something never seen before.”said Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, according to whom these hearings are “beyond all expectations”According to him, the gold medals won on Friday by swimmer Léon Marchand and judoka Teddy Riner reached peaks of 14.5 million and 9 million viewers respectively. “Here, the numbers are record, but they are found everywhere in the world”Yiannis Exarchos, director of OBS, the IOC subsidiary responsible for filming the Olympic Games for the channels that broadcast them, assured AFP on Thursday.
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