Didier Deschamps facing Nathalie Iannetta and Marie Portolano on May 18, 2021 – Capture TF1
Full box for Didier Deschamps. The coach of the France team presented the list of players who will play in Euro 2021 on Tuesday evening and the public was there. More than ten million viewers followed this announcement on TF1 and M6, according to data from Médiamétrie released on Wednesday.
The sequence animated live by Nathalie Iannetta and Marie Portolano was watched by 7.6 million viewers on average on TF1, with a peak of 7.8 million being broadcast. On M6, around three million people watched the composition sequence with a peak of 3.2 million.
The two channels, which will broadcast Euro 2021 unencrypted (alongside beIN which broadcasts the competition in encrypted), shared the announcement of this list, at 8:20 p.m., as well as Didier Deschamps’ explanations on its composition and on the surprise return of striker Karim Benzema to the Blues, after a five-year eclipse.
TF1 largely leader with the interview of MBappé
More generally, the 20 hours of TF1 presented by Gilles Bouleau, during which this sequence was broadcast, followed by an exclusive interview with Kylian MBappé, garnered seven million viewers and an audience share (PDA) of 27.8%, rising significantly at the head of the evening’s hearings.
For its part the 19.45 of Xavier de Moulins, extended because of this news, brought together 3.2 million people on average and posted a PDA of 13.2%.