This is a passable score but without mention, in comparison with the other performances of the President of the Republic. Emmanuel Macron’s press conference was followed by a total of just over 8.7 million viewers Tuesday evening on all eight channels which broadcast it, according to figures from Médiamétrie on Wednesday.
This rare format for the Head of State brought together 4.1 million viewers on TF1 and 3.2 million on France 2. The press conference was also broadcast on the four news channels (BFMTV, CNews, LCI, France Info ), LCP and TV5 Monde.
An audience share of 41.6%
Broadcast from approximately 8:15 p.m. to 10:35 p.m., it achieved a total audience share of 41.6%. This means that four out of ten people in front of the television at that time were watching it, a performance made easier by the fact that it was very widely broadcast. For his wishes on December 31, the Head of State brought together around 10 million viewers.
Its audience is also lower than those made by Emmanuel Macron in another format, the exceptional speech: 13.3 million viewers across all channels followed the one broadcast in October 2023 after the Hamas attack in Israel, and 15 .1 million in mid-April after the promulgation of the highly contested pension reform.
A good score in “C to you”
In interview format by journalists on several channels, between 6 and 11 million viewers followed each of the President of the Republic’s different interventions in recent months. On December 20, nearly three million viewers listened to his two-hour interview on a single channel, France 5, in the program “C à vous”.
The previous format comparable to that of Tuesday evening, the press conference on a multitude of subjects, dates back to April 25, 2019. At the time, it was followed by more than 8.5 million viewers across all six channels which broadcast it (TF1, France 2 and the four news channels), but at a different time, from approximately 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.