The year 2024 will have been rich in sport and sporting emotions. The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Euro football tournament, so many events which have marked the international scene and France in particular. Even in their television follow-up.
In the Top 100 TV audiences revealed these days by Médiamétrie, there are 37 sporting events – the most represented register, ahead of French fiction (33). With above all, and this is the most spectacular, a Top 10 dedicated entirely to sport.
Léon Marchand hits the screen
On July 26, 24.42 million viewers – or 83.1% of the French public – followed the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Neither more nor less than a historic record. Fifteen days later, on August 11, 17.9 million French people will be there for the closing ceremony of these same Games.
Five matches of the Blues at Euro 2024 appear in this Top 10 audiences, including the half lost against Spain on July 9 – the third program most followed by French viewers this year. Special mention to Léon Marchand who, on July 31, was able to bring together nearly 10 million French enthusiasts in the evening by achieving an unprecedented Olympic double in the 200m butterfly and 200m breaststroke.
The 10 biggest TV audiences of 2024:
1. Opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Friday July 26 on France 2: 24.4 million viewers – or 83.3% of the public.
2. Closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, Sunday August 11 on France 2: 17.9 million – 76.7%.
3. Spain-France – Euro semi-final, Tuesday July 9 on TF1: 16.1 million – 60.2%.
4. Portugal-France – quarter-final of the Euro, Friday July 5 on M6: 12.7 million – 57.2%.
5. Austria-France – 1st phase of Euro 2024, Monday June 17 on TF1: 11.3 million – 46.9%.
6. France-Belgium – round of 16 of the Euro, Monday July 1 on TF1: 11 million – 56.2%.
7. Opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games, Wednesday August 28 on France 2: 10.5 million – 52.4%.
8. Review evening of the 2024 Olympics, Sunday August 11 on France 2: 10.2 million – 52.3%.
9. Netherlands-France, 1st phase of the Euro, Friday June 21 on M6: 10.2 million – 46.6%.
10. Swimming evening of the 2024 Olympic Games, Wednesday July 31 on France 2: 9.7 million – 46.3%
