The Champions League finals and the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival were spectator successes on Saturday night, with 6 million viewers and a record 3 million on the second, according to MediaMedia released on Sunday. Both events received much better viewership than last year. The closing ceremony in Cannes, broadcast this year on France 2 and no longer encrypted on Canal +, set its historical record.
The match at the top of European football, in which Real Madrid won over Liverpool (1: 0), was watched by 5.9 million spectators on TF1 (33.4% audience share) and 1 0.06 million on Canal + (6% audience share). ).
It aired from 9:37 pm to 11:30 pm, starting with a delay of more than 30 minutes due to scenes of chaos outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, due to the influx of tens of thousands of supporters and attempts to “disrupt”. . The combination on both channels gives a total of 6.06 million viewers, which is well over the 2.4 million recorded last year in the final between Chelsea and Manchester City, which was then broadcast on the TNT RMC channel.
The awards ceremony of the most prestigious film festival in the world was watched by 3.23 million viewers on the public channel France 2 (17.4% audience share) between 20:30 and 21:50 later than in previous years. That’s more than three times last year’s audience on Canal + (875,000), a new record.
Until then, it was 2.2 million viewers in 2013, the year of the coronation of “La vie d’Adèle” by Abdellatif Kechiche, and also in 2006, when “Le vent s’lève” by Ken Loache received the Palme d’Or. In 2019, the closing ceremony gathered 845,000 spectators after several years of decline.
In 2018, it attracted only 744,000. On May 17, the opening ceremony in Cannes reached its best viewership since 2011 with 1.77 million viewers. On Saturday, it was Swede Ruben Östlund who, five years after the award for “The Square”, won the second Golden Palm with “No Filter”, a pleasant satire of the super-rich and luxurious.