France: nine of the best TV audiences of 2016 were for Euro 2016 on free-TV channels TF1 and M6

Games of Euro 2016 allowed the private, free-TV channels M6 and TF1 to record, in France, nine of the 10 best audiences of 2016 and 15 of the 18 best audience shares in 2016.

The top TV audience of the year for 2016 was for M6 which, for the final of Euro 2016, Portugal - France (1-0, after extra time), was watched 20,827,000 viewers on average, on Sunday 10/07/2016 (kick-off at 21:00 CET). M6 achieved its record audience in its history on this occasion.

Football represented 23 of the 100 best TV audiences of 2016 in France. Sport had only 9 spots in the top 100 in 2015, but 22 in the year of the World Cup in 2014. 13 programmes exceeded 10 million viewers in 2016, against four in 2015, including two matches of the Rugby World Cup. In 2016, 11 of the 13 programmes to surpass the ten million viewers were games of Euro 2016.