The appearance of Pedro Sánchez to announce the call for elections became one of the great television events of the day. La 1 was the channel that led the audience distribution during the intervention of the President of the Government, with a 26.7% screen share.
Behind it were Antena 3, with 16.9%, and Telecinco, which reached 16.4%. The public channel thus clearly prevailed in a broadcast marked by the interest of viewers in the announcement made by Sánchez.
The follow-up was even greater when adding all the channels that offered the appearance. The intervention reached an 81.3% share and gathered an average of 1,931,000 viewers. In addition, more than two million people connected at some point with the broadcast.
The data reflects the enormous television expectation generated by the announcement of Pedro Sánchez. The electoral call turned the news programming into one of the main focuses of attention of the day and led the channels to dedicate themselves to special coverage of the intervention.