The news coverage of the railway tragedy led La 1 de TVE to lead the television morning. La Hora, presented by Silvia Intxaurrondo, registered a 22.4% audience share and an average of 490,000 viewers, according to data released by the network.
The program reached more than 2.1 million unique viewers during its broadcast. For its part, Canal 24 Horas registered a 2.9% audience share, on a day when RTVE maintained news attention on the railway accident.
The coverage continued during the subsequent hours with a special news report that reached a 23.6% audience share. The broadcast provided continuity to the monitoring of events and information about a tragedy that has marked current affairs.
The data corresponds to a day of programming conditioned by the need to report on what happened. RTVE maintained its news spaces to convey to the audience the evolution of events, with La Hora leading the morning and the subsequent special as part of the coverage.