Record-breaking viewership for Sergio Mattarella's New Year's Eve address

Sergio Mattarella's New Year's Eve message saw a boom in viewership. There were 10,647,140 viewers who watched the President of the Republic's New Year's Eve speech on TV yesterday evening, in line with last year, when there were 10,643,452. However, the share fell, from 67.25 percent to 65.13. The record for viewership for a New Year's Eve message from Mattarella and generally a Head of State was recorded in 2020, when with 15,272,170 viewers it was the most watched since 1986, the year in which Auditel's surveys began. This figure is higher than the 15,015,000 registered by Oscar Luigi Scalfaro in 1993; the 14,825,000 viewers of Francesco Cossiga in 1991; and the 14,364,000 again of Scalfaro in 1992. Mattarella's New Year's Eve speech: 'Peace is urgent realism. Love is not possession and dominion, but respect'. Full text. Mattarella, the New Year's Eve speech makes a boom in ratings. Returning to comparisons with previous years, in 2015, for Mattarella's first message, the viewers were 10,075,487, with a share of 56 percent; in 2016 10,060,189 (58.63); in 2017 9,700,277 (55.58); in 2018 10,525,049 (62.13), in 2019 10,121,552 (59.51). In 2020 as mentioned the record of 15,272,170 (64.95), while in 2021 the viewers were 13,541,758, with a share of 65.94. As for last night's message, 5,212,890 viewers watched the message on Raiuno; 470,457 on Raidue; 772,049 on Raitre; 64,528 on Rainews 24, for a total of 6,519,924 on public TV channels. As for private broadcasters, 2,942,770 viewers on Canale 5; 226,388 on Retequattro; 54,008 on Tgcom 24; 746,754 on La7; 49,346 on Tv2000; 80,032 on Sky Tg 24 and 27,918 always on Sky Tg24 but digital, for a total of 4,127,216.