One last audience hit. Some 7.7 million viewers on average watched the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on Sunday evening on France 2, representing an audience share of 37.7%, according to figures from Médiamétrie published on Monday. The opening ceremony on August 28 was watched by 10.2 million people, with a higher audience share: 52.3%. Previously, the opening ceremony and closing ceremony of the Olympic Games had respectively attracted 23.2 and 17.1 million live viewers.
>> Relive the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games
The closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games was broadcast live from the Stade de France from around 8:30 p.m. to 11:05 p.m. It featured a large amount of electronic music, with 24 DJs including big names such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Etienne de Crécy and Martin Solveig.
The Paris 2024 sequence, with the Olympic Games (from July 26 to August 11) and then, to a lesser extent, the Paralympic Games (from August 28 to Sunday), brought strong audiences to France Télévisions, their broadcaster. The public group’s main channel, France 2, was the number one in France in August, ahead of TF1, with a 23.3% audience share for the entire month, according to figures from Médiamétrie published on September 2. The Paralympic Games benefited from unprecedented exposure on France Télévisions, with 300 hours of live broadcasts, compared to 100 for the previous edition, in Tokyo in 2021, and less than 10 hours for London in 2012.
- RMC Sport
