Nearly 3 million Quebecers watched François Legault’s press conference on Thursday evening.
The first half hour of the press briefing, during which the Premier of Quebec presented a new series of measures aimed at limiting the spread of the Omicron variant, rallied an average of 2,997,000 viewers. It was broadcast live simultaneously on TVA, LCN, ICI Télé, ICI RDI and Noovo.
More specifically, 1,358,000 viewers followed it on TVA, 627,000 on LCN, 509,000 on ICI Télé, 479,000 on ICI RDI and 24,000 on Noovo, according to preliminary data from Numéris.
This is not a record for these COVID press briefings. On January 6, 3,524,000 Quebecers watched the speech of the CAQ leader, during which he had revealed details surrounding the curfew to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
At the start of the pandemic, at the turn of March and April 2020, the speeches of François Legault and Horacio Arruda attracted 2,500,000 viewers every day at 1 p.m.