Yesterday, more than three million people watched the debate about the failed formation reconnaissance for at least five minutes on NPO television. On NPO 1, an average of 773,000 people watched yesterday afternoon and after that there were an average of 695,000 viewers on NPO 2. This is evident from figures from the KijkOnderzoek Foundation.
At the peak (6:50 pm), 964,000 people watched and on average someone watched for 19 minutes. 53 percent of the viewers were male, says viewing rating analyst Robin Muurling. “And it was a fairly gray audience: 78 percent of the viewers were over 50 and 53 percent were over 65.”
Last night the broadcasts on NPO 2 stopped and people could switch to the theme channel NPO Politics. Later NPO 1 picked up the debates again and then most viewers were counted just before 1 a.m.: 392,000.
The debate could also be followed on RTL Z; between 20.30 and 02.00 an average of 417,000 people watched there. As a result, the broadcaster achieved a night market share of 7.4 percent, which is the highest score ever for the commercial TV channel.
We have summarized the highlights of the debate for you in this video:
At the peak time, 7200 people watched the livestreams on the NOS Facebook page. That is much more than the 600 to 1000 viewers with a ‘normal’ stream. The largest group of viewers comes from South Holland and it was mainly women between 25 and 34 years old. The stream on the YouTube channel of the NOS was viewed almost 280,000 times at its peak.
It is not yet clear how many people have watched the parliamentary debates online.
Most TV viewers were ahead of yesterday The Passion from KRO-NCRV. The eleventh edition of the TV show about the suffering of Jesus watched nearly 2.6 million people. That was more than 100,000 fewer than last year. The Passion was broadcast this year from Roermond.