The Queen’s Coronavirus Address Watched By 24M In The UK
Queen Elizabeth II’s uncommon deal with to the British public and the Commonwealth grew to become one of many UK’s most-watched TV occasions of the previous decade after 24M tuned in to observe Her Majesty.
In a nod to households and associates being stored aside by coronavirus, the Queen’s speech included the emotive line that “we’ll meet once more,” evoking reminiscences of Dame Vera Lynn’s World Conflict II tune We’ll Meet Once more. She additionally referred to as for “self-discipline” and “good-humoured resolve” throughout the pandemic.
The five-minute deal with was seen by 24M throughout BBC One, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky One, BBC Information and Sky Information at 8PM on Sunday night, in response to BARB scores equipped by overnights.television.
The vast majority of this viewers (14M to be exact) watched on BBC One, and it doesn’t embrace these watching on-line or different nations, together with the U.S. the place the Queen’s message was proven by most main information networks and BBC America.
The 24M viewers means it sits simply behind the TV crowds that watched the Opening and Closing Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics (24.2M and 24.5M respectively). It was not sufficient, nonetheless, to match Boris Johnson’s deal with to the nation two weeks in the past, when 28M watched the prime minister put the nation into lockdown.
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