The return of the football match known as Le Classique has delivered the best audience for Canal+ and its coverage since October 2019.
An average of 1.710 million watched Olympique de Marseille go down to their seventh straight defeat, this time at the hands of old rival Paris Saint-Germain.
The audience peaked at the very start of the match when nearly 2.3 million viewers were tuned in across all Canal devices and channels.
Canal Football Club also recorded a record audience with 952,000 viewers.
The weekend was the first in Canal’s hastily drawn up contract following the debacle over the rights to Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 in the wake of the collapse of the agreement with Mediapro.