King's Christmas speech in Spain receives lowest viewer ratings in 18 years

THE King’s Christmas speech in Spain received its lowest rating for 18 years.

Some 5.82 million Spaniards watched King Felipe VI’s broadcast on Christmas eve, 844,000 fewer than last year.

The slump in ratings is a significant drop from 2000, when predecessor King Juan Carlos managed to pull in a record 9.1 million viewers, helping the slot to grab an 87.2% audience share.

The decline of TV in favour of mobile, tablet and laptop streaming could be behind the fall, as well as the fact that the monarchy appearing on screen is now less of a rarity.

Despite the ratings drop, it was still the most-watched programme in Spain on December 24th, with a 57.6% audience share.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
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He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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