SF also benefited from part 2 of the Federal Council elections
When Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf accepted her election to the Federal Council on Thursday morning, SF 1 achieved a record-high market share of 91 percent. So it was a day of superlatives—and not just in political terms.
It has probably been a long time since so many people turned on the television at eight o'clock in the morning as on Thursday: 528,000 people watched the one-and-a-half-hour live broadcast of the Federal Council elections on SF 1 on Thursday morning. The audience market share was 88 percent. This is the highest figure ever recorded since the start of the market share survey, as SF announced. During the election of Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, the figure was even higher: shortly after 8.00 a.m., 749,000 people tuned in to SF 1 to find out about the new Federal Councillor's decision. This corresponded to a market share of 91.0 percent. The SF website, where the broadcasts were shown live, registered a total of 301,122 visits. Three Federal Council press conferences also met with interest. 114,000 viewers (45.9%) were present when the new Federal Councillor Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf faced the media; 180,000 viewers (46.4%) watched Samuel Schmid's press conference and 178,000 viewers (42.2%) watched that of former Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher.
