In November 2011, the EITB Group matched its best ever audience figures taking 11.8% of the overall share. This marks its best results since April and May when the Group attracted an equal share of the viewing public.

Figures for the Basque-language TV station ETB-1 were 2.2%, Spanish-language ETB-2 obtained 8.6%, dual-language ETB-3 0.7% and ETB’s Satellite channel claimed 0.3% of the viewing public.

The overall figures put ETB as the autonomous station with the third highest number of viewers in the State, surpassed only by Catalonia and Galicia and matched by Andalusia.

The latest figures presented to the Board of Directors attributes the improved results principally to combined audience figures for ETB-2’s afternoon-evening slot. Figures for the daily news programmes, which now have a longer format, have also improved climbing to an annual average of 13.9%.

Leaders on election night

Also standing out amongst the latest audience data were viewing figures for the night of the Spanish general election on November 20th when ETB-2 were absolute leaders taking the lion’s share of 20.8% of the viewing audience, 922,000 spectators overall, eight points more than its main competitor TVE (Spain’s National Television Station). ETB-1 obtained 3.4% of the viewing public, the equivalent of 250,000 spectators.