Overview
- Médiamétrie’s full-year data show CNews with a 3.4% audience share versus 2.8% for BFMTV.
- It is the first time CNews finishes a full year as the sole leader among France’s rolling news channels.
- BFMTV still posted higher reach, with 45 million viewers in December versus 39 million for CNews, but audiences watched CNews for longer.
- LCI logged a 2.0% share and franceinfo 0.9%, and CNews ranked sixth among all national channels, just behind France 5, with TF1 leading at 18.7%.
- Canal+ executives praised CNews’s editorial positioning as critics renewed scrutiny, including France Télévisions chief Delphine Ernotte previously labeling it a far-right channel.