Audiences and Results TV

TV Audiences: Key ratings, audience shares and trends to help you understand how viewers engage with television.

Other periods or results
Audience share (%) Monthly coverage
July-2026
Total TV 100,0 62 236 000
Agrégats National Channels(1) 91,3 61 890 000
Other TV : special-interest local and foreign channels 8,7 59 223 000
Chaînes TF1 16,3 58 465 000
FRANCE 2 17,0 57 917 000
FRANCE 3 9,1 50 683 000
FRANCE 4 1,3 36 955 000
FRANCE 5 3,2 49 916 000
M6 13,3 59 563 000
ARTE 3,0 41 579 000
W9 1,9 41 458 000
TMC 2,3 45 772 000
TFX 1,5 36 837 000
GULLI 1,2 32 976 000
BFM TV 3,2 48 764 000
CNEWS 2,4 41 197 000
LCI 2,7 42 426 000
FRANCEINFO: 1,1 36 638 000
CSTAR 0,9 30 623 000
T18 1,0 27 354 000
NOVO19 0,9 26 288 000
TF1 SERIES FILMS 1,4 26 914 000
L’EQUIPE 1,1 32 890 000
6TER 1,3 28 965 000
RMC STORY 1,2 38 962 000
RMC DÉCOUVERTE 1,6 30 358 000
RMC LIFE 1,2 25 152 000
CANAL+(2) 0,8 24 593 000

(1) National channels: traditional channels and DTT channels.
(2) Results are calculated over the entire broadcast broadcast A mode of transmission whereby a transmitter sends the same audio and video stream to many receivers within a coverage area. In the context of computer networks, broadcast mode is contrasted with “multicast” and “unicast” modes, which respectively refer to the transmission of a stream to a given group of recipient devices and to a single recipient device. OR : Putting a show or a programme on television or radio. This term refers to a programme that is broadcast live as opposed to on-demand. Find out more period, whether the broadcast is unencrypted or scrambled scrambled A television channel or programme that is broadcast in an encoded format, thus requiring decryption using a decoder in order to be watched. Find out more . Viewership for the channels CANAL+ CINÉMA(S), CANAL+ SPORT, CANAL+ DOCS, CANAL+ GRAND ECRAN, CANAL+ FOOT, CANAL+ KIDS, CANAL+ SPORT 360, and CANAL+ BOX OFFICE BOX OFFICE Classification of films according to the number of cinema admissions. Find out more is included in the “Other TV” Aggregate Aggregate Grouping together of basic entities with the intention of forming larger units. In radio, two types of aggregates have existed since 1991: - Aggregates by format: General Interest Programmes, Private General Interest Programmes, Musical Programmes, Speciality Programmes, Local Programmes; - Aggregates by status: Public Service Radio Stations, Radio France, Private Commercial Radio Stations, Private Association Radio Stations. Find out more .

Extrapolated monthly coverage Monthly coverage (%)
Individuals 4 years + 62 236 000 97,9
Individuals 15 years + 55 466 000 99,9
Individuals 4-14 years 67,620,00 83,80
Individuals 15-34 years 15 352 000 100,0
Individuals 25-49 years 20 079 000 99,9
Individuals 25-59 years 28 501 000 99,9
The woman in charge of household purchases – 50 years 10 729 000 100,0
Individuals 50 years + 27 655 000 99,9
SPG + Individuals 16 961 000 99,9

 

Definitions

Audience Audience The set of listeners, viewers, or TV viewers in which each individual is equally weighted, regardless of their listening/viewing duration or frequency of contact. Find out more in Viewing days : total audiences of programmes viewed live, time-shifted and on replay on a given day, regardless of the original live broadcast broadcast A mode of transmission whereby a transmitter sends the same audio and video stream to many receivers within a coverage area. In the context of computer networks, broadcast mode is contrasted with “multicast” and “unicast” modes, which respectively refer to the transmission of a stream to a given group of recipient devices and to a single recipient device. OR : Putting a show or a programme on television or radio. This term refers to a programme that is broadcast live as opposed to on-demand. Find out more date of the programmes caught up with.

Audience share Audience share The audience share, or market share of an event (programme, advertising slot, channel, station, etc.) is the ratio of the average audience for that event and the average audience for the media over the same time slot. This gives an indicator of the relative performance of a channel or station relative to their competitors. Find out more in percentage : share that represents the viewing time for a channel channel A subset of the brand URLs that overlap with a single theme (e.g., news, e-mail, etc.); the channel audience contributes to the overall audience of the brand, which itself contributes to the overall audience of the Parent. Find out more over the total viewing time for television media.

Monthly coverage coverage The audience accumulation over a long period (week, month, etc.) This is the number or percentage of people having had at least one contact, of any duration, with the media studied during the time period. It is calculated based on continuous panels. Find out more : number or percentage of individuals who had at least one contact contact In media planning, a contact refers to an individual's exposure to an advertisement. In radio parlance, this is Opportunity to Hear (OTH) and for TV, Internet, press, cinema and poster advertisements, it is called Opportunity to See (OTS). Find out more of 10 consecutive seconds with the TV media or the TV channel during the Médiamat Médiamat Registered name, the Médiamat is the benchmark in television audience measurement in France. Carried out by Médiamétrie, it provides daily audience figures for programmes watched anywhere, on any screen, live, timeshifted, on replay or preview, by all French people aged 4 and over, i.e. 62.4 million individuals. The measurement is based on 2 representative panels : - A first panel of around 12,000 individuals in 5,500 households, comprising : • 5,000 households equipped with home TV sets, each connected to a fixed audimeter, the source of home TV audience measurement • 500 households without home TV sets - A second panel of around 5,000 individuals carrying a personal portable meter to measure TV audiences out of home (all screens) and on Internet screens at home. These audiences are then attributed to the individuals in the first panel by statistical fusion. The Médiamat allows Médiamétrie to monitor audience behaviour on a daily basis, while offering the possibility of both editorial and advertising analysis. Find out more month (if the month has 5 weeks, average average The average is one of the most important statistical indicators for a set of numbers. By default, it is the arithmetic mean, calculated by adding the values in the set and then dividing that sum by the number of values. Find out more of the first 4 weeks and last 4 weeks).

 

Methodology

The Médiamat Médiamat Registered name, the Médiamat is the benchmark in television audience measurement in France. Carried out by Médiamétrie, it provides daily audience figures for programmes watched anywhere, on any screen, live, timeshifted, on replay or preview, by all French people aged 4 and over, i.e. 62.4 million individuals. The measurement is based on 2 representative panels : - A first panel of around 12,000 individuals in 5,500 households, comprising : • 5,000 households equipped with home TV sets, each connected to a fixed audimeter, the source of home TV audience measurement • 500 households without home TV sets - A second panel of around 5,000 individuals carrying a personal portable meter to measure TV audiences out of home (all screens) and on Internet screens at home. These audiences are then attributed to the individuals in the first panel by statistical fusion. The Médiamat allows Médiamétrie to monitor audience behaviour on a daily basis, while offering the possibility of both editorial and advertising analysis. Find out more Mensuel is part of Médiamétrie’s MediaMat offering.

The Médiamat, the benchmark automated Audience Measurement Audience Measurement Quantitative study of the frequency of use of media. Find out more system for television audiences in France, provides daily data data Digital data Find out more on the viewership of programs watched anywhere, on any screen, and viewed live, on-demand, Catch-up Catch-up Catch-up technology allows TV viewers to watch or rewatch a television programme after it has been broadcast live. Find out more , or Preview Preview A way to view a television programme via a catch-up platform before it is broadcast on live TV. Find out more by all French residents aged 4 and older, totaling 63.1 million individuals.

The measurement is based on 2 panels representative representative A sample is said to be representative when it has been generated via a representative draw, meaning that each individual in the population had a non-zero probability of being selected. Representativeness relates to the sample and not to a unit of the population. It is not synonymous with a proportional sample or a "reduced model" of the population studied. In survey theory, it has been demonstrated that an optimal sampling strategy consists of organising the sample according to the variables that are most correlated to the subject of the study. Find out more of the Population Population The universe of a survey composed of basic statistical units. These units may be physical persons, households, companies, municipalities, etc. The population serves as a sampling frame for selecting a sample, and as a basis for calculation of the extrapolations from the sample. Find out more :