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TV Audience in France from 10th to 16th August 2026

From 10th to 16th August 2026 - Week 33

Day of viewing

Average day Monday-Sunday - from 3am to 3am - 4 years and older

 

Weekly Coverage
Total TV 57 854 000
Audience share (%)
Aggregates National Channels(1) 91,3
Other TV : special-interest local and foreign channels 8,7
Channels TF1 17,9
FRANCE 2 15,6
FRANCE 3 11,5
FRANCE 5 3,3
M6 7,3
ARTE 3,4
W9 2,1
TMC 2,8
TFX 1,7
GULLI 1,4
CSTAR 0,9
TF1 SERIES FILMS 1,6
6TER 1,6
RMC STORY 1,4
RMC DÉCOUVERTE 2,0
RMC LIFE 1,5
CANAL+(2) 1,2

 

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, private time-shifted, preview preview A way to view a television programme via a catch-up platform before it is broadcast on live TV. Find out more 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. 

Weekly 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 of individuals who had at least one contact with the television medium during the week. regardless of the duration of this contact. 

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.

 

Methodology

The Weekly 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 is part of Médiamétrie’s MediaMat offering.
 

Médiamat, the benchmark in television audience measurement audience measurement Quantitative study of the frequency of use of media. Find out more in France, provides daily 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 figures for programmes watched anywhere, on any screen, live, timeshifted, on replay 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 people aged 4 and over, i.e. 63.6 million individuals.

The measurement is based on 2 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 panels: