The joy was infectious, this November 14, on the air ofEurope 1 where the morning worker Dimitri Pavlenko and the press review man, Olivier de Lagarde, triumphed on the air. Rightly so. In one year, since its takeover by the Canal+/Bolloré group teams, the station of Sonia Mabrouk, Pascal Praud, Vincent Hervouet, Alexis Brézet, Louis de Raguenel and many others like Gabrielle Cluzel is offered, over one year , the most spectacular audience jump in the general radio landscape, according to Médiamétrie. Over the period September-October 2024, the station attracted precisely 2.486 million pairs of ears. That’s 347,000 more faithful in one year. Enough to comfort the team which gets up early to give life to a liberal line, with the participation of numerous figures of CNews or Figaro. Apparently, the formula is good: the dynamic accelerates from poll to poll. Contacted, the general manager ofEurope 1 Donat Vidal-Revel could not be reached.
Among the favorites of listenersEurope 1the host of the morning show Dimitri Pavlenko, between 7 and 9 a.m., accumulates 1.2 million listeners: that's 88,000 more in one year, according to Europe 1. Sonia Mabrouk's political interview, between 8:15 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., remains a strong point trending upwards. Real pillar of the antenna CNews andEurope 1Pascal Praud gains nearly 200,000 listeners in the morning, with Professional Time from 9 to 9:30 a.m. – a slot co-broadcast by CNews – and 117,000 in the evening, with its daily show Pascal Praud and you. Returning to the air every afternoon, Cyril Hanouna almost triples the scores in his box (4 p.m.-6 p.m.) with his new appointment We walk on our headsa dialogue with listeners. As revenge against Arcom, which removed the frequency from “its” channel C8 : the Council of State must confirm or not, soon, this decision.
Public radio remains dominant
The result ofEurope 1 is not going to delight the left-wing press, which loves to bombard Bolloré so much. But she has reason to console herself: France Inter does not weaken, quite the contrary. Large leader on all radio stations in France, Inter gains 265,000 listeners over one year. France Info also holds itself at a high level and France Culture progresses. Public radio stations gain points at the expense of RTL and of RMCboth in decline.
Pour Europe 1the road to the top is still long. The station has a 4.2% audience share when France Inter displays, today, 15.1%. However, there are those on the left and the extreme left who consider that the Bolloré group threatens the pluralism of opinions… Let us remember that, faced with the 2.4 million listeners ofEurope 1, France Inter speaks in the ears of nearly… 7.2 million French people ready to endure politically correct information, or three times more! The extent of the difference between these two audiences may be surprising. It can be explained by the technical means (625 transmitters in all corners of France to Interin 2015, compared to 318 for Europe 1), by human resources (nearly 4,000 employees for all Radio France antennas, from 100 to 300 to Europe 1) and by financial means, disproportionate and from public funds to Inter, Culture or Info. Which gives particular relief to the great anti-Bolloré fear staged to the point of absurdity by the French left. A left that dreams of a univocal media landscape. Difficult to abandon one's little intellectual and media comforts.
Print, save this article as PDF
