Based on data published this Thursday, January 9, 2025 by Médiamétrie, Puremédias deciphers slice by slice the results obtained by PAF radio stations over the last two months. Dominated by RTL and its “Big Heads” in the afternoon, France Inter regains leadership at 6 p.m. His “18/20”, presented by Fabienne Sintès, informed 841.000 listeners on average in November-December 2024. The box emerges strengthened from this wave with a gain of 13,000 listeners over one year. At 7:20 p.m., “The telephone is ringing” rang out at 781.000 listeners compared to 733,000 last year at the same time. In good momentum, this crossroads attracts 48,000 additional listeners over one year.
Embellished for RTL’s “18/20” with Yves Calvi
Very far behind, RTL’s “18/20” attracted the attention of 390.000 listeners, or 32,000 more than in November-December 2023. In detail, “RTL evening”, now presented by Yves Calvi, the station’s former morning worker, and Agnès Bonfillon, informed 464.000 listeners (+55,000). There were 409,000 of them listening to the same program carried by Julien Sellier and Marion Calais between 6 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. a year earlier. Marc-Antoine Le Bret and his column “Le Bret King News”, offered every evening at 6:53 p.m., made an average of 385,000 listeners laugh: RTL’s 6:45 p.m.-7 p.m. thus increased by 53,000 listeners. Between 7:15 p.m. and 8 p.m., finally, “We remake the world”, stable over a year, interested 267,000 listeners (- 5,000).
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Bronze medalist of the generalists, “Rothen s’enflamme”, led by Jérôme Rothen between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., brought together, on average 255.000 listeners in November-December 2024 and shows a loss of 57,000 listeners. All quarter-hours of the show, starting with 6:30 p.m.-6:45 p.m. (-86,000 listeners over one year), are in the red.
On Europe 1, the 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. slot, on which Laurence Ferrari (“Punchline”) is aligned in the first hour and Pierre de Vilno (“Europe 1 evening”) in the second hour, is listened to by 194.000 listeners on average (+33,000 over one year). In detail, the former presenter of TF1’s “20 Heures” (2008-2012) narrates the news of the day 254.000 listeners (+ 83,000) when Peter of Vilno canned 135.000 (- 16,000) between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. The second hour of ‘Europe 1 evening’ between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. is stable over one year (- 1,000).
Faustine Bollaert is on par with Flavie Flament, RMC in the tough
As for the programs broadcast after 8 p.m., on France Inter, “La 20eheure”, a program with Éva Bester, was listened to by 319.000 listeners (11,000 more than “Grand canal” at the same time last year). On RTL, “Héros”, a new show presented by Faustine Bollaert, found favor in the eyes of 127.000 listeners between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. and is on par with “Jour J”, hosted by Flavie Flament last season (- 7,000 listeners exactly).
On RMC, Nicolas Jamain, at the helm of “Génération After Foot” from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., passionately 126.000 listeners in November and December 2024. Stable, the program lost 5,000 listeners over one year. The situation is much more complicated at the end of the evening. From 10 p.m. to midnight, “L’After Foot” with Daniel Riolo and Gilbert Brisbois has only been able to count on 130,000 football fans on average over the last two months (-27,000 listeners over one year). Here too, RMC recorded eight quarters of an hour out of eight in the red. These disappointing results in radio can be offset by the fact that “L’After Foot” is the most downloaded podcast in France for the second year in a row with 15.2 million monthly downloads.
Finally, since the start of the school year, Europe 1 has been offering “France moves” with Elisabeth Assayag between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. This show, which succeeds in this box to “Hey Joe!” presented by Joe Hume, attracted 25.000 listeners (- 8,000 listeners).
Source: EAR (Radio Audience Study) Médiamétrie November-December 2024. Audiences in average quarter of an hour. Monday to Friday. The comparisons expressed are over one year (November-December 2024 vs. November-December 2023) and over one wave (November-December 2024 vs. September-October 2024).
