Since the start of the season, the Canal Football Club audiences have not been glorious, even if Canal+ has recruited Bertrand Latour and Margot Dumont to restart the machine. Pierre Ménès is not surprised.
Aware that the CFC was starting to hum last season, the encrypted channel decided during the summer to recruit two additional journalists, and in particular one, Bertrand Latour, supposed to be the sniper on duty on the set of the Sunday meeting. But the mayonnaise is having difficulty taking hold, and with the exception of Sunday evening when the interview with Kylian Mbappé was broadcast, the Canal Football Club audiences are around 320,000 viewers, and inevitably, we are further and further away huge scores that the show achieved in its heyday.
For the record, in December 2009, the CFC reached a record with 2 million viewers. Asked about the weight of his absence in this drop in audiences, Pierre Ménès insisted on remaining modest, even if he thinks that indeed, his departure from Canal+ cost Canal Football Club viewers.
Audience divided by three for the CFC, Pierre Ménès has an explanation
« If we only look at the audiences, between my time and today's audience, the Canal Football Club audience has been divided by three. This is the analysis of figures stricto sensu. Afterwards, we must not forget that in my time, there were all the Ligue 1 summaries and a program which was entirely devoted, or almost, to Ligue 1 and a little to the Premier League when Canal+ obtained the rights. Now, there is no longer a single image of Ligue 1 at CFC, and I think it is an editorial mistake to give so much space to English football in prime time access on Sunday evenings, people don't care. screw up a bit.
But I know that there is a political will not to give too much space to Ligue 1 because ultimately the CFC could do something all around Ligue 1 with reports, guests, interviews, real debates . But Canal does not want to offer Ligue 1 a setting that is more important than that. I'm not going to be fake modest, and I also think that some people don't watch anymore because I'm not there anymore, but that's not the majority », Confided, on his Youtube channel, the former star of Canal Football Club.
