France Inter still higher, Europe 1 continues its rise, music stations losing momentum

The figures from Médiamétrie published this Thursday show an increase in general stations and a decline on the musical side.

LAre the France Inter teams still popping champagne, or are they starting to get used to it? In the morning of this Thursday, the day of publication of Médiamétrie’s audience figures, which cover the months of November and December, the atmosphere was in any case festive. In his cheerful column, Matthieu Noël recalled: “It’s the rule, we always wait for the official publication of the Médiamétrie results at 8 a.m. sharp before praising ourselves publicly but here, like The Parisian revealed them last night, we are going to proceed with fine allusions,” describing these hearings as “quarterly coke rails called self-satisfaction”. With 7.5 million daily listeners (13.3% cumulative audience), or more than 500,000 additional listeners in one year, Inter not only remains the leading radio station in France, but also signs the best performance on all channels since 2000. The morning show, in particular, broke its records by bringing together 5 million people every day.

If the radio medium remains weak, with 38.5 million pairs of ears connected to the airwaves (198,000 fewer than last year), it is slowly climbing back up compared to last school year (+679,000 people) . The winners of this rise are not the musical ones, but the general stations, which bring together 17.9 million listeners (+400,000 in one year). And among them, Europe 1 and its ever more right-wing line, which has continued its rise without a hitch for three years, gaining 0.8 cumulative audience points in one year (to be listened to every day by 2.7 million faithful) .

More generally, and despite the observation of a “informational exodus” made by the Jean-Jaurès foundation at the beginning of December, evoking a flight of French people from television and radio antennas in the face of anxiety-provoking and repetitive news, the information always seems to attract listeners. France Info thus gained 220,000 listeners in one year (5.2 million listeners, 2.8 for the morning), achieving its best audience in twenty-one years and maintaining its second place on the podium, which it had delighted at RTL at the last wave. This manages to halt the decline, gaining 50,000 pairs of ears compared to the start of the school year (to 4.9 million listeners), but still loses 400,000 over one year. RMC remains in fourth place with 3 million listeners, just ahead of France Bleu, renamed Ici le 6 January, which, with 4.8% cumulative audience, is neck and neck with Europe 1. France Culture, it maintains 2 million listeners.

Conversely, music radio stations, which, during the last waves, shone with their good scores, are looking gloomy this time, losing 800,000 listeners in one year (16.9 million). 400,000 people have abandoned NRJ, which has fallen below the 4 million listener mark. Nostalgie, for its part, only lost 50,000 (3.6 million), but put a stop to its good progress on the last waves. On the rap side, it’s a cold shower for Skyrock, who loses 500,000 pairs of ears (2.9 million). Not to mention RFM and Europe 2, which reached their lowest historical level, with 1.6 million for the first (which fell below 3% audience) and only 900,000 for the second, which thus fell below the symbolic bar of the million. Two exceptions to this rout: FIP, which gained 100,000 listeners in one year, broke its record with 837,000 pairs of ears. As for Nova, it continues its comeback (+ 200,000 listeners, 1.4% audience), taking advantage of the Meurice effect.