While the news was very intense in June with the announcement of the legislative elections, CNews achieved 3.5% audience share (PDA), compared to 3.4% for BFMTV. NICOLAS MESSYASZ/SIPA
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Given the results of the first round of the legislative elections, the news is hardly surprising. In June, CNews was the leader among continuous news channels, for the second month in a row, as announced by the channel this Monday, July 1, citing figures from Médiamétrie. CNews dethroned BFMTV in May for the first time in its history.
With this new first place over a full month, CNews marks another point in the relaunch of its TNT frequency, currently in progress. The channel belongs to the Canal+ group, itself controlled by Vivendi, the group of conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.
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While the news was very rich in June with the announcement of the early legislative elections, CNews achieved 3.5% audience share (PDA), compared to 3.4% for BFMTV. LCI comes third among the news channels with 2% and the public channel - last with 1%.
CNews signs its “historic monthly record”she congratulated herself in a press release. In May, she had achieved 2.8% audience share, compared to 2.7% for BFMTV. CNews is boycotted by many left-wing personalities who accuse it of being positioned on the far right, which it denies.
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“There are a lot of sensitivities” at CNews, Guillaume Bigot assured AFP before the first round. “There is something Pavlovian about saying right – extreme right – Bolloré, it’s much more complicated than that”he said.
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“We are a mirror of society. Our progress has been constant and has accelerated over the past few months.”declared Serge Nedjar, general director of CNews, in May.
Like C8, which belongs to the same group, CNews is regularly called to order by the audiovisual regulator, Arcom, due to comments made on its channel.
In May, Arcom fined him 50,000 euros for comments made by journalist Geoffroy Lejeune, according to whom anti-Semitism and prison overcrowding were consequences of “Arab-Muslim immigration”.
CNews was created in 2017 on the ashes of iTélé after Vincent Bolloré took control. In the procedure to put its TNT frequency back into play, it will defend its case on July 15 before Arcom, which receives all the candidates for a hearing.
By Le Nouvel Obs with AFP
