Audiences for TF1, still deprived of broadcasting by Canal+ due to a commercial dispute, remained at a historic low in October, but its little sister LCI recorded a new record, according to figures from Médiamétrie published on Monday.
As in September, TF1 saw its audience share fall by 2.3 points over one year, to 17.7%. , LCI), whose overall audience share fell to 25.6%, from 27.7% a year earlier and 25.7% last month.
However, TF1 remains the leader and progresses in one month on the preferred targets of advertisers, underlines the group.
The channel recorded an audience share of 23% among women in charge of purchases under 50 (+0.5 points compared to September), and 22.7% among 15-34 year olds (+1. 7 point), driven in particular by the return of "Star academy" and the series "Les Combattantes".
Another reason for satisfaction for the group, the record signed by its news channel LCI, at 2% audience share, up 0.9 points over one year, the strongest increase in the PAF for the second month. consecutive.
France 2 remains stable in the general classification
In the general ranking, France 2 remains second and stable at 14.5%, ahead of France 3 (9.3%, +0.3 point) and M6, which lost 0.8 point to 8.5%.
Just behind, France 5 and C8 each gained 0.5 points, with 3.8% and 3.3% respectively.
Arte (+0.1 point) and TMC (-0.1 point) are on an equal footing, at 2.9%.
RMC Découverte and RMC Story each gained 0.2 points, the channels of the Altice group reaching 2.2% and 2% respectively in audience share.
For news channels, LCI is on the heels of CNews, stable at 2.2%, but remains far behind BFMTV (3.2%, +0.6 points), and ahead of Franceinfo (0.8% audience share, +0.1 point),
For the first time this year, the overall television viewing time, of 3h24 per day and per person in October, increased over one year, by two minutes compared to October 2021. Rarely, the time spent watching TV also increases by two minutes among 15-34 year olds, to 1h26.