During the months of November and December 2021, the radio media found color.
It has regained 429,000 listeners in one year, after losing more than a million due to confinements and cover fires.
The two largest general interest radios have benefited the most from this renewed interest. France Inter, still the number one radio station in France with 12.7% cumulative audience, beats the historical record of listeners with 6.959 million pairs of ears every day.
"Never has a radio station gathered so many listeners"
welcomes Laurence Bloch, director of France Inter. Its parent company Radio France is still in the process of selecting a replacement for Laurence Bloch. Foreseen Marc-Olivier Fogiel and Vincent Meslet would no longer be in the race according to Le Point.
RTL is also in good shape with 11% of the audience, or 6 million listeners every day.
Above all, the station is clearly progressing in audience share with a record result of 13.3%, which means that its listeners stay tuned for longer.
Behind the peloton of followers is left behind.
France Info, with 8.5% of the cumulative audience, loses one point in a year, because the Covid news was less significant in November and December, despite the new wave of the Omicron variant.
NRJ stabilized at 8.1% of audience as RMC which with its new grid equaled its score of a year ago.
Europe 1 still at its lowest
On the other hand, nothing seems to be able to stop the retreat of Europe 1. The new grid is doing even less well than the old one with only 4.2% of cumulative audience in November December 2021 against 5% in the same period of 2020 and 4.4% on the re-entry wave between September and October 2021.
France Culture is doing well with 3.1% of audience or 1.7 million listeners, and signs its second historic wave.
