A record and the end of a negative spiral. Still at the top of radio audiences, France Inter exceeded the record bar of 7 million daily listeners for the first time in the first quarter, while Europe 1 stopped the slide that began ten years ago, according to Médiamétrie Thursday.
These results are part of a still gloomy general context for the radio medium which, with 39.7 million followers, has lost nearly half a million compared to January-March 2022. In detail, France Inter posted a cumulative audience of 12.6%, up 0.1 point over one year, widening the gap with number 2, RTL, down 0.5 point, to 10.1%.
France Info, third radio station in France, behind RTL
“Never has any radio station gathered so many listeners”, rejoiced with AFP Adèle Van Reeth, who took control of the public antenna at the end of August 2022. This shows that France Inter “is aimed to all, ”she said, without giving any indication of possible changes for the morning carried by Léa Salamé and Nicolas Demorand, locomotives of the antenna.
Still last in the ranking of generalist radio stations, Europe 1 has seen its audience stabilize over one year at 3.9% of cumulative audience (2.2 million listeners), even gaining 154,000 followers compared to November-December 2022 It remains to be seen whether the Lagardère group station, on the verge of being swallowed up by Vincent Bolloré’s group, Vivendi, will recover after a decade of downward spiral and a controversial rapprochement with the very right-wing CNews in 2021.
For its part, Franceinfo retains its status as the third most listened to radio station in France, despite the strikes against the pension reform and the loss of half a million listeners compared to the first quarter of 2022, marked by the presidential election. and the start of the war in Ukraine.