Audience ratings: 4 free channels - june 2016

Boulogne, 4th july 2016

JUNE: TF1 GROUP AUDIENCES

TF1: EXCELLENT SCORES FOR EURO 2016

THE STRATEGY OF EDITORIAL COMPLEMENTARITY IS BRINGING RESULTS WITH RECORD PERFORMANCE FIGURES
FOR THE TMC, NT1 & HD1 CLUSTER

TF1 : EXCEPTIONAL FIGURES FOR EURO  2016 – AN EXCELLENT MONTH FOR NEWS REPORTING AND THE CINEMA

Euro 2016

A historic record for a European Cup opening match: 14.5m viewers with a peak of 16.5m.
Prime-time matches not involving the French team also attracted an exceptional  audiences with up to 9.2m viewers for Poland/Portugal.
Le Mag de l’Euro, a post-match programme, was widely watched with up to  6.2m viewers and an audience share of 35%.
Telefoot posted its highest viewing figures for the year so far on 3 July with an audience share of 20% (1.3m viewers.)

Excellent figures for news reporting

The 8:00 pm news bulletin reported its best month of the year with an average audience share of 26% and up to 7.1m viewers (audience share of 31.3%) on Monday 27 June.
The 1:00 pm news bulletin attracted up to 5.5 million viewers for an audience share of up to 41.4%.
Magazine programmes ended the season on a high with up to 4.4m viewers for Reportages (audience share of 32%) and up to 3.4m viewers for Sept à Huit (audience share of 23.4%)

CINE DIMANCHE,  viewers’ favourite cinema event

6.3m viewers for World War Z, 38% of WPDM<50 and 26% audience share,
La Chance de ma vie (4.9m viewers, 22% audience share and 30% of WPDM<50)

TMC : A HISTORIC RECORD WITH EURO 2016  AND AN INCREASE IN OVERALL FIGURES

Audience shares of 2.8%  for the 4+ group (+0.2 pt vs May),  3.3% of WPDM<50  (+0.2 pt),
and 3.2% of the 25-49 age group(+0.1 pt)

Euro 2016: with 3.5m viewers for the Slovakia/England match, TMC was the second most watched channel on the evening of 20 June. It also achieved a daytime record with an audience share of 5.8%
TMC is the leading digital terrestrial channel with a broad offering in films : up to 1.4m viewers for the film Die Hard 4 (8.5% audience share among the 25-49 age group) .
CSI Miami registers  the highest audience of the month for a DTT channel : 1.2m viewers.
Record figures for the series Les mystères de l’Amour: up to 865,000 viewers with an audience share of up to 11.4% of WPDM<50

HD1 : A RECORD MONTH FOR THE STORY-TELLING CHANNEL
A historic record with a 1.9% audience share among the 4+ and 25-49 groups,
and 2.4% among WPDM<50.

The biggest audience of the month for French fiction: Injustice, with almost 860,000 viewers and 3.6% audience share.
With respect to prime time programmes, the mainstays of the channel’s offering attracted up to 800,000 viewers: with films such as The Green Mile and 22 Bullets,  US series such as  CSI: NY, or French fiction programmes such as RIS Police Scientifique and Section de Recherches, as well as Injustice. 
During the day, the channel shows programmes tailored to the female public: audience share of up to 6.7% among WPDM<50 for Les enquêtes impossibles, and up to 5.2% for the series Ghost Whisperer.

NT1 : THE DTT CHANNEL REPORTING THE STRONGEST VIEWING INCREASE AMONGST THE “UNDER 35”AGE GROUP IN ONE YEAR:
Audience shares of 3.6% among the 15-34 age group (+0.4 pt in one year)
and 3.5% among WPDM<50 (+0.3 pt).

The channel’s film offering attracted the highest audiences of the month : 1.1m viewers for RIPD Rest in Peace Department and 6.9% among the 15-34 age group, 1.1m for Léon: the Professional and 6.8% among the 15-34 age group, 1m viewers for The Hangover and 7.3% of the 15-34 age group.
US series enjoyed considerable success with young adults: audience share of up to 10% among the 15-34 age group for Friends, 13.8% for One Tree Hill, 8.2% for The Vampire Diaries, 7.4% for Grey’s Anatomy and 4.8% for Two Broke Girls.
Coaching programmes are popular with female viewers: up to 4.9% of WPDM< 50 for Super Nanny, 4.2% for Prématurés, le combat d’une vie and 3.9% for Pascal le grand frère.

Overall, the three DTT channels had audience share of 6.5% (best monthly performance in 2016), 9.2% among WPDM<50 (second-best historic score) and 7.8% among the 25-49 age group (up +0.2 pt vs June 2015).