The audience curves of the continuous TNT news channels CNews and BFMTV have been getting closer for several weeks.

They ended up crossing paths on Monday, leaving CNews for the first time to pass in front of its competitor BFM TV.

Good results mainly due to the emissions of Eric Zemmour and Pascal Praud.

It's a first.

And even "a symbolic turning point", as the newspaper

Le Figaro

writes

.

CNews' audiences exceeded those of BFM TV.

A first, therefore, except for the week of strike at BFM TV, last June.

In detail, the Canal + group's info channel has a 2.7% audience share against 2.5% for that of the Altice group.

These figures are only valid for the day of Monday: the switch therefore remains to be confirmed with the figures for Tuesday.

But audience figures already published confirm a trend glimpsed last week. 

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BFM TV remains the leader over time

For several days, CNews had indeed considerably reduced the gap with BFM TV, reducing for two days the gap between the channels to 0.1% audience share. CNews' good results are notably due to its programs

Face à l'Info

 with Éric Zemmour and

L'heure des pros

by Pascal Praud.

That said, over time, BFM remains largely the leader of news channels: 2.9% against 1.8% audience share for CNews last month. This is one of the points underlined by the director of BFM TV, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, in an email sent to employees on Tuesday. "Let's keep our line" he wrote in his internal message. Marc-Olivier Fogiel also explains, as he had already done in

Culture Médias

, that "CNews has become a channel of debate and opinion". "A model that addresses another target," he analyzes.