Paris (AFP)

In spite of Corinne Deacon's Bleues de Corinne's audience records, in June the TF1 group was not able to match its stratospheric Mondial-2018 scores, ending in a subdued 2018-2019 season that saw it score points against to M6, and France TV consolidate its lead.

Over the past month, TF1 remained at the top of the PAF channels, and recorded its best audience share since October, at 20.2%, all categories of viewers combined. But the one, up sharply from May, where it stood at 19.1%, nevertheless shows a sharp decline over one year (-1.4 points), according to Médiamétrie data released Monday.

Contrasting performances, linked to the football competitions that animated the grids of the first channel.

If the World Cup-2019 has allowed women's football to set new audience records and Bouygues group chain to reap its best figures since the beginning of the year (10.7 million viewers Friday for France- USA), hence this month-on-month growth, TF1 suffered from a comparison base that was very disadvantageous compared to a year earlier.

In June 2018, at the men's World Cup, the first channel had broadcast many more games and Didier Deschamps' Bleus had even more burst the screen.

TF1 also continues to benefit from the success of its news and its "Tomorrow belongs to us" series, and programs in the first part like "Koh Lanta".

In June, France 2 climbed 0.8 points to 13.7%, its best score in four years, and France 3 dropped 0.2 points to 9%, while M6 took 0.1 point to 8 , 5%, but remains at a very low level. Canal + and Arte each took 0.4 points at 1.3% and 2.6%, respectively.

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Among TNT channels, TMC took advantage of this Women's World Cup, where it broadcast part of the matches (+0.6 point to 3.5%) while C8 dropped 0.1 points to 2.9%. And among the news channels, LCI (+0.3 points to 0.8%) and CNews (+0.1 point to 0.7%) continued their dynamic against the champion BFMTV (-0.2 points at 2.1%).

These performances enabled France Télévisions to consolidate its gap over rivals over the entire television season (from September 2018 to June 2019), with an audience share of 28.4% (+0.2 points), before the TF1 group (-0.1 points to 27.4%) and the M6 ​​group which fell by 0.2 point to 13.3%.

The public service benefits from the success of fiction like "Captain Marleau" on France 3, which was again this year the most followed fiction within the PAF (with 8.7 million viewers on average), its soap operas " Such a great sun "and" More beautiful life ", but also its great documentaries like" Apocalypse ". And the confirmation of the recovery of the afternoons of France 2, while the channel is preparing to thoroughly review its morning programs.

M6 has suffered from poor performance programs like the "Queens of Shopping", but its JT are on the other hand in clear progression, like the 12.45 who signed his best season.

The Canal + group has regained its own 0.1 point to 6.2%, but is tied with the Altice channels (+0.2 points). The NRJ group is stable at 2.6%, as is Arte at 2.4%. The latter was pleased to obtain the highest score of satisfaction among French viewers, in the annual barometer conducted by IFOP.

Lastly, Gulli, which the Lagardère group is selling to M6, has lost 0.2 point over the season to 1.5% of the pda, and the sports channel L'Equipe has increased its market share by 0, 1 point to 1.3%.

? 2019 AFP