France: L'Équipe channel posts historic annual audience in 2019 (share: 1.4%) for the free channel

The L'Équipe channel (free-TV) recorded the best annual audience in its history in 2019, with an audience share of 1.4%, indicated the only free sports channel in France on 31/12/2019.

The Amaury Groupe channel (called “L'Équipe 21” before 09/03/2016) has carried out the following annual audience shares during the last five years (free-to-air broadcasting since 12/12/2012):
2018: 1.2%
2017: 1.1%
2016: 0.9%
2015: 0.6%
2014: 0.4%
2013: 0.2%

The L'Équipe channel recorded the third largest increase in French free channels in 2019, behind the public channel France 2 (+0.4 percentage point audience share) and LCI (+0.3), the news channel of the TF1 group.

• Jerome Saporito, former deputy director of sports for TF1 Production, was appointed director of the L'Équipe channel on 14/12/2018 and took office on 07/01/2019.

Audience shares of free French channels in 2019

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