The hearings of the Channel Football Club are at half mast. Despite the arrival of Bertrand Latour last August and the presence on set of consultants like Laure Boulleau, Mickaël Landreau and Olivier Dacourt, the Canal+ show only attracts around 320,000 viewers.
“Between my time and today’s audience, the Canal Football Club audience has been divided by three”notes Pierre Ménès on his YouTube channel.
How can we explain such a decline? The loss of Ligue 1 rights necessarily weighs, according to the former sidekick of Hervé Mathoux. “We must not forget that in my time, there were all the Ligue 1 summaries and a program which was entirely devoted, or almost, to Ligue 1 and a little to the Premier League when Canal+ obtained the rights »notes the former sports journalist, who left the encrypted channel on bad terms.
Too much English football in the CFC?
For him, the writing of CFC despite everything, made a mistake by no longer putting the French championship at the heart of its program. “Now there is no longer a single image of Ligue 1 at CFC, and I think it is an editorial mistake to give so much space to English football in prime time access on Sunday evenings, people are don’t give a damn”he analyzes, nevertheless understanding the reasons for this new orientation.
“I know that there is a political will not to give too much space to Ligue 1 because ultimately the CFC could do something all around Ligue 1 with reports, guests, interviews, real debates . But Canal does not want to offer Ligue 1 a setting that is more important than thathe said. I’m not going to be fake modest, and I also think that some people don’t watch anymore because I’m no longer there, but that’s not the majority. »
