Canal+’s flagship program for many years, Canal Football Club is losing momentum. Last Sunday, the audiences were particularly low, with only 185,000 viewers. The previous weekend, the CFC had done even worse with 170,000 faithful, or less than one percent of market share.
While the situation becomes very critical for the program presented by Hervé Mathoux, Pierre Ménès gave his reasons for this disaster.
“ It’s very simple to explain. Loss of Ligue 1 rights. Which means that this program is still in prime time access on Sundays and making a program without an image of Ligue 1 and with just images of the European Cups which are already 3 or 4 days old, or even 5, plus the English championship which generally no one cares about, is not a good idea “, explained the former star consultant of the encrypted channel on his YouTube channel.
“I don’t understand the point of keeping the show as is”
“ I’m not happy about it because I don’t have any particular feeling of revenge. It doesn’t sadden me either because we shouldn’t mess around either but I don’t understand the point of keeping the show as it is.” added the 62-year-old journalist, ousted from the BollorĂ© group following the broadcast of the documentary “I’m not a slut, I’m a journalist” by Marie Portolano.
And to conclude: “ If, in the coming months, Canal were to regain a position in Ligue 1 as rumors are starting to circulate, we could find a CFC with Ligue 1 summaries and that would change the situation in terms of audience. »
