France’s conservative powerhouse CNews has stormed to the top of the news ratings in 2025, snagging a whopping 3.4% audience share to crush rivals like BFMTV at 2.8%, LCI at 2%, and Franceinfo at 0.9%\u2014proving the French public is hungry for unfiltered right-wing takes in a media swamp dominated by leftist drivel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Owned by billionaire Vincent Bollor\u00e9 through Canal+ Group, the channel\u2014launched just in 2017\u2014has skyrocketed like a French Fox News, with CEO G\u00e9rald-Brice Viret saying, “The facts are clear: the French people have chosen us,” and vowing to keep shaking up “French democracy” in 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right-wing firebrand \u00c9ric Ciotti hailed it as a “historic result,” blasting it as a massive win for free speech against the elite chokehold. But the elites aren’t taking this lying down: CNews is under fire from France’s media watchdog Arcom, slapped with a formal notice for daring to air hard truths on immigration and Islam that could supposedly “incite discrimination.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
State broadcasters France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions and Radio France are suing Bollor\u00e9’s empire for \u20ac1.5 million over “defamatory” coverage and “unfair competition,” while Arcom probed the channel in April 2025 for its no-holds-barred reporting on Marine Le Pen’s conviction, vowing tighter reins on “pluralism and independence.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Detractors smear it as “far-right” propaganda, but the surging viewership\u2014700,000 tuning into hits like Pascal Praud’s L\u2019Heure des Pros\u2014shows the public couldn’t care less about the pearl-clutching. As Bollor\u00e9’s bold vision reshapes the landscape, it’s a stinging rebuke to the establishment’s grip, signaling that conservative voices are here to stay\u2014and dominate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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