The 24-hour news channel in French, English, Arabic and Spanish
France 24, the international news channel, broadcasts 24/7 in French, Arabic, English and Spanish. France 24 offers professional, balanced news and information that fight against fake news. It lives by one rule: move swiftly. The channel works on the ground and covers international highlights. France 24 is careful to verify, contextualise and decipher the news it delivers, enabling its viewers to understand the world’s issues in all their complexity, and to form their own opinions.
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574millionpeople worldwide receive at least one of the four versions of France 24
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4.5millionhotel rooms broadcast France 24
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73.1millionfollowers on social networks
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200correspondent offices worldwide -
575journalists
A pioneering channel in debunking fake news
France 24 provides professional, balanced and expert information in French, English, Arabic and Spanish. Its motto is to move swiftly, as demonstrated by its ability to deploy rapidly in regions where international events are unfolding, as in recent months in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iran, the Near and Middle East, etc.
France 24 is a pioneer in the fight against fake news, thanks to the expertise of its journalists and correspondents, and its unique network of 5,000 Observers around the world who track down false information and help to gather evidence from even the most inaccessible areas. Its programme on this topic, ‘Truth or Fake’ is a daily feature that provides keys to detecting manipulated images. This programme is widely used in classrooms, as part of FMM’s partnership with the French Ministry of Education (CLEMI).
A media that combines responsiveness and hindsight
The channel is renowned for its on-the-ground reports, which are often honoured with the most prestigious awards: Bayeux Prize, FIGRA, pre-selections for the Albert Londres Prize, Lauriers de l’Audiovisuel… While France 24 is a news channel that gives pride of place to live broadcasts and reports, it also cultivates the art of debate in its studios with the personalities who make the news in France and around the world, a true hallmark of the channel in the global broadcasting landscape.
It also covers economic and technological news and pays particular attention to environmental issues and the climate emergency.
On France 24, Europe is also given pride of place, with dedicated magazines every week, and coverage of European issues in all news segments and debates.
Culture is also one of France 24’s international focuses, with dedicated programmes in all its languages.
A global offering
France 24 was established in 2006 in the digital age. The channel has a strong presence on social networks (Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok) and is innovative in the content it offers, particularly with mobile video, which is heavily consumed on digital. Journalists work in a versatile way to produce on all media. Its digital audience is growing steadily and France 24 is the leading French media outlet on Facebook and YouTube. In recent months, France 24 has also launched its WhatsApp channels, which now have over 5 million followers.
France 24 also provides a third of the programming for Franceinfo channel 27, the national public service news channel. Every day, the channel brings its international flavour through modules, live interactions and magazines. France 24 is also broadcast live from midnight to 6.30 am on Franceinfo channel 27.
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Europe9%46%
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French speaking Africa34%3%
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ANMO23%14%
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Non-french speaking Africa13%18%
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North America2%21%
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Latin America4%6%
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Asia16%4%
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French-speaking Africa, France 24’s biggest audience
France 24 is the leading international news channel in French-speaking Africa, across all audiences. The channel features in the Top 5 of most-watched channels every day, all channels combined, in 3 French-speaking capitals, and in the Top 10 in 6 of the 7 capitals studied. It is the top channel among all channels combined in terms of daily audience in Kinshasa and Brazzaville. It is also identified and known by over 90% of the population of French-speaking Africa.
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In Maghreb, France 24 is one of the top three international news channels
France 24 confirms its success in North Africa, ranking second among the international news channels most watched each week by the population. In Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, almost one person in five watches France 24 every week (18.8%), a figure that rises to 34.1% among executives and managers. France 24’s awareness rate remains at its highest level, with more than three quarters of the population (75.4%; +2.9 pts vs 2023) and nine out of ten executives and managers (90.9%) aware of the channel.
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In the Americas, audience success driven by France 24 in Spanish
In Latin America in particular, France 24 recorded 4 million viewers (in just three countries measured). In North America, France 24’s weekly audience rose to 3.3 million viewers (+0.9 million).
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Asia, an area of conquest with significant audiences
France 24 also enjoys a large audience in Asia, where the channel is watched by more than 18.3 million viewers every week.
A powerful media on digital environments
On its proprietary environments, France 24, all languages combined, recorded more than 21 million monthly visits in 2024 on its own environments, and more than 2.3 billion launches on all platforms combined. On YouTube and WhatsApp, France 24 is the leading French media outlet. The channel has a community of over 73 million followers on social networks (Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and WhatsApp).
