A 2025 Mercato of unprecedented magnitude

Removers of the numbering of channels on TNT, transfers of presenters, new entertainment programs … It’s a lively television season that ends.

Each end of the season, the television media restructure their teams and their program grids. Announced as agitated, this 2025 TV transfer window has held its promises, with channels that are experiencing big news for next season.

Few seasons, so far, had experienced so many transfers. You have to go back until 1986, when Silvio Berlusconi launched the La Five chain, for which no animators had been debauched. Or in the beginnings of M6, a year later. But at the time, there were only six television channels. There are 25 today, with naturally more movements from one season to another.

David Larramendy, boss of the M6 ​​group, struck hard at the start of the summer, recruiting three major presenters. Orphan of C8, to whom the Arcom has removed its TNT frequency, Cyril Hanouna is supposed to return to pure entertainment, with the daily All beautiful, all 9In front evening on W9. Anne-Sophie Lapix, farewell to the 20-hour newspaper in France 2, after eight years of presentation, and will now conduct weekly interviews on M6, Sunday, with personalities who make the news. And Olivier Minne, much appreciated by viewers, especially for Fort Boyardthat he had been hosting for twenty-two years, also left the public service for M6, where he will pilot three games, including the legendary The weak link.

The duo composed of Pascal Bataille and Laurent Fontaine also joins the group, to resume There’s only the truth that matters On W9. Finally, the arrival of Francis Huster on M6 created the surprise. He takes the lead of a police investigation, broadcast this summer and baptized Murder Party at the museum.

Caroline Roux having declined, it is Léa Salamé who inherits the chair of the television news of the evening of France 2, for which she has left her place at the morning of France Inter, which she co-animated with Nicolas Demorand since 2017. The presenter warned that she would be back in the event of the candidacy of her companion, Raphaël Glucksmann, to the presidential election of 2027.

Entertainment also has some changes in the group. Faustine Bollaert takes over from Laurence Boccolini to the presentation of TV childrenwhile retaining his testimonial program It starts today. The show Kindergarten will now be broadcast on France 4 and dedicated to the family, with, at its head, Marie Portolano replacing Agathe Lecaron. Finally, after thirty-seven years of daily presence on France 3, Questions for a champion will no longer be broadcast during the week. A decision that surprises its loyal viewers, which France Télévisions justifies by evoking budgetary reasons. A petition, launched for the maintenance of the game, exceeded 20,000 signatures.

If the incarnations of TF1 have retained great stability, its news channel LCI, on the other hand, has chosen to build its game. Since the change of numbering on TNT, on June 6, the chain has jumped 11 places, joining Canal 15, in place of Canal 26, a position which should be more favorable to it. She thus joins the information block created by Arcom, composed of BFMTV, CNEWS, LCI and Franceinfo (Canal 16).

LCI has done its market, especially in BFMTV, which inherited the Canal 13, and which it hopes to get closer to the audience. The gap between the two channels has never been so weak as at least June: only 0.6 point. But BFMTV remains for the moment in second place in the news channels, still behind CNews, now a large leader.