L'After Foot loses 18,000 listeners in a year and loses ground to Rothen

L’After Foot on RMC is declining in radio audiences: the late-evening show hosted by Gilbert Brisbois averaged 125,000 listeners over September-October 2026, down 18,000 from a year earlier, according to Médiamétrie data published Friday.

This decline follows a trend already visible in spring: in April, the programme had lost 40,000 listeners compared to the previous ranking. The rebound recorded over the summer had allowed it to recover much of that lost ground, driven notably by the Coupe du Monde, for which RMC was the official radio station in France. The momentum now appears to have reversed again.

Despite the decline, L’After Foot maintains its leading position in the 10 p.m.–midnight slot. Brisbois and his co-host Daniel Riolo have regularly qualified the interpretation of these figures, noting that the show’s podcasts generate significant consumption that does not enter into traditional audience measurements.

Internal competition is nonetheless being felt: Jérôme Rothen’s show gained 29,000 listeners over the same one-year period, widening the momentum gap between the two flagship football programmes on French airwaves.

L’After Foot had gone through turbulent times last year, amid controversy over the analysis of a parliamentary report on communitarian and Islamist drift in football, notably due to the presence of MP Caroline Yadan and Julien Odoul (Rassemblement national) on the show.