The French are digging their catch up tv services, and a report shows that seventeen thousand streams from free to view tv networks in France were viewed in December 2010.

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The study carried out for the French film and TV institute by TV-replay.fr shows that by far and away the most popular streams were news broadcasts. In fact for q4 of 2010, 50% of catch up streams were news broadcasts, then came talk shows and game shows with 42.4%, and animation, documentary, fiction and films with 7.5%.

Around half the country (52.8%) say they watch catch-up TV and for those interested in the breakdown also showed that on average the month 544 fiction shows were streamed, 416 cartoons, 256 documentaries and nine movies.

For the devices used to view the streaming, the pc came on top with 78.7%, followed by a television set 42.6%, mobile phones 6.4%. Watching catch up on a TV set is a growing trend and grew for the quarter, and pc useage dropped a small amount.

The news continues the trend of connected tv taking off in Europe and the figures are expected to grow.

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