Tuesday September 1st. On the set of the show TBT9 (Tout Beau Tout Neuf) hosted by Cyril Hanouna on W9, the columnists once again decided to attack the public audiovisual service. With a tackle for Lena Situations in passing.
Cyril Aabou alias Raymond Aabou presents his column. The banner at the bottom of the screen is enticing: “La téloche à Raymond. Léna Situations: a catastrophic show at Bercy and France Télévisions buys the concert.” The passage is available on M6 Replay in the second part of the show, around the 14th minute: “She is doing a concert in Bercy where she brings together 20,000 people […] the information that bothered me is that this concert […] it was bought for 1.2 million, or even 1.4 million by France TV […] isn’t there something better to do with 1.3 million? »
Indeed, August 31, 2026, the influencer Léna Situations organized a giant event at the Accor Arena in Bercy in front of 20,000 people to definitively end her famous “August Vlogs” as 20 Minutes specifies. The show, entitled “The one where they say goodbye”, will be rebroadcast on September 12 on France 2 and the france.tv platform in the second part of the evening.
Jean-Luc Lemoine then launches a mischievous: “Are you sure of your figures? », to which Raymond replies: “Yes, it was someone who heated me up with the figures on purpose”. On the set, everyone seems to accredit these amounts, which are nevertheless staggering for anyone with some knowledge of TV economics.
Internet users are getting excited
Following this fake news, from September 1 and 2, 2026, the figure of 1.4 million euros was widely reported on the Internet. We also include posts from @ImpactMediaFR, (more than 3 million impressions) from @Guigz75116 (more than 170,000) and even from Jean-Marc Morandini. The TBT9 channel goes so far as to publish an extract of the enormity on its X account.
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However, Internet users are wondering in the comments about these figures. Some people question an amount which easily appears unrealistic on the scale of France TV's finances.
In an article published on Wednesday September 2, CGTV, an independent media devoted to television news, contacted France Télévisions which denied these figures. The group assures that the recording of the Lena Situations concert cost less than 200,000 euros. Information confirmed at 20 minutes by the France TV group.
In the TBT9 show on Wednesday September 2, Gilles Verdez then denies the figures from the day before. The correction is also shared on […] This information that we gave was false, we are correcting it. 1.2 million is the price of the production and the cost of the concert. According to France TV, the figures we gave were incorrect. In fact, it would be 200,000 euros per purchase, but I would like to point out that France Télévisions did not give us […] the price of digital and we did not have the purchase price of the rights. So to these 200,000 euros, we must add an undoubtedly substantial sum which we do not have and which has not been disclosed to us. »
Is the sum of 200,000 euros, confirmed by France Télévisions, to W9 “substantial” as Gilles Verdez insinuates?
According to France Télévisions “the announced sum of 200,000 euros is indeed the right one. » It corresponds to the purchase amount of broadcast rights, since the show will subsequently be broadcast on the platforms. The group's management also argues that “Léna is a societal phenomenon” and that “France TV shows these events which are part of the history of youth”. She adds that “it is this envelope that is set on average for this type of live show”. And this, especially since there is no advertising revenue earned, commercial advertising being authorized from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. but strictly prohibited from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. A real investment far from the extravagant sum announced without verification by TBT9.
