Monaco Hebdo

What is Monaco Hebdo?

Monaco Hebdo is a French-language news title in Monaco. Its legal notice names the publisher as S.A.M. E.D.L.A., registered as “RC 57 S 00580”, at 2 rue de la Lüjerneta in Monaco, with Roberto Testa as director of publication and Raphaël Brun as editor-in-chief. It gives a commission paritaire number, 0912 I 89 359, names Graphic Service in Monaco as printer, and lists advertising and subscription contacts through Caroli Régie.^[1]

The legal-notice page describes the title as “une publication du groupe CAROLI”.^[1] The site of L'Observateur de Monaco, which describes itself as a “Mensuel d'actualités de Monaco”, uses the same words of itself.^[8] Both statements are the publications' own. No entry for Monaco Hebdo in a regulator's register, and no report on Monaco's media from a monitoring body such as Reporters Without Borders, the Media Pluralism Monitor or the Euromedia Ownership Monitor, was retrieved.

What does Monaco Hebdo cover?

Monaco Hebdo is a general news title with sections on society, politics, the economy and sport. Its sport section, as read on 26 September 2026, listed among its latest items ten reports dated from 4 to 24 September 2026. They included the first Monegasque women's football derby, a disagreement between the supporters' group Ultras Monaco 1994 and the Monegasque State, a first podium for the E1 Team de Monaco, a cycling academy project, Monaco's first sprint race at the 2027 Grand Prix, the refusal of AS Monaco's basketball team in Nationale Masculine 1, the departure of a player from AS Monaco's football club, and the Stade Louis II's appearance in a video game.^[2]

Its report of 16 September 2026, by Clément Martinet, stated that the Bureau fédéral of the French basketball federation had refused on 12 September 2026 AS Monaco Basket's entry in Nationale Masculine 1, and that the matter would continue “au tribunal de Monaco le 2 octobre 2026”.^[3] Its report of 24 September 2026 gave the result of the women's match of 20 September 2026, Monaco United 3, AS Monaco Football Féminin 1, played in “Régional 1 Féminin” at the Stade Didier-Deschamps in Cap d'Ail.^[5]

On multi-sport events, it reported on 14 May 2026 that the Games of the Small States of Europe would be held in Monaco “du 17 au 23 mai 2027”, dates confirmed at an assembly of the participating Olympic committees in Monaco in early May 2026, and that golf had been added to the programme.^[4]

How large is Monaco Hebdo's audience?

No audited circulation or readership figure for Monaco Hebdo was retrieved. Neither its legal notice nor its sport section publishes a circulation or audience figure.^[1][2] No audience-measurement body publishing per-title figures for Monaco's press was found, which is a limitation of the evidence for every title on this list.

What can be dated is its activity. Its sport section carried items dated 24 September 2026, and its politics section carried on the same date a report by Mélicia Poitiers on the government's programme for the new political year.^[2][7] The title was publishing on 26 September 2026.

Since when has Monaco Hebdo existed?

The site's legal notice carries the line “1995 - 2026 © Monaco Hebdo, tous droits réservés”.^[1] That is the publisher's own copyright line and is reported as such; no founding date from an independent source was retrieved.

Its archive is dated. Its reports on Monegasque television include one by Raphaël Brun of 18 December 2024, which reported that Monaco Info and TV Monaco would give way to a new channel on 1 September 2025, and one of 22 January 2026, which reported that proposals on bringing the two together were expected at the end of that month.^[6][9] Its report of 24 September 2026 quoted the Minister of State on the merger project.^[7]

Why does Monaco Hebdo matter in Monaco's sport?

It is a Monaco-based French-language title with a named publisher registered in Monaco and a sport section that, as read on 26 September 2026, reported on Monegasque clubs in French competitions, on the Grand Prix and on the Principality's hosting of the 2027 Games of the Small States of Europe.^[1][2][4]

Its sport reports name the deciding bodies and dates in the AS Monaco Basket case, such as the French federation's decision of 12 September 2026, and give venues as played, such as Cap d'Ail for the women's derby of 20 September 2026.^[3][5]