Fires outside French high schools lead KDKA's Pittsburgh weekend

A short on the student protests that have shut or disrupted hundreds of schools in France ran far ahead of the station's local stories, and its comments became an argument over one word.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 54,489 views a day, 36 times a normal first day on this channel (1,522).

Student protests spread from Paris, with violent clashes forcing hundreds of high schools to close

France, not Pittsburgh, led. KDKA-TV's channel spent the weekend on home ground: a rally in Green Tree to save "skill games" before their removal deadline, fans back at PPG Paints Arena for the Penguins' home opener against the Canadiens, and Ray Petelin explaining the difference between hurricanes and nor'easters. The upload that drew the crowd came from across the Atlantic.

The short, "Student protests spread from Paris, with violent clashes forcing hundreds of high schools to close," covers French high school students lighting fires outside their schools and facing off with police on Friday. According to the description, the movement has closed or disrupted more than 560 schools and shows no sign of easing. The title does not say who filmed it.

It came close to 55,000 views in its first day. This channel's shorts usually finish their first day nearer 1,500.

The comment section moved even faster. A typical short here gets about one comment on its first day, and this one drew well over a hundred. Much of the talk is about vocabulary: whether "protests" is the right word for fires and clashes with police, and how a reporter can tell who in a crowd is actually a student.

Meanwhile the station's own Saturday stories, the rally and the hockey night among them, were only starting to collect their first views.

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The numbers

For a station whose shorts usually stay in the low thousands, this one stands well apart from the rest of its weekend.

the video's first day

usual first day here

1,522

this video

54,489

subscribers

208,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

237,542,612

views per day

109,038

typical day: 328,624

the video

views

56,662

likes

197

comments

187

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

NBC10 Philadelphia

226,000

CBS News Sacramento

210,000

CBS Pittsburgh

208,000

FOX 7 Austin

192,000

CHCH News

179,000

WJZ

177,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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