While the discussions between the two audiovisual public companies dragged in length, the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, announced the realization of this project for March.
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“I am pleased to announce (…) The launch, by France Télévisions and Radio France, a digital proximity offer shared at the end of the first quarter 2022.” After the information channel FranceInfo, born, In 2016, the rapprochement of radio and public television, after the diffusion of common morning between France and France 3, the desire for synergies between the different entities of the audiovisual public will soon take place in a “large digital media Local life “, welcomed Roselyne Bachelot, Tuesday, November 9, before the Senate Culture Commission, which auditioned it.
A “light and operational structure with joint governance” (a group of economic interest) will be created, said the Minister of Culture, so that the two partners construct the editorial offer together, find the name and agree on a common technology platform. “This media is intended to be extremely ambitious and becoming one of the main digital deals of the landscape,” welcomes an internal source at Radio France.
Pretend that Roselyne Bachelin’s statement surprised everyone would lie. In both public audiovisual companies, trade union organizations had been prevented within twenty-four hours, and press releases were ready. It prevents. “For us, this project was in a dead point and had no chance of seeing the day before 2022, otherwise the presidential election”, recognizes Matthieu Darriet, Cosecretary of the SNJ in Radio France. Committed for months, the discussions between the two companies struggled to succeed, not just because the pandemic of Covid-19 slowed them. “Between the two houses, it is not the cordial agreement,” says another actor of the project.
“The state takes over the hand”
In an interview granted to West-France, in November 2020, the President of Radio France, Sibyl Veil, explained to have proposed to his counterpart counterpote, Delphine Ernotte, that the France blue platform “could accommodate the Digital productions of France 3 “. An initiative little appreciated on the side of the chain, according to several sources, because there is no equitable. “Given the impasse of the discussions (…), France Télévisions had refocused on a platform project 100% France 3, adds Pierre Mouchel, the Secretary General of the CGT de France Télévisions. This time, the state takes up The hand and imposes its decision so that both parties come to get along. “
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