After failure of merger of TF1 and M6, former boss of Canal+ Rodolphe Belmer will take head of TF1

Odolpe Belmer will replace Gilles Pélisson in February 2023.

Le Monde

A week after the failure of the merger project between TF1 and M6, the TF1 group announced Friday, September 23 that Rodolphe Belmer was going to replace Gilles Pélisson as President and CEO (CEO).

This movement will be proposed to the board of directors on October 27, for an entry into office in February 2023, according to a press release. Gilles Pélisson will keep a non -executive presidency in the interval. Mr. Pélisson will then become “Deputy Managing Director of the Bouygues group in charge of the media and development”.

Rodolphe Belmer is the former boss of Canal+, which he left in 2015.

/Media reports.