The former boss of Europe 1, of the “Sunday Journal” and the “Figaro” led the programs of TF1 from 1987 to 2007. He died Thursday, October 7, in Paris, at the age of 81 years.
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Journalist, Press boss, program director. But also a man of influence. Etienne Mougeotte, died on Thursday, October 7, in Paris, at the age of 81, learned Le Monde to his entourage, Confirming information from Europe 1 . He will have, during his long career, multiplied the experiences. And having had the pleasure of directing what was at the time the first Radio de France (Europe 1), the first written news magazine (TV 7 days) and especially, for about twenty years, the programs of the first TV channel in Europe (TF1).
The man at the big silhouette encysks the blows without increasing in the arena. It’s a smiling taiseous. “He protects himself, like a sphynx,” said him one of his loved ones. Over his career, he has also been careful, with mixed successes, not to overwhelm his powerful patterns, whether Jean-Luc Lagardère, Francis and Martin Bouygues or Serge Dassault.
“Tell the bottom of the cards”
Fast, big worker and small sleeper, humming the air of time with delectation, Etienne Mougeotte made a career in a field that was not really in the radars of this son of Cheminot, born the 1 March 1940 at La Rochefoucauld (Charente). Graduate of Sciences Po, the young Mougeotte dreamed of doing the ENA, not to trill journalism. It is as Vice President of the UNEF, famous student union, which he will taste the information, in the broad sense. “I saw, behind the scenes, the small and large maneuvers of a big trade union device. And from that day, I thought,” You will never do politics! “Conversely, you have to become Journalist. To tell the bottom of the cards, “he said to the Express in 2004.
After a brief daily experience Paris-Normandie, he entered France Inter in 1967 to cover the six-day war. In March 1968, Europe 1 hiring. But he quickly leaves the Station of François-I rue (he will come back in 1974) for television and the first chain. His first appearances on the antenna date from October 1969 in “First Information”. Under the careful look at Pierre Desgrapes, the almost milf gives a young person to the presentation. But in 1972, it is fired for “persiflage” by a pompidolian power that moderately appreciates the character, a little too leftist in his eyes. It is in Europe 1 that Etienne Mougeotte will bounce again.
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