Two Senators Les Républicains also wish to create a new independent authority responsible for guaranteeing the financing of public audiovisual, while Emmanuel Macron is preparing to remove the fee.
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Will the Senate shake up or facilitate the life of Emmanuel Macron? This is the question that arises after the publication of explosive conclusions made after a joint mission on the financing of public audiovisual led by two Senators Les Républicains, Roger Karoutchi under the finance committee, and Jean-Raymond Hugonet, for the Culture Commission. “We were unpleasantly surprised by the announcement of the abolition of the royalty, which we are not fans, in the middle of the presidential campaign and without consideration,” said Roger Karoutchi, Wednesday, June 8. The objective of the two senators is to introduce reform tracks and solutions into the debate in order to guarantee financing of public audiovisual while the government should suppress the fee in July during a text on the purchasing power.
The most symbolic measure, the merger of France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde (which brings together RFI and France 24) and INA. “It is time to end a French exception. The idea is not to reduce, but to group together to pool the means and have a reserve of skills,” justified Jean-Raymond Hugonet, for which the synergies put in Until then by the different entities work badly. “It took four years to have municipal mornings between France Bleu and France 3. and Franceinfo still has no single writing,” he listed. The senators also offer “the creation of a” newsroom “[writing]” which would bring together all journalists, international, national and local, in order to remove “duplicates”. “The economic and political journalists of France Télévisions and Radio France could work together,” continued Jean-Raymond Hugonet. France 3 and France Bleu would be gathered under a single banner, “France Media Regions”, an entity with which local authorities could be associated.
“The merger has been in the air for a while. We can see that a holding company [as proposed in the previous five -year term by the former Minister of Culture Franck Riester] would only add a bureaucratic structure”, In corroborated Roger Karoutchi, who aims as an term 2025, the end of the mandate of the boss of France Télévisions, Delphine Ernotte. Senators are careful not to estimate the number of jobs that would make the costs of the rapprochement, and pay the amount of the savings made at 10 %, a percentage delivered by the channel patterns, according to Mr. Karoutchi.
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