Employees of France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde or even INA are called upon to mobilize on Tuesday to defend the method of financing their companies. Beyond that, it is the possible merger of these entities which is feared.
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What future for public audiovisual? Since Emmanuel Macron has announced the abolition of the royalty during the presidential campaign, employees in the sector fear the worst for France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde (which brings together France 24, RFI and Monte Carlo Doualiya) or National Audiovisual Institute (INA).
An intersyndical call to the strike (CGT, CFDT, FO, SNJ, South and UNSA) and a demonstration in Paris which is due to connect, Tuesday, June 28, from noon, Place du 18-juin-1940 at L ‘National Assembly, prove the magnitude of the concern.
In fact, the countdown has started. The government hopes to vote for the end of the royalty as part of the law on purchasing power, which must be presented in the Council of Ministers on July 6. If he does not manage to take this stage, the royalty will be maintained. The housing tax to which it is backed up being deleted, it will then have to imagine a new means of collection.
The spectrum of a fusion
Beyond the question of financing, however, it is the spectrum of a merger of Radio France, France Télévisions and France Médias Monde with, in the end, drastic economies and a reduction in pluralism, which makes The effect of a scarecrow. The Senate broke a taboo by making this rapprochement the flagship of a report published on June 8.
More worrying for public audiovisual, the reaction of Rima Abdul-Malak, on June 21 on France Inter: “Everything will be struggling in Parliament,” said the Minister of Culture, far from spreading the tracks of most radical reflection. For public audiovisual companies, time is running out. The budgetary trajectories decided in 2018 mature at the end of the year. If the Government obtains in the National Assembly the abolition of the royalty, it must quickly decide whether or not to merge.
According to our information, the executive is considering registering new public audiovisual budgets in the public finance programming law. This solemn text, which must be voted in the fall, would give a form of guarantee on public TV and radio, worried to see Bercy cut their food if necessary, or the government to blackmail In the budget in case of dissatisfaction on the editorial line. Another tool supposed to reassure, the creation of a German commission, which would assess the budget of public audiovisual according to the allocated missions. Again, the government would take up one of the proposals of the Les Républicains Senators (LR).
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