Already engaged in rapprochements – between France 3 and France Bleu, but also via Franceinfo -, France Télévisions and Radio France could be united by “a unique strategic plan” on information and the proximity offer, offer their Managers.
by Aude Dassonville
Difficult to claim that the common projects loaned to Delphine Ernotte and Sibyle Veil, respectively presidents of France Télévisions and Radio France, are absolute secrecy. A document co -signed by the two leaders, established “during a seminar dedicated to information and local offer” dated January 17 and that MO12345lemonde was able to consult, gives them a new reality. This time, it is a question of registering the rapprochement of France 3 and France Bleu, but also that of the editors of the Global Franceinfo media, in the contracts of objectives of means (COM).
Currently being negotiated with the supervision, these roadmaps set the course of public audiovisual companies for the next five years – instead of three in the past, as desired by the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak. Titled “towards a conquering and gathered public audiovisual offer”, the document offers “a unique strategic plan” to the two companies, “which could be integrated into the COMs 2024-2028 around the” France 3/Franceinfo “France 3/Franceinfo axes. It would be unheard of, after two significant innovations brought by Roselyne Bachelot: not only had the former Minister of Culture made sure that the dates of execution of COMs (in fact, simple endorsements for the 2020-2022 ) are identical for all public audiovisual companies, but they included “common objectives”-a first.
“Trum-l’oeil project”
The SNJ union sections of the two groups did not take long, Friday, February 10, to “denounce a project in trompe-l’oeil, fed by political obsessions and managerial incantations”. For Matthieu Darriet, co-secretary of the SNJ on Radio France, this commitment to ever closer cooperation in terms of information, “it is a bomb. In fact, our leaders launch the merger.” “They make the holding company Without the holding company “, confirms Serge Cimino, SNJ union delegate to France Télévisions, in reference to the project carried out by Franck Riester, then Minister of Culture, interrupted due to confinement.
Although France 3 and France Bleu have already had to face strong internal oppositions to offer common mornings and a common website baptized “here, by France Bleu and France 3”, the two leaders would undertake that the Regional antennas are now implementing “an editorial project common at five years” on radio and television. France 3 with twenty-four regional and France Bleu locations of 44 local, a harmonization of structures would lead to “unique territorial directions” and teams brought together under one roof, while “versatility” would be developed.
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