This close collaborator of Hervé Bourges, founder of the Consulting Cabinet IMCA, had been expected in 2015 to direct France Télévisions.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
Pascal Josèphe, Director of antennas of several private or public channels and unhappy candidate for the presidency of France Télévisions, died at the age of 68 following a “lightning disease”, announced his family to the ‘Agency France-Presse (AFP) Sunday November 20.
Graduated from the Higher School of Journalism (ESJ) of Lille and the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Strasbourg, Pascal Joseph had started his career at the town hall of Lille, before joining Hervé Bourges in RFI Then at TF1. He was successively director of the branches of several private and public channels (TF1, La Five, France 2 and France 3) and one of the officials of the Carat media agency. He had also founded his Consulting Consulting IMCA (International Media Consultants Associés) in 1994, then bought by the Cabinet NPA.
“A lord of television”
“During his career he contributed to the launch of dozens of emblematic programs:” Right of response “,” Taratata “,” Le Cercle de Midnuit “,” Froufrou “,” Bas les Masks “,” Geopolis “, or the series institted,” said the France Télévisions group in a press release, evoking “its deeply humanist vision of television, never opposing the audience and the requirement in the vision of the programs”.
In April 2015, when the CSA had to choose a new leader for France Télévisions, Delphine Ernotte had barely won over Pascal Josephus, after two successive votes which had not made it possible to decide between them. The latter praised “the memory of a lord of public television who had made it his passion”.
More recently, Pascal Josèphe had invested in the Plumm.TV project, a platform devoted to Mediterranean culture, with Rachid Arhab, former journalist from France 2.