Public audiovisual: the massive grouping? | EUROtoday

Is public broadcasting on the daybreak of a brand new period? Since her arrival on the Ministry of Culture in January, Rachida Dati claims to work at “grouping of forces” public audiovisual corporations, particularly France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde (FMM), National Audiovisual Institute (INA) – Arte and TV5 Monde being aside, as a result of one is Franco-German, French-speaking and worldwide for the opposite. Nearly fifty years after the tip of ORTF and the separation of radio and tv, these corporations might quickly discover themselves underneath the identical roof.

According to a number of sources, the Minister of Culture might reveal in May the shape that this rapprochement might take. So far, the situation of a reform modeled on the invoice (PPL) carried by the senator from Val-de-Marne Laurent Lafon (UDI) holds the rope: the textual content, voted by the Upper House on June 13, 2023 , and included on the agenda of the National Assembly on May 23 and 24, actually serves as a ready-made legislative automobile to maneuver in the direction of a vote by the autumn.

It marks the creation of a holding firm made up of 4 subsidiaries, France Télévisions, Radio France, FMM and INA, and with capital held by the State. Called “France Médias”, it could be led by a president appointed “for five years by decree of the President of the Republic, on the proposal of the board of directors, after assent from Arcom [Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique] and after opinion of the competent permanent committees of the National Assembly and the Senate. Since 2013 and the presidency of François Hollande, the power to appoint the bosses of public audiovisual companies has been entirely in the hands of the regulator, as it was until 2009, when Nicolas Sarkozy made it a prerogative of the president. of the Republic.

A rapprochement of entities, for what purpose?

“In order not to let social networks become the dominant source of information, to continue to convey a common imagination in a divided society, a powerful public audiovisual sector is more necessary than ever”defended, on March 24, in La Tribune Sunday, senator Laurent Lafon and the deputy for Loire Quentin Bataillon (Renaissance). For its promoters, France Médias can be higher in a position to withstand competitors and the digital superpowers than if the businesses remained unbiased of one another. “I am betting that, by joining forces, our power will be multiplied”insisted Delphine Ernotte, the CEO of France Télévisions, on April 5, in Le Figaro. The president of the European Broadcasting Union believes that France is an exception on a continent the place the general public radio and tv stations of many nations (United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and so forth.) are united.

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