Caledonia tv threatened with closure | EUROtoday

The announcement on Wednesday March 12 by the northern province of New Caledonia of a cup of 75 % of its grants aroused the amazement of the 35 members of the Caledonia crew. This tv channel, created on the initiative of the independence neighborhood on the finish of 2013, had discovered its place within the media panorama, with a share of viewers round 5 %. Its closure introduced by the top of April, for lack of recent funding, would signal the disappearance of a brand new media, after that of the paper publishing of the each day The New Caledonian in 2023.

Offering info slices, cultural magazines and a gap of its contents on the South Pacific, Caledonia proposed an authentic positioning, with the assure of independence of the editorial line inscribed in its statutes. Its programmed finish is available in a context of main financial disaster, attributable to the rebel of May 13, 2024. The drying up of tax revenues imposes drastic cuts within the budgets of the communities and establishments of the territory, to which don’t escape the overwhelming majority of the media which rely on public interventions (subsidies, institutional ads).

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