"This is the group's flagship project", as Véronique Morali, the president of the Webedia group explained, in the columns of the JDD . Live is a web channel for young people that brings together the cream of Youtubers and stars from traditional TV. With the program, successive shows every day from 5 p.m. to midnight. Or 50 hours of live broadcast each week on all networks: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok, Dailymotion ... But its launch, Monday, February 3, did not really go as planned ...
Questionable words, technical bugs ... the channel already banned from Twitch
Monday evening, at 6 p.m. and a few, comedian Kevin Razy, who came from Canal + and now heads a two-hour daily program, launched hostilities, surrounded by all the hosts. Then he invited spectators to react live on the networks. This is the very principle of the chain. But quickly everything got complicated.
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While up to 15,000 spectators watched the program simultaneously behind their computer or smartphone screens, technical problems, inappropriate words, jokes a bit questionable… Social networks were inundated, throughout the evening, of catastrophic tweets and comments, written by hundreds of spectators visibly not convinced by the project.
Then, just 4 hours after being launched, the Le Live channel was outright banned from Twitch, the American streaming platform preferred by video game players, and its broadcasting stopped, when the host quoted the "N-word" , that is to say the word "nigger" - "nègre" "in French. A word that some say among us, among friends, without knowing what it really means. In France, and in Kevin's mouth Razy, "nigga" is cool. But in the United States, and especially on the platform, "nigger" is one of the prohibited words. When it is detected, the user is banned, which happened on Monday. Even if obviously, for the presenter, there was no racist connotation behind that.
Critic Press, Webedia Recognizes "Far from Perfect" Launch
And this launch has also been much commented in the press, especially criticized. The Parisian headlined on "the chaotic launch", 20 Minutes considers that "The Live crashes its launch, between technical concerns and questionable jokes", and Le Point gives a layer with "the launch of the web TV turns to the Berezina" . Contacted by Le Parisien , the Webedia group recognizes that the launch is "far from perfect". And to add on social networks: "We had 2, 3 concerns but that those who have never bugged by launching a project of this scope throw the first stone at us!".
Tuesday, from 5 p.m., as expected, Le Live turned on again. Live broadcasts resumed on all platforms except Twitch, almost as if nothing had happened. "Yesterday we launched the Le Live channel. We launched it a bit of a hassle, there were technical problems, the sound was out of step ...", quipped Kevin Razy at the start of his show. "I, the same evening after the show, I was washed, I went to sleep direct. The next day when I woke up, I looked at the messages of my friends, I had the impression that I was dead."
But Le Live is alive and well. On the other hand, all the videos of the first day and of the launch have been removed from the different platforms where they were supposed to be visible in replay. Anyway, Le Live will obviously have time to settle down. Because ultimately it's not like on TV.
>> The launch of the live was also deciphered by Paul Lahcène in the pressing on Europe 1: