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This is the end of an era on public service. Evening 3 , emblematic newspaper of France 3 since 1978, a time when the channel was still called FR3, bowed Sunday. And as early as Monday, the program migrates on channel 27 of Franceinfo, in a new form, the 23 hours .
On France 3, this disappearance is not really digested, and some unions of France Televisions decided to strike Monday to protest against this decision which they describe as "fatal". And some politicians also interfered in the debate, like the 82 parliamentarians who wrote to Delphine Ernotte, the president of France Televisions, to tell him what they consider a "heavy mistake".
"The '23 hours' is the heir of Evening 3"
But Evening 3 does not really disappear. The program is migrating to franceinfo on channel 27. The public service news channel, which is launching its fourth season, is creating a new slice of news Monday evening , between 9 pm and midnight. The program will include a newspaper that will look like old evening 3. "The 23 hours is the heir of Evening 3" , confirms the microphone of Europe 1 Alexander Kara, the director of the channel. "It will also be a half-hour diary, in the same format.We will find a newspaper in a rather classic form that will begin at a fixed time, which will be the evening appointment of the public service, and which will end at 23:30 ".
"People who are used to this meeting on France 3 will not be confused because they will find a presenter, formats, columnists, headings, an editorial," he says again.
The return of Patricia Loison
There remains the delicate question of means. On the side of franceinfo, it is ensured that the writing of this 23 hours will work in the same conditions as the previous one, with a team of about fifteen people. Among them, a ghost, the former presenter of the evening 3 Patricia Loison. The journalist is back in business, four years after choosing to put her career in brackets. For Alexandre Kara, "Patricia Loison is a face that represents Franceinfo and the news of France Télévisions, is an extremely rigorous journalist and is interested in the international, the Europe, the economics, politics and culture and societal ".
See now if viewers will switch between France 3 and franceinfo. Because if the hearing of Evening 3 had dropped for several seasons, with a little more than 500,000 viewers last season, at 23 hours, there are only 60,000 people in front of channel 27.