INTERVIEW
Ten years ago, when M6 decided to launch its own television news, at 12:45 and 19:45, almost nobody had bet on the success of such a bet. A decade later, the two info appointments of the sixth channel are well established, and incarnated by Xavier de Moulins, weekdays, and Nathalie Renoux the weekend. With, it is the hallmark, technological innovations clearly visible on the screen. "We try to adapt to technological innovations, we have to be in our time," explains Nathalie Renoux, when her colleague is more cautious: "The effects 'wow', we are also suspicious. the info and the comfort of the people watching us ... we do not want to play with technology ", says Xavier de Moulins.
"Human relationships"
"What is interesting in all this, the keyword that makes today it works and that more and more people are following you is the pedagogy and proximity," says the former Canal +. "And that's things that are not technological, things that are important in human relationships and in what we can offer to people who look at us, to dissect information like that every day. information from a consistent point of view. "
Still, the 12:45 and 19:45 have often innovated, with the standing presentation, large screens behind presenters, duplexes achieved through teleportation ..., All this has not left the competition indifferent. "(Our competitors) present standing, and then there is not only that," said Nathalie Renoux. "We have a journalist come in from the beginning on the set for a very pedagogical column called" Explain us. "And if you look a little elsewhere, you find it again. ours, "says the journalist.