INTERVIEW
What will Europe 1 listeners hear next season on our antenna? At the end of this 2019-2020 season, Europe 1 is already preparing its grid for the next season, between maintaining programs already installed and the arrival of new recruits. Guest Thursday of Philippe Vandel, in Culture Media , Constance Benqué, president of Lagardère News and of Europe 1 described her objectives, and detailed the main changes.
During the 2020-2021 season, "we will continue installing the grid", she announced, estimating that this year, "we have met expectations". Europe 1 particularly wants to further "upgrade the ranges of information, particularly those of the morning, with enriched newspapers, longer, analysis".
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Pillars of the return antenna
Europe 1 will remain faithful to its fundamentals, she says, with "an important choice for culture, intelligence, knowledge, but also music, entertainment". The humor will of course always be present, with Anne Roumanoff and Nicolas Canteloup. Christophe Hondelatte, Emilie Mazoyer, Olivier Delacroix, will also always be there at the start of the school year.
Stéphane Bern in duet with Matthieu Noël
If Constance Benqué reaffirms her desire to keep in-house talent and to "hatch" it, the president of Lagardère News also returned to the main novelties, with a few "very talented" recruits. Stéphane Bern will thus return to the start of the new school year to launch a new daily history program, which he will present in the company of Matthieu Noël, currently head of L'Équipée sauvage . Promising "a duet with laughter, impertinence, surprises", Constance Benqué believes that this program responds to "the concern to cultivate, cheerful knowledge, and share history together".
A chronicle of Eric Dupond-Moretti in the morning
Another arrival, that of the media lawyer Eric Dupont-Moretti, who will hold a column every morning from Monday to Friday, at 7:50 am, in the morning of Matthieu Belliard, and during which he will discuss a topical subject. "His free spirit will be expressed in the morning, with this tone and the eloquence that we know him", rejoices Constance Benqué.
Julian Bugier takes the lead on 18-20
Finally, the 18-20 hours segment also changes, with the arrival of Julian Bugier, who succeeds Nathalie Lévy. Already on the air during the summers of 2013 and 2014, the journalist, who also officiates as a joker for the France 2 news program, "fits in with the spirit of Europe 1", says Constance Benqué, with "his youth, his talent, his commitment, and his affinities especially for ecology and the transformation of the economy ".