The CSA began on Tuesday the last round of hearings for the presidency of France Televisions with the planned passages of the candidates given as favorites: the former boss of RTL Christopher Baldelli and the current leader Delphine Ernotte. Christopher Baldelli summed up his project, which focused on program quality, with a question. “If today in France our fellow citizens had to pay for access to public broadcasting, one can wonder how many would be ready to do so? "
To convince the French, and the advisers of the CSA, Christopher Baldelli wants to develop “innovation and creativity” in the fiction offer of public TV, in particular by reducing the share of detective series and American programs.
A "common local digital offer"
The chains must "take risks", especially in the evening. "We have the right to fail, because we do not fully have this diktat of the commercial audience," said Christopher Baldelli, who has already directed France 2.
He regrets the scarcity of striking and exportable programs, such as Ten percent, and thinks that tight management could accelerate their development. If he wants to attract young people, he also thinks of traditional viewers of public TV, with "an ambitious and modern offer of historical fictions and adaptation of our literary heritage".
On the information side, the candidate wishes to launch a “common local digital offer” to France 3 and France Bleu, in collaboration with “local communities and the regional daily press”. To develop the franceinfo channel, he also imagines a real common morning between TV and radio.
Two other candidates
Christopher Baldelli has also committed to sticking to the financial trajectory set by the State, aiming for a balance for 2022 despite the Covid-19 crisis. “I have always led the companies that I have led to positive results,” he stressed.
Besides Delphine Ernotte, two other candidates will defend their project on Tuesday: Pierre-Etienne Pommier, digital adviser of La République en Marche at the National Assembly (LREM) which offers a duet with Catherine Smadja, former of the BBC, and Serge Cimino, delegate SNJ at France Télévisions which had already presented itself in 2015.
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