Manu Payet did not finish getting up at dawn.
In a press release sent on Wednesday, Virgin Radio announced the renewal of the host at the controls of his morning at the start of the next school year.
Manu Payet will therefore continue to wake up listeners (his show runs from 6 to 10 am), for his greatest pleasure.
"I get up every morning telling myself that I'm going to find those who listen to us, those to whom we tell our lives, with whom we laugh and sometimes with whom we talk about more serious things, about life. , of our lives, ”he explains in this press release.
A season shaken by confinements
Manu Payet took over from Camille Combal last summer. A first season marked by slight drops in audiences, notes Puremédias. “People are no longer where they listened to the radio before! Obviously, it's more complicated, explained the host to the specialized site, referring to the phases of confinement and teleworking. Despite everything, we have a lot of very positive feedback. It touches me a lot, moreover. This confirms that I did well to come back. We have been there to give strength and courage to all those who do, every morning. I think of the baker, the nursing staff, the teacher who teaches his students in Zoom. "
The health crisis has indeed weighed down radio audiences a bit, as the figures from Médiamétrie last January showed.
The second lockdown and the curfew brought down radio listening in November-December 2020, with nearly 2 million listeners lost in one year, a context that favored public stations, including France Inter and France Info, to the detriment of the private sector.
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