The local channel 20 minutes TV takes over from IDF1 in Ile-de-France

Rémi Jacob, with AFP 09:32, May 31, 2023

The free newspaper 20 minutes (controlled by Rossel and Ouest France) launched Tuesday its television channel dedicated to the Ile-de-France, which succeeds the channel IDF1 and intends to seduce young urban workers by mixing local information and entertainment.

A "tour of the news in six minutes"

The 20-minute TV programmes take channel 32 of the DTT in the Paris region, occupied since 2008 by IDF1, partially sold last year by the JLA group to the Belgian group Rossel ("La voix du Nord", "Le courrier picard", etc.). Among these programs is "Salut l'Ile-de-France", a daily news program presented by Olivier Quéméner, who already officiated on IDF1, just like Jacky, at the helm every week of the music magazine "Jacky aux platines".

A "six-minute news tour" will be offered daily "with journalists from 20 Minutes TV and 20 Minutes", while the newspaper's sports specialists will receive an athlete every Friday at 16pm in the show "Les croisés, tu connais".

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An operation validated by Arcom

The channel is published by the company Ensemble TV, which Rossel took control of last year, an operation validated by Arcom, the regulator of audiovisual media. The capital of Ensemble TV is thus held 51% by Rossel France Investissement, 34% by JLA (the group of producer Jean-Luc Azoulay, at the initiative of IDF1) and 15% by 20 minutes. With 20 minutes TV, the Rossel group extends its influence in the local TV community, where it has already launched Wéo Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Wéo Picardie, for La Voix du Nord, and created, in partnership with other regional daily press groups, the company Territoires TV.

As a member of this society, 20 Minutes TV will be able to rely on programs designed for the Territoires TV network to feed its schedule, such as the society and debate magazine "Extra local".

Enough to complete the "two fresh hours" of content promised every day in addition to series and documentaries planned in the evening. Broadcast online on 20minutes.tv, the channel will also focus on interactivity with "telenauts" who pass "fluidly" from one screen to another.

It will be able to rely on the one million readers in the Paris region claimed every day by the paper edition, as well as on the 3.3 million Ile-de-France residents visiting its website each month.