Paris (AFP)
Both with increased audiences, the radio and the news channel Franceinfo intend to strengthen their collaboration this year, especially for municipal, a course marked by a new dressing for their return Monday.
For the young news channel of channel 27, this fourth season is an opportunity to "strengthen the grid, to make it more consistent and to establish our maturity," commented AFP director Alexandre Kara.
Exit the slogan of the launch "Two points open the info", place to "Franceinfo ... and everything is clearer".
The dressing of the chain born from the alliance between France Televisions, Radio France, France Media World and the INA, has also been redesigned to be "more serious, less pop", explains Alexandre Kara.
After a slow start, she seems to have found her cruising speed with a share of audience oscillating between 0.5 and 0.6% in recent months, and a morning arrival several times on the 3rd or 2nd place of the podium this summer.
If the morning (6:30 to 9:30, co-presented this season by Samuel Etienne and Johanna Ghiglia) remains a priority, the channel strengthens the mid-day (9:30 to 13:00) with the arrival of Louis Laforge for more live and a new slice 13:00 -17h00 presented by Sophie Le Saint (ex-Télématin).
The great novelty will be from 21:00 to midnight with "Franceinfo Soir" which takes "more than 80% of the team of Evening 3 of France 3", including the journalist Patricia Loison who coanimate with Nathanael de Rincquesen (Télématin) and Céline Bosquet .
Alexandre Kara wants to make it "a marker of the audiovisual landscape". In addition to the 11:00 pm newscast, the segment includes an interview and a daily thematic magazine: sports on Mondays, Europe on Tuesdays, fake news on Thursdays or Sunday's economy, in collaboration with Franceinfo radio.
- Environment and fact-checking -
With the radio, "we will continue to multiply the joint operations, including a first event for the 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and strengthen our ties on the editorial," he says.
A new joint rendez-vous arrives Sunday in the perspective of municipal, the "8:30 Franceinfo", a political interview conducted by Jean-Jerome Bertolus and Matteu Maestracci.
"Most major media have their political meeting on Sunday, ours will be the first and open the day," said Vincent Giret, director of radio.
On the radio side, the new Franceinfo grid will give pride of place to the environment, to fact-checking and to proximity with many off-the-shelf programs, he explains to AFP.
After hearings at the highest this season (8.1% in April-June, 8.6% in January-March ...), the radio plans some changes in September with the arrival of the journalist Frédéric Carbonne (previously the evening) on the slice 12: 00-14: 00, second peak of hearing after the morning, replacing Ersin Leibowitch.
Frédéric Carbonne will relocate his show in the perspective of municipal by settling in a public transport bus of the city visited, with a first stop expected in Grenoble in late September for this original initiative.
Marc Fauvelle will begin his second season in the morning, with as novelty a daily environment column, "the green ticket" presented by Anne-Laure Barral.
There will also be more international with the column "The world is ours" by Lucas Menget and Olivia Leray (formerly RTL) will succeed Jean-Mathieu Pernin, party for RTL, to the social networks column.
The 5:00 to 7:00 will now be presented by a duo, Xavier Monferran joining Lucie Barbarin: "we wanted to edit the slice to make it more warm and friendly and with more direct," said Vincent Giret.
Another priority for radio, fact checking, with the creation of a "disinformation cell" led by the journalist Antoine Krempf, subject specialist at Franceinfo. He will be supported by six students from the CFJ School of Journalism, who are responsible for monitoring social networks.
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