Paris (AFP)
Radio France is banking on the "proximity" and the news for the 2019-2020 season after a record year of hearings, announced the leaders of public radio on Tuesday at their back-to-school conference.
In this season "post-yellow vests", as the president of the group Sibyle Veil said, France Bleu multiplies its flashes of local info in the morning and messes up its grid with new national programs combining better live and good mood at noon , 2 pm and evening.
France Inter plays the continuity after becoming this year the first radio in France, but opens a few new boxes to hot topics.
On weekdays, at 13:30, Mathieu Vidard leaves his box Sciences for a new emission devoted to the ecological transition. After a test this summer, the former Europe 1 journalist Nadia Daam is being extended for a free Sunday TV show devoted to the intimate, Giulia Fois for a new program on the genre, and Inter welcomes comedians Eric and Quentin for a Saturday time devoted to urban music.
If audiences are at the rendezvous, Radio France is tightening the belt and the atmosphere in the Round House remains marked by a massive first strike before the summer. Sibyle Veil said the negotiations on the savings plan of 60 million euros, which resumed in September, should continue until the beginning of 2020.
Franceinfo, which is also buzzing with audience success, gives pride of place to the environment and the international scene with two new columns. The journalist Frédéric Carbonne arrives on the edge of the south, which he will relocate across France in the run-up to the municipal elections of 2020.
France Culture, a strong progression last season, offers a new show on History at 9:00, presented by Xavier Mauduit, a current affairs debate at 18:20 orchestrated by Emmanuel Laurentin, and new appointments on Sunday devoted to the theater and to the comic strip.
France Musique proposes a new meeting dedicated to the creation on Sunday evening. Mouv "changes almost everything", announced its director, with a new morning, a new hip-hop show at 20H, and an appointment of news extended at noon.
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