Paris (AFP)
The future holding that will oversee the various public broadcasting groups will not be responsible for their editorial line that will remain the prerogative of each company, said Wednesday Franceinfo Minister of Culture Franck Riester.
The minister detailed the public part of the future audiovisual reform, which should be presented mid-November in the Council of Ministers, and provides for the creation of France Media, a company that will hold 100% of the shares of France Televisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde (which oversees RFI and France 24) and Ina (National Audiovisual Institute).
"These are the companies that will keep the editorial line, who will decide on programming, and the directors and general managers of these companies will be the editors, as today," he said.
France Médias will be a "light" structure, in charge of "the strategy, the organization, the coherence, and the contents will remain in the organizations" he continued.
The minister also assured that the decrease in the audiovisual fee (one euro less per household) would result in "no change" on the financing of public broadcasting.
"A financial trajectory has been requested, efforts are requested from all administrations, this effort is planned until 2022 and seems sustainable," he said, explaining that the decline in the fee had been decided because the collection was greater than the amount foreseen in the public broadcasting budgets.
Assuring that there would be "no additional effort for Radio France", he said that the fee could also be "adapted in the other direction" to stick to the planned financial trajectory: "we want to give the visibility in the public broadcasting ".
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