Paris (AFP)
France Télévisions' overseas portal, which should help offset the closure of the France Ô ultramarine channel, will be called "Outre-mer La 1ère", and will be launched on March 31, the public television group announced on Tuesday. .
This online portal will be launched a few months before the closure of France Ô, scheduled for August 9 by decision of the government and as part of a savings plan for the public audiovisual group.
"Overseas The 1st" aims to "be the daily link between the Overseas and the public of France, and will allow the sharing of overseas values to meet contemporary challenges", underlined Delphine Ernotte, during a visit to Reunion, according to a press release from France Télévisions.
It will be a "digital offer of three oceans and proximity, interactive and multi-format", she said without further details on the content that will be offered. This portal should in particular bring together programs from the channels and radio of the network "La 1ère" (ex-RFO), the overseas branch of France Télévisions.
The launch of this portal will be "combined with the strengthening of the linear offer of overseas programs on all the channels of the France Televisions group", recalled Delphine Ernotte.
It is one of the 25 commitments made by France Télévisions in July 2019 in a "visibility pact", which aims to "sustainably guarantee the presence of the overseas territories at the center of the public audiovisual offer", at following the disappearance of the overseas channel of DTT.
The pact also includes quantified targets for progress in taking the overseas territories into account in the group's programs, the creation of a daily magazine on one of the France Télévisions channels, the doubling of the budget devoted to local documentary production, or the appearance of Overseas in the weather of one of the chains.
The progress of the work must be presented on February 24 to the monitoring committee of the pact. An organization which includes parliamentarians, representatives of the State, producers of TV programs, but also Miriama Bono, director of the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands, or the actor Jacques Martial, president of the ACTe memorial on slavery.
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