Paris (AFP)
In 2019, the referrals to the CSA and the number of cases investigated by its teams increased compared to the year before but the number of its interventions remained however limited, underlines the regulator of radio and TV, in his annual report released Wednesday.
The CSA does not specify the number of referrals in its report but Télérama had indicated at the beginning of the year that they were more than 70,000 against 30,000 in 2018.
In recent months, the CSA has decided not to publish the number of referrals.
According to the report, in 2019, 86 files were examined: 78 concerned television channels and 8 related to the radio. 64 were news and 22 other programs, including entertainment.
The CSA intervened 13 times for sequences constituting breaches (against 14 interventions in 2018, and 10 in 2017).
Out of these 13 interventions, 10 concerned information programs (including three warnings and three formal notices) and 3 concerned program or entertainment programs (including one warning and sanction).
BFMTV received a formal notice for the "repeated dissemination, during the media coverage of the attacks in the municipalities of Carcassonne and Trèbes on March 23, 2018, of erroneous information relating to the date of the author's naturalization of these acts, which could suggest that it had been when it was the subject of a registration in the file of persons wanted for risk of threat to the security of the State, "recalls the CSA.
NRJ12 received another for having broadcast "a program devoted to an ongoing procedure before the courts".
Finally, France Télévisions had been put in default after the broadcast in France 3 news of a retouched photograph, where the slogan of a protester yellow vest "Macron clears" had been changed so that we only see " Macron ".
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