The music was running at full speed on France info, France Inter or even France Culture instead of the traditional morning shows, while France 2 offered reruns of extracts from Télématin.
Banners also announced the disruption of the antennas of the France 24 and franceinfo news channels and of the latter's website.
The employees of France Télévisions and Radio France, but also of France Médias Monde (France 24, RFI, MCD), Arte and Ina were called to stop work on Tuesday by an inter-union CGT-CFDT-FO-SNJ-SUD-UNSA -CGC-CFTC.
A rally is also planned for noon in Montparnasse in Paris, for a parade towards the National Assembly.
At the origin of the movement, the defense of public broadcasting, with financing and independence threatened, according to the unions and the strikers, by the announced abolition of the license fee in favor of a current budget over several years, promised by the government.
This measure was proposed during the presidential campaign by President Emmanuel Macron, under purchasing power.
Amounting to 138 euros in mainland France and 88 euros overseas, it only concerns households that have a television: the others do not pay it, even if they watch programs on a computer, tablet or smartphone.
This resource has become all the more strategic since the removal of advertising in the evening and then in children's programs on public service channels.
Its abolition will lead to a shortfall of more than 3 billion euros that the State promises to compensate with public broadcasters.
But the protesters believe that the budget for public broadcasting "cannot be decided by the government and subject to the vagaries of the vote on the annual finance laws".
Amounting to 138 euros in mainland France and 88 euros overseas, the audiovisual fee only concerns households that have a television ERIC CABANIS AFP / Archives
"He must have an allocated resource, guaranteeing his economic and political independence as much as possible in terms of information and cultural diversity", according to a union leaflet.
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