2024-07-29 20:16:36
INFORMATION MAY BE FIGURED – The M6 radio station, which lost ground against France Inter, is shaking its key eyes for the beginning of the school year.
There is no Olympic delay for the traditional summer transfer window in the French audio landscape. Monday was marked by the announcement of a major change on the French air force, planned for the start of the school year. Defector from France Télévisions, Thomas Sotto will replace journalist and host Yves Calvi at the helm of the RTL morning show, from 7 am to 9 am Amandine Bégot, in a duo with Yves Calvi at the helm of RTL Matin, retaining his position.
Thomas Sotto will therefore leave the presentation of the show “Télématin” on France 2 to join private radio, after several weeks of behind-the-scenes discussions. The 51-year-old reporter, also a comedian on the 8 p.m. news on France 2 at weekends, will reunite with the RTL team, with whom he worked from 2019 to 2021 to present 18/20. Radio confirms the information presented by Le Figaro was published Monday Friday.
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Faced with an unprecedented decline in audience over several consecutive waves in recent months, the M6 group station hopes to regain its strength by renewing its flagship faces. The second largest radio station in France (total audience 9%), which lost ground to France Inter, wants to win back its audience. To do this, the M6 team, led by David Larramendy from Spring, took matters into their own hands. He has just created the position of director of information at M6 and RTL, assigned to Hervé Béroud, disabled from BFMTV, whose arrival is planned for the fall.
Hard health
Led by Régis Ravanas, RTL achieved the worst end of the season in its history, with an average of 5.04 million listeners between April and the end of June, according to the audience wave published by Mediamétrie on July 10 .A lot from 6.85 million in France Inter. In one year, RTL, represented among others by its morning workers and “Les Grosses Têtes” by Laurent Ruquier, has been written by 243,000 listeners. RTL matin attracts an average of 1.26 million listeners every day. At the same time a year ago, the program attracted 1.46 million listeners.
On the financial side, private radio showed strong health in 2023, with a turnover of 165 euros and a profit growth of 20%, to 41 million.
Pillar of the station on Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), Yves Calvi, at the head of the morning show for ten years, will be on RTL. Him « Currently working on a new project for the start of the school year »explain group M6. « I thank Yves Calvi for these ten years spent presenting the morning show, an amazing longevity for a program that attracts millions of listeners every day. »underlines Régis Ravanas.
The transfer window is in full swing
For its part, “Télématin” has also entered into uncertainty. After a season, journalist Marie Portolano decided a few days ago to leave the show. At the same time, the channel announced its replacement by Flavie Flament at the beginning of the school year. It remains to be seen which face will be replaced at short notice Thomas Sotto, who presented the France 2 morning show for three years. His reputation was tarnished by an investigation published in early July by The Week Telerama on his behavior behind the scenes of Deux.
The arrival of Thomas Sotto on RTL is the latest step in the waltz of presenters which has marked radio and television channels in recent weeks. After sixteen years on RTL, Alba Ventura will join the TF1 team and its morning show “Hello! », rival of “Télématin” at the beginning of the school year. The bosses of RTL have also hired Faustine Bollaert for a new daily meeting at 8 pm, called “Heroes”.
« In the highly competitive radio world, RTL has little choice but to shake up its schedule and send out renewed signals so as not to allow listeners to get bored any more.Analysis of a good connoisseur of the media world. Especially since the portion of the pie to be shared has decreased. »
As for the main station, France Inter, the surprising return of Patrick Cohen to the morning show from 7 am to 10 am, which was the presenter from 2010 to 2017, is still playing all the conversations. Introduced by The Parisian , the choice to appoint a famous editor from the show “C à Vous” on France 5 to replace Yaël Goosz, head of the channel’s political department, was not accepted internally. To show his dissatisfaction, the editorial staff of La Maison Ronde filed a bold complaint a few days ago against the director of France Inter, Adèle Van Reeth.
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