2023-09-27 15:19:00
Un year following the abolition of the license fee, Delphine Ernotte, the CEO of France Télévisions, has reason to be satisfied. The latest decisions within the government on the envelope granted to the parent company of France 2 as part of the budget are favorable to the group she chairs. For Delphine Ernotte, it is both a mark of confidence and an incentive to work even more on digital, youth, proximity and information projects.
After years of dieting and cost reduction, France Télévisions will benefit, like other public broadcasting companies (Radio France, France Médias Monde, Arte France, the National Audiovisual Institute and TV5 Monde), from an increasing budget over the next five years (2024-2028).
The finance bill proposes to allocate to the sector, in 2024, a VAT fraction of 4.025 billion euros, or 228 million euros (+ 6%) more than 2023. In detail, France Télévisions recovers 137 million euros more (i.e. a total of 2.57 billion), Radio France 93 million (668 million in total), France Médias Monde 19 million (304 million), Arte France 9 million (294 million), INA 14 million (108 million) and TV5 Monde 3 million (83 million). The increase in public broadcasting resources is more significant in 2024, the year of the Olympic Games, with the allocation reaching 4.26 billion euros in 2028, compared to 3.8 billion in 2023.
For the Ministry of Culture, it is regarding compensating for inflation and supporting these societies in their transformation. “This budget demonstrates the ambition we have for public broadcasting […]. I would like to remind you that over the past six years, it has undertaken several profound transformations, made 190 million euros in savings, while affirming its public service missions and developing audiences”, would like to remind the current tenant of the street from Valois, Rima Abdul Malak.
Radio France stations attract 16 million listeners every day, while 82% of French people watch France Télévisions programs every week on all screens combined. France Médias Monde, parent company of France 24 and RFI, reaches 260 million people around the world every week.
Extra means conditioned on objectives
Contracts of objectives and means (COM) linking public audiovisual companies to the State will be finalized in the coming weeks. The new thing is that they will be spread over five years instead of three in order to gain visibility and stability. “It is a question of amplifying the dynamic of transformation of the sector around a few major axes in order to strengthen the local offer […], deploy a strong digital strategy, particularly among young people, and consolidate the status of audiovisual media as a reference in terms of information, with its quality, reliability, pluralism and impartiality. This is a crucial issue in a context of increased disinformation and manipulation with foreign interference,” considers Rima Abdul Malak.
New in this trajectory, the State provides, for the first time, an additional envelope for the realization of these transformation projects. The Ministry of Culture wants to show that it will now exercise even more active supervision. Among the projects underway, France Télévisions and Radio Bleu are working to bring together their local networks to unite the forces of France 3 and France Bleu, which launched the “Ici” brand.
The newspaper “Ici 19/20” is already a hit, leading in audiences several times in recent days once morest TF1 and France 2 with more than 2.5 million viewers. For young people, France Télévisions has created a news program for 12-18 year olds called “What is the news?” » and accessible on social networks.
1695869749
#increasing #budget #public #broadcasting #breathes #sigh #relief
