Question 12128 — audiovisual and communication

Summary

Mrs. Danièle Obono alerts the Minister of Overseas Affairs to the situation of the France Ô channel, the overseas channel of the France Télévisions group which is set to disappear. As part of 190 million euros in public broadcasting savings decided by the State, France Télévisions will have to reduce its spending by 160 million euros, or 6% of its budget in 2018. This will involve the announced disappearance of France 4 on TNT for be broadcast only on the internet but also by the end of France Ô, the overseas channel by 2020 and therefore staff reductions. On April 8, 2017, the President of the Republic declared: “France Ô will be maintained, I reassure you, there will be no deletion of France Ô. I will have objectives from the start of the five-year term for public broadcasting, which will be demanding and preserve its independence. I said, I think he there is a multiplication of channels which sometimes is not justified. But France Ô has a program and has a full and complete justification, I have already expressed myself on the subject to say that I very much wanted to consolidate its place in the French audiovisual landscape, because it precisely reflects this diversity and the issues that I mentioned just now. In a little over a year, the discourse has changed and France Ô has become “a channel ghetto where overseas people look at each other” according to the office of the Minister of Culture. This decision to close was taken without the necessary consultation with the France Ô inter-union association and the “Sauvons France Ô” collective, despite meetings with the Minister of Culture in particular. The fate of the chain is well and truly sealed, which would result in the closure of around a hundred positions. This closure is a real danger for television pluralism and does not take into account the specificities of overseas territories in the three oceans (around 3 million inhabitants) and the exact role of France Ô in France with the 2 million overseas residents living there. This is why she asks him to specify the upcoming schedule for France Ô, and also the conditions for reclassifying jobs on the channel.

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