After the deprogramming of “questions for a champion”, Samuel Etienne spoke of his financial situation on Twitch.
France Télévisions manages hot files one by one at the end of the season. While that of air conditioning, which vacillates and causes overheating of the Parisian premises of the public audiovisual group, is not yet settled, management has managed to settle some. After the case of the 8 p.m. and the replacement of Anne Sopie-Lapix by Léa Salamé last week, it is the decision to deprogram Questions for a champion During the week and switch the cult game only on weekends at the start of the school year which was announced this week.
And this decision has already made the effect of a small bomb. By abandoning the daily dissemination of Questions for a championwhich has been ensured since 1992, France 3 should provoke frustration a few thousand fans who will no longer find their appointment every end of the day from the next season. The reprogramming of the game already arouses strong criticism. First, those of his host Samuel Etienne, who does not hide his misunderstanding and regrets.
“No longer being able to support my family”
Faced with this change after 37 years of presence during the week on France 3 for the game and and almost ten years for him, the successor of Julien Lepers even made a proposal at France Télévisions: to leave the presentation of the game if it can save the daily. A “Call to the Directorate of France Télévisions” says and repeated again on X at the end of the week, on the eve of the last unpublished daily issue on Friday.
“In view of the impressive mobilization to call for the maintenance of our beautiful daily game, again, separate from me if you wish, but I implore you, let Qpuc To his audience, so faithful, and so numerous! “He begged, putting his own fate in the background. As spotted it TV leisurethe presenter, however, mentioned on July 1 on his Twitch channel, where he is very followed, the financial repercussions of this deprogramming for him.
“I have two children, I have a mortgage like everyone else. I have to have money every month to pay all this,” he told a fan who came to question him on the subject, in the middle of budgetary restrictions affecting the public service. And to continue, more reassuring: “I have confidence in my work capacity, I am a crazy work, so I’m going to work,” he promised.
Samuel Etienne nevertheless admits having “a crazy chance of having Twitch” to complete his income and ensuring his lifestyle despite the loss of his daily programs. An “economic model that [le] Safe, “he said.” What would stress me is not to be able to support my family, but I have this chance that many colleagues do not have with Twitch, “he concludes.