In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon tells us about a political and television soap opera with Etienne Girard, head of the company service at L’Express.
Listen to this episode and subscribe to La Loupe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, Google Podcasts, Podcast Addict And Amazon Music.
The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation and writing), Marion Galard (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Credits: C8, CNews, France Inter
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Eric Permont/AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
How to listen to a podcast? Follow the leader.
Xavier Yvon: In a quiet street in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the Paris suburbs, a large building stands out with its windowless ocher facade. Inside, each evening, Cyril Hanouna presents “Touche Pas à Mon Poste” live. From the studio, the broadcast is transformed into a digital signal which travels through the atmosphere in the form of electromagnetic waves, to reach the television sets of the more than two million French people who press the “8” button on their remote control every days, at 7:40 p.m.
For this broadcast, the C8 channel uses a hertzian frequency, a kind of wave highway, which is allocated to it by the State, the same thing for CNews, on channel 16.
But, between the serial slippages of Cyril Hanouna, and the ideological orientation of the news channel, the channels of billionaire Vincent Bolloré find themselves in the crosshairs of the audiovisual policeman and the government. To the point that their frequency authorizations are threatened. At Bolloré, we protest by crying out for censorship.
Will channels 8 and 16 change programs soon? We dive into a politico-television soap opera, with the next presidential election in sight.
For further
PODCAST. How (and why) Cyril Hanouna invested the political field
Hanouna tyranny told from the inside: “Don’t name me, he scares me”
Cyril Hanouna or the tyranny of the child king, by Gérald Bronner
The “unreality TV” of Cyril Hanouna, by Sylvain Fort