{"id":543837,"date":"2026-07-16T05:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:19:16","slug":"far-right-wants-to-gut-public-media-france-tv-boss-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543837\/","title":{"rendered":"Far right wants to gut public media, France TV boss says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn populist regimes, freedom [of the press] is a threat. So they try to get hold of public services in different ways. In Italy, they appoint managers [&#8230;] In the Czech Republic, they cut funding,\u201d said Ernotte, referring to allegations of political interference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/giorgia-meloni-italian-state-broadcaster-rai-press-freedom-journalists-on-strike-public-media\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at Italian state broadcaster RAI<\/a> and Prague\u2019s effort <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/czech-media-overhaul-eu-backlash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to scrap public broadcasting license fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But while speaking to POLITICO from a pristine, all-glass meeting room overlooking the Seine at her network\u2019s headquarters, Ernotte said her focus is on positioning France TV for future success regardless of who occupies the Elys\u00e9e Palace when President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s term expires next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy job isn\u2019t political. It\u2019s to get this independent firm up and running while respecting all political views, from the far right to the far left,\u201d said Ernotte.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran telecommunications executive took the reins of France TV in 2015, turning the state-controlled broadcaster into a multi-platform behemoth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francetelevisions.fr\/groupe\/notre-actualite\/record-historique-toutes-plateformes-confondues-pour-francetv-58108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">boasting<\/a> 45 million monthly unique visitors across television and streaming. The media giant has a good track record of developing hits like \u201cDix pour cent\u201d (known as \u201cCall My Agent\u201d in English), and Ernotte boasts that its legacy evening news broadcast is the most trusted of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>But France TV is locked in an increasingly difficult fight for eyeballs with both private legacy media companies and a new generation of streamers.<\/p>\n<p>And, like many of its audiovisual peers, France TV has struggled to keep its finances in check while navigating a rapidly changing media landscape. A report by France\u2019s top public auditors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccomptes.fr\/fr\/publications\/france-televisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last year<\/a> said the company\u2019s economic model was \u201cunsustainable in the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn populist regimes, freedom [of the press] is a threat. So they try to get hold of public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[239167,4401,1767,99,146,65743,2226,85,4427,46,151583,4178,2935,411,205595],"class_list":["post-543837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-audiovisual","tag-companies","tag-competition","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-entertainment","tag-far-right","tag-france","tag-il","tag-intelligence","tag-israel","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-media","tag-platforms","tag-tv","tag-vincent-bollore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}