Four candidates for the presidency of France Télévisions, including the outgoing Delphine Ernotte Cunci, selected for the Arcom auditions

The audiovisual regulator will be responsible for deciding the candidates “no later than May 22”, for a job taking in August.

Four candidates for the presidency of France Télévisions were selected on Wednesday April 30, to be interviewed on May 12 and 13 by the audiovisual regulator, announced the authority for the regulation of audiovisual and digital communication (Arcom). The latter will deliver the result of her vote “No later than May 22”, For an entry into office in August, she said.

Delphine Ernotte Cunci, in the running for a third term, will be heard on May 12 at 2 p.m., followed by Frédérique Dumas, producer and ex-deputy out of ban with Macronie, at 4:30 p.m. The next day, Irène Grenet, former deputy director general of Francetv advertising, will be auditioned at 8:30 am, then will come the turn of Jean-Philippe Lefèvre, ex-director of the Public Senate branch, at 11 am. The candidacy of Serge Cimino, journalist in the public group and SNJ union delegate, was not deemed admissible by Arch, a decision that the interested party decided to challenge.

During their hearing, the contenders will have to present their strategy and then exchange with the college on this subject. Then, a closed -door discussion will take place, to tackle any sensitive or litigious subjects more freely. Only the first parts of the four hearings will be made public on May 13, at their end, to avoid any inequality between candidates.

This process is held as the public audiovisual sector could be upset in the event of the birth of a common holding company, a project supported by the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, but criticized by the left. Under the authority of a president, the holding company, France Media, would oversee four subsidiaries (France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde, National Audiovisual Institute). However, examining the bill in this sense to the National Assembly was postponed Sine Die due to a very busy parliamentary program.