A new season on franceinfo. Emmanuelle Daviet, mediator of the antennas of Radio France has already collected questions and comments from listeners, listeners of franceinfo. It relays them every Saturday on the air and responds to them with an editorial manager from the channel. Today, the director of franceinfo, Jean-Philippe Baille.
Emmanuelle Daviet: We start with this question from a listener
“Could you, from the start of the school year, systematically make a subject on climate change every day? It is essential that each inhabitant of this country and the French speakers who listen to the radio be aware of the seriousness of the subject of climate change.
So what does franceinfo offer its listeners to discuss the climate crisis?
Jean-Philippe Baille: This is the priority of our season and that of all the antennas of Radio France elsewhere. You have certainly noticed that since Monday, since the beginning of our grid, we have focused our priorities around this question which has marked the news this summer. And we started with guests, be it Jean-Marc Jancovici, then Michel Tubiana, who negotiated the Paris agreements. And we have also devoted “The choice of franceInfo” on the subject to highlight all the solutions to be implemented to curb our energy expenditure.
And then, over the weekend, we welcome two committed personalities who will precisely help the listeners to understand what is happening, to provide solutions: the hydrologist and expert, Emma Haziza and the journalist Salomé Saqué, very sensitive or very sensitive to these issues. It is one of our priorities. We will also go to the field to see how things are going since twice a month, Frédéric Carbonne’s 12-14 will go to the field to listen to the French, to see what solutions can be adopted here or there, because there are many initiatives being taken.
Regularly, therefore, we will take stock of our antenna to see how this ecological transition is going on a daily basis. I will add all the same, and this has been on our channel for three years now, that every morning we have “The science ticket” and of course, it also regularly focuses on these questions of ecological transition.
We can also specify that in this new school year, you put sport in the spotlight?
Yes, every Sunday evening with a new duo on the air, Victor Matet and Laurie Delhostal. We are welcoming “Le club info” precisely to bring to life what is going to happen because we have a sporting sequence which is opening up and which is magnificent: between the FIFA World Cup in Qatar and all the questions we can Ask around its organization, the Rugby World Cup here in France, and of course the Paris 2024 Olympics. Every evening from 9 p.m. until midnight, you will find Laurie Delhostal and Victor Matet.
What other editorial proposals do you have on the air this fall?
We wanted to bring great continuity to our grid at franceInfo, 7 days a week, so that listeners could find their way around with the same cursors. We are going to multiply our experts, and I spoke earlier of the “science ticket”, Anne Legal who wears it during the week, is one of our experts and at the weekend, we have other experts who will wear it.
Culture experts too, on Saturday for the cinema and on Sunday for books, who will enlighten our listeners. And since Friday, you have noticed that our morning or our weekend mornings are carried by a new duo Lorrain Sénéchal and Neïla Latrous. There too, to provide the continuity I wanted to tell you about. Of course, we have new things with the arrival of Marie Dupin every morning at 7:26 am, who will embody a personality or an object that is at the heart of current events. Same thing in the evening, with Bérengère Bonte whom we welcome and who will talk to us every evening about the intruder of the news. That is to say, someone who has passed under the radar of the news and who deserves to be put forward.
franceinfo is a global media that is constantly innovating and this is particularly true in this new school year in particular. Are you doing this to reach new audiences?
Yes. Every evening at 6 p.m., Manon Mella will host this Twitch. We inaugurated a first show on Monday evening. It’s a new tone that we want to bring. It’s a freedom both in the exchange, in the dialogue, to connect or reconnect with all those who were able to tell us last year, when we went to the field, again to meet the French , that the traditional media were disconnected or did not speak enough to a certain number of people.
We want to reconnect with these young people because essentially it is young people who will talk about the subjects that interest them. And it is important that franceinfo, with its values, with its experts, with precisely everything that we have put in place for several years, can be on this ground, on this new ground, to discuss, to dialogue with all those who can consider today that we do not talk to them enough.