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Acquisition of BFMTV and RMC: “We will have to count on Rodolphe Saadé in the years to come”
Alexis Lévrier (media historian and lecturer at the University of Reims) comments on the announcement of the acquisition of BFMTV and RMC from the Altice France group, by the CMA CGM group, owned by billionaire Rodolphe Saadé.
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Alexis Lévrier, media historian and lecturer at the University of Reims, returns on Wednesday April 10 in the Franceinfo Talk on the takeover of BFMTV and RMC by the shipowner Rodolphe Saadé.
“We knew that Rodolphe Saadé had designs on the audiovisual media, but we didn’t know that it would happen so quickly!”underlines Wednesday April 10 in the Franceinfo Talk Alexis Lévrier, media historian and lecturer at the University of Reims, after the takeover of BFMTV and RMC by billionaire Rodolphe Saadé.
“Marc-Olivier Fogiel, the boss of BFM, kept saying that the sale of Altice was not at all on the agenda and that Patrick Drahi, the owner of Altice, still had the intention to get involved in the media.”
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“But we could clearly seecontinues Alexis Lévrier, that there was also a lack of direction within BFM, whose audiences were declining in the face of CNews, and which was having difficulty preserving its historic editorial identity which tended to also imitate CNews a little, which was right on its heels, even behind it. sometimes exceeded. So there was a crisis, and Rodolphe Saadé is now one of those actors who we know will have to be reckoned with in the years to come.”
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