Will leave? Won’t leave? This Friday, May 5, our colleagues from Parisian announced that after 36 years of good and loyal service at France Televisions, Catherine Matausch was about to leave the ship. The 63-year-old journalist hosted the “12/13” and the “19/20” the weekend. However, the main interested party, contacted in the process by our colleagues, said to herself “stunned to learn such news through the press”.
For her, her future is clear: “as it stands, I’m taking over the newspaper in June and I haven’t scheduled my departure”. Despite everything, still according to our colleagues, the departure would indeed be recorded on the side of France Televisions and negotiations of its terms are still ongoing between the two parties. A speech that she also held with Télé-Loisirs.
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Caterine Matausch finally at France Télévisions at the start of the school year?
Indeed, she claims to be “fell from the clouds” when she discovered the information, again through the press. “I’m just asking for respect!“she explains by telephone to Tele-Leisure. It was in the early 80s that she joined the regional editions of France 3. Some time later, Henri Sannier spotted her and offered her to join, in 1987, the national editorial staff of La Trois. Since 2004, Catherine Matausch has directed the mid-day and evening editions on weekends.
If, in the end, his departure would no longer be so safe, France 3 would have already reviewed its plans for its emblematic “12/13” And “19/20”. These boxes should become, at the start of the next school year, JTs baptized for the moment “Here 12/13” And “Here 19/20”. In 2021, she also spoke to express her disappointment when she learned that the 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. news were going to disappear to be replaced by 24 regional newspapers. “These newspapers are my entire professional life. I did my job with simplicity, passion, rigor, and a deep respect for viewers. I inevitably felt great sadness and incomprehension. These newspapers are an institution”, she lamented with a heavy heart.
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