“It’s up to us to make our difference heard”, pleads the president of Public Senate

After having managed RTL and France 2, it is in Public Senate that Christopher Baldelli has settled since spring 2021. The new president of the channel 13 of TNT, which she shares with LCP, has already established new meetings at the start of the school year and breathed new life into its antenna: “My project was to make an editorial shift. I wanted a channel that was more accessible, more geared towards the public, less elitist, while keeping meaning, intelligence and difference “, explains on franceinfo Christopher Baldelli, Friday, December 17.

According to him, Public Senate represents “a separate offer” in the 30 TNT channels. “We installed five new shows last September and new signatures. In the last three months, Public Senate has increased by 15% in audience.” Building on this good start, Christopher Baldelli is now heading for the presidential campaign, which will officially open on January 1. “We will invite all the declared candidates. We reinforced the signatures with very good political experts: Thomas Hugues, Elizabeth Martichoux and Mathieu Croissandeau.” It also announces new formats, both digitally and on television. “The offer will be large and multiple on all TV and radio channels. It’s up to us to make our difference heard.”

Christopher Baldelli also announces joint evenings with LCP. The two electoral evenings, the first and second round, will be shared, as will four thematic evenings on the major topics of the presidential election, with a documentary followed by a debate. After a tense period between the two cousin chains, at the time of Emmanuel Kessler’s presidency, relations seem calmer: “We have a very good understanding between the two channels and with Bertrand Delais [le patron de LCP]. Whenever we can, we work together and things are going really well. As for the eternal question on the merger between the two antennas, it is not for me to decide and it is not on the agenda at all. “