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Guest at 8:30 a.m., Jean-Marc Dumontet stressed that French audiovisual is “a strong audiovisual”, but which must “evolve, because everything is evolving”.
“I consider that the royalty [audiovisuelle]it’s a Maginot line”, says Saturday May 7 on franceinfo Jean-Marc Dumontet, producer of shows and close to Emmanuel Macron. He specifies that, according to him, the fee of 138 euros per year “does not constitute all revenue” public broadcasting. Emmanuel Macron, who wants to abolish the license fee, has proposed setting up a multi-annual budget to finance public broadcasting, in order to guarantee its independence. According to Jean-Marc Dumontet on “3.8 billion” euros in revenue, “there are 3.2 billion which come from the royalty, and 600 million under the compensation” voted by Parliament.
“If Marine Le Pen had come to power, there would be no more public broadcasting, royalty or no royalty”he says, adding that what matters today is “the political will to have a strong public audiovisual sector”.
Today, “we have a strong public audiovisual system that works”but who must “evolve, because everything evolves”. According to Jean-Marc Dumontet, “everything depends on a strong political will”. He ensures that the President of the Republic is attached to the “pluralism”to the “defending quality information”and there is a question “of sovereignty and influence for our country”. “In the name of that, we need a strong public audiovisual sector”he concludes.