The “TV Magazine” supplement, which belongs to the Le Figaro group, will cease its activity at the end of 2022

You won’t find anymore TVMagazine with your weekend diary. The title will cease its activity at the end of 2022, due to the rupture of the contracts concluded between its owner, Le Figaro, and the regional press titles which ensured its distribution, confirmed the general manager of the group to AFP, Saturday October 15. “At the end of the year, we will stop publishing the TVMagazine as we knew it, as a supplement to regional dailies”said Marc Feuillée, who had earlier addressed the 14 employees of the title in an internal letter.

A job protection plan (PSE) will be launched and “we are going to offer a certain number of positions for reclassification” within the company Le Figaro, he said. The newspaper will also join the daily The Parisian to launch a new weekend TV supplement, the leader said.

According to the Alliance for Press and Media Figures (ACPM), TVMagazine was the leading magazine in France with 3.7 million copies distributed over the period 2021-2022. Launched in 1987 by the Hersant group as a supplement to French regional dailies, it then merged with Weekly TV (Lagardère group).

Lately, its manufacturing costs had skyrocketed due to rising paper and energy prices, leading to a renegotiation of contracts between Le Figaro and broadcasters.

Around fifty regional press titles, for their part, announced at the end of September the launch in early 2023 of Divertoa magazine dedicated to entertainment (television, but also video streaming and podcasts), which will be distributed in more than 3 million copies.