The owner of the newspaper La Provence, Rodolphe Saadé, boss of the CMA CGM group, bought the Altice Medias group, parent company of BFMTV and RMC, on Friday.
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The CMA CGM group, owned by Franco-Lebanese billionaire Rodolphe Saadé, announced on Friday March 15 that it had signed a promise to purchase with a view to acquiring Altice Media, parent company of BFMTV and RMC. “We are divided between hope and worry”reacted Nicolas Goyet, journalist and CFE-CGC union delegate to the newspaper La Provence, interviewed on franceinfo.
“We are becoming a bit small in this great media empire set up in less than two years by Rodolphe Saadé”admits Nicolas Goyet. “At the start there was only us, and then we found ourselves with behemoths like BFM and RMC which crushed us a little”he admits. “That worries us a little about possible synergies, therefore about maintaining jobs, mastering content”he elaborates.
A “long-term investment in the media” from CMA CGM
Concerns but also hope, according to him, within the editorial staff: “Still, there is a little hope because this purchase confirms CMA CGM’s objective of investing long-term in the media. And then it perhaps allows us to have audience relays”confides Nicolas Goyet. “It amuses us and it worries us a little at the same time. The people with whom we compete on information in Marseille for example, the BFM Marseille team, they will become our ‘almost colleagues’ in some time”underlines the union delegate.
