The unmissable event for millions of French viewers is changing its format: the 8pm television news programme (JT) will be extended. It will now last one hour, “take your time” of “decipher” TO “complex world”announced France Télévisions on Wednesday, September 4.
“Starting next week, you will find an hour of information between 8 and 9 p.m.”declared the public group’s information director, Alexandre Kara, during the big back-to-school conference. This new 8 p.m. format will start on September 9. So far, the news has lasted about thirty-five minutes. “We are going to give more time to the 20 hours, because it is more necessary than ever in the complex environment that is ours”Mr. Kara argued, depending on who it is ” vital “ of “take the time to inform yourself”.
“This certainly goes against an era made of shortcuts”For her part, stressed the president of France Télévisions, Delphine Ernotte Cunci. According to her, “The demands of the French to understand and decipher the world are multiplied tenfold”.
The 8pm news on France 2 is presented during the week by Anne-Sophie Lapix and at weekends by Laurent Delahousse. This extension “It doesn’t mean we’re going to lose momentum”M. assuredme Lapix, promising “Extensive reports to take the pulse of society”as well as “more research”.
Prime time remains at 9:05 p.m.
“We are not going to choose to process more information, but to process it better”added Mr. Kara. “The idea is to expand the subjects when necessary”with supporting reports and “More people on the set”as “experts and specialist journalists”he detailed. “It is about not leaving people alone when faced with information that is sometimes complex and often indigestible”insisted the director of information of France Télévisions.
According to him, there will be “two turns” of this new news, “more like a week” Monday to Thursday and “more like a weekend” from Friday to Sunday, where the second part will be dedicated to magazine topics.
The extension of the 20-hour schedule on France 2 will not delay the broadcast of the following programmes, nor could it even bring them forward compared to the current schedule, the public group assured. “Prime time will begin at 9:05 pm.”promised the number 2 of France Télévisions, Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez. According to him, “the extra space” It premiered with the passage of the daily soap opera “What a big sun” on France 3, while it was previously broadcast on France 2 at 8:40 p.m., just after the news broke.
