[matthieu1221]

What an interesting poach. David Doukhan, current head of the Politics team at Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France (and formerly of Europe 1 before the Bollorisation of that) is joining LCI from September and host and editor in chief of the Friday-Sunday 6pm/8pm slot. He's also going to be present in the Sunday midday politics show. He replaces Emmanuel Ostian (who may now possibly replace Darius Rochebin from 8pm/midnight?) on Fridays and Saturdays and Rochebin on Sundays (who is moving to replace Eric Brunet on the weekday 10pm/midnight slot).

Is the arrival of a political journalist a sign that LCI is moving away (permanently) from international news? I wonder if this was worked out before/after the dissolution of the Assemblee Nationale and the perspective of a far-right government (which would likely warrant more coverage of domestic politics on LCI than otherwise).

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Turns out Emmanuel Ostian is leaving LCI. Ozap reports that he wants to focus on other projects.

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All of the news channels in France will really need to up their game with the prospect of having the assembly being run by a far-right party with a centrist President, so I think LCI have got in early with their hiring of David Doukhan.

LCI have excelled with their international news coverage in recent years, but the real news that could be a big change for the average French citizen means they need to go back to domestic news.

Speaking of which, if it does happen, we'll also be talking about their plans to privatise France TV and Radio France. France 24, ARTE and the outre-mer channels would be exceptions. It's under the pretext of cost-savings but they frequently complain that certain channels/programs 'lean to the left (or even to the far-left)'.

Even short of that, funding is something that will come up. The license fee was scrapped in 2022 and since then the temporary fix has been funding allocated from VAT but that's due to lapse at the end of the next year.