[matthieu1221]

BFMTV has been doing a great job. They had cameras on the scene in minutes and they used multiple angles and they used the sky cams to give an skyline perspective. BFMTV does a great job of coveraing french stories. And they are good at getting to scenes very quickly. Also because they have multiple regional 24hr news channels they can utilize those resources within minutes. BFMTV Paris also did their own separate coverage from a local level. Which is absolutely amazing they didnt turn their signal over to the mothership.  They continued to provide the citizens of Paris their own coverage. Thats how it should be done. Of course they shared live images from the scene between both channels. But they also had their own BFMTV Paris reporters live on the scene.  Though they did take advert breaks. (Gotta make the money to make the channel profitable, speaking of adverts. Unlike the failed UK local channel experiment. These BFMTV channels actually had real paying adverts, from actual companies and national advertisers) They restarted right at the top of the hour.  Great coverage from both BFMTV National and BFMTV Paris

Also I noticed, the french police, fire and municipal authorities made sure they updated the public regularly on the latest of the situation LIVE and on camera. Instead of  waiting hours before saying anything.

BFM Paris simulcasted BFMTV briefly for about 20 minutes before starting their on coverage (at the usual time their in-vision evening slot usually starts). I do wonder how breaking news is handled given how the regional channels all use what they like to call 'presentation autonome' in which the presenter does a lot of the work the gallery usually would do. Works fine when it's more or less scripted, but with breaking news I really do wonder how they manage it.

LCI also had good coverage, taking a break from Ukraine briefly.

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I am really interested to know how France Info manages to make these TV/Radio simulcasts such a success

Funnily enough, the local audiovisual/TV pres fans in France wouldn't consider the current state of TV/radio simulcasts on franceinfo in their current state a success at all after they've been continually scaled down. There is allegedly some friction between TV and radio which has led to a downscaling of simulcasts and joint coverage.