[London Lite]

According to a report made by the Force Ouvrière union, the idea is that, in a first stage, they will increase the number of normal scheduling weeks from 36 to 42, and plans are underway to expand the morning slots to allow for a pre-morning news programme. Le 23h is being retained as it is.

36 weeks a year is shocking. I can understand news channels using less resources for national holidays, Easter and Christmas week, but they've gone into holiday mode when there's still an active news cycle in France.

My guess is they'll still take a long break for the summer from July the the end of August which is 7 weeks and then shorter breaks for Christmas, Easter and maybe a week rather than two for half terms in October and February.