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Jean-Jacques Bourdin, who was suspended and eventually released from Altice (RMC/BFMTV) before last year's presidential election over inappropriate conduct allegations, also heavily attacked Fogiel during an interview on France 5's C Médiatique, also accusing him of editorial interference, but also of attempting to force him to use teleprompter and/or earpiece, something he refused (and angering Fogiel in the process). Bourdin currently does his morning interview on Sud Radio (one of the pioneering peripheral stations, which is now regarded by media analysts as a far-right station and the radio equivalent of CNEWS), with exactly the same style of a face-to-face interview.

www.programme-tv.net 

The network responded shortly thereafter and announced it would trigger a lawsuit on the grounds of "denigrating declarations".

www.bfmtv.com 

Not too sure what they expect out of the lawsuit. Nothing was particularly denigrating nor defamatory. Waste of time for everyone involved and most certainly won't improve the channel's image, not least because what Bourdin said was rather true and out there for everyone to see. It's most certainly backed up by what Toussaint was allegedly unhappy about (the Zucker-esque editorial interference that Fogiel has).

Gala has a more elaborate write-up on what Bourdin said on France 5
www.gala.fr 

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October news channel ratings from Mediametrie:
Channel - Oct 23 (change from Sep 23 / change from Oct 22)
BFMTV - 3.1% (+-0% / -0.1%)
CNEWS - 2.7% (+0.2% / +0.5%)
LCI - 2.1% (+0.1% / +0.1%)
franceinfo - 0.9% (+0.1% / +0.1%)

Overall total for news channels: 8.8% (+0.4% / +0.6%).

What should be a big news month and ratings boost for BFMTV isn't, have viewers switched off due to the perceived pro-Israeli bias? CNEWS has been boosted easily since this month's events fit right into what their audience likes to hear. LCI is relatively stable, there isn't an infinite audience for in-depth geopolitical and military analysis I suppose!