[Charles]

The programs since 8pm are perhaps the biggest sign so far today that there's an issue behind the scenes (technical issues? strike?): a 15 minute bulletin at the 8pm TOTH followed by 45 minutes of filler then repeated every subsequent hour with different filler programs. At least on the French channel though, the bulletin has somewhat crudely been edited hour to hour so not quite an exact repeat. No sign at all of Mark Owen and I don't think we'll be seeing him today.

Indeed, it appears that there is some sort of industrial action taking place. I've seen very little other than filler content in the last hour. I did see an edition of Le Journal at the top of the 08h CET hour just now though, along with the new titles.

This notice from two weeks ago from what I believe is the main union that represents fulltime staff at France Médias Monde warned that France 24 was not properly staffed or ready for the big relaunch on March 4. I can't seem to see anything calling specifically for a strike, but the union clearly wanted the relaunch to be delayed.

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