Shaken in the first half of the year by the public broadcasting merger project, interrupted by the dissolution, then by the specter of privatization if the RN had taken power, the Radio France group is starting the new school year regenerated. The Olympic Games have passed by and “the summer has done us some good collectively”, declared its CEO Sibyle Veil during a press conference at the headquarters, proposing to prolong “this breath of positivity”. According to her, public service radio stations constitute “powerful therapies against what undermines living together”.
To play this unifying role, Radio France, which has just launched the new version of its application, wants this year to put proximity “at the center of gravity of the public service” and “give a voice to a France that is poorly listened to from Paris,” declared Sibyle Veil. This is in particular the role of the France Bleu network, whose director, Céline Pigalle, now assumes, in addition to her duties, the role of deputy editorial director of the group in charge of information and proximity, alongside editorial director Vincent Meslet, who has just taken up his duties.
