Rachida Dati: "For public broadcasting, the status quo is not an option"

Even her supporters have dubbed it "the cursed reform" . After two failed attempts in June and December 2024 (first due to the dissolution of the National Assembly, then due to the fall of the Barnier government), then the one in April (the text had been withdrawn from the agenda due to lack of time to examine it), Rachida Dati is preparing, from June 30, to defend in the Chamber the text on the reform of public broadcasting. Objective: to create, from January ^1, 2026, an executive holding company, called France Médias, which would bring together France Télévisions, Radio France and the National Audiovisual Institute (INA).

Determined to overcome the rejection that this bill is causing among left-wing MPs, but also, sometimes, from the center, the Minister of Culture entrusted, in March, a support mission to a strong ally. Laurence Bloch , former director of France Inter, is indeed convinced that public broadcasting will perish if it is not reunited. She has therefore put all her energy, in recent months, into the execution of a report which must be submitted to MPs on Monday, June 16. It is there, in these 17 pages (around thirty with the annexes) that they will find the justifications for this organization into a single company, in which France Télévisions and Radio France will be subsidiaries, in the same way as local news (Ici) and continuous news (Franceinfo).

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