Microphones flocked with the Europe 1 logo. – Thomas SAMSON / AFP
Since the beginning of the week, the announcements of departures follow one another at Europe 1. This Friday, our colleagues from
The Audiovisual Letter argue that Matthieu Belliard would not be renewed at the start of the school year. The morning host has been on the air since his arrival in 2018, replacing Nikos Aliagas.
Thursday, The Parisian revealed that Anne Roumanoff had also been fired. She will present the latest issue of It feels good, its daily show, July 2. The day before, it was
Pascale clark who announced “without surprise but with sadness” via his Twitter account thatRide with would not appear in the Europe 1 program schedules at the start of the school year. The journalist indicated that the management had given her no reason to explain this decision.
Moreover, on Monday, Julian Bugier had indicated in the columns of the Parisian that he was leaving the radio where he had been providing the news section from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for a few months in order to devote himself to 13 hours from France 2.
A complicated period
These departures come as Europe 1 struggles to stop the drop in audiences. The resort launched a voluntary departure plan in the spring to straighten out its accounts.
In May, the management also announced to its employees that it wanted to strengthen the links between the radio and CNews, the news channel of the Canal + group, whose parent company Vivendi is controlled by Vincent Bolloré, also the main shareholder of Lagardère. The employees of the station fear to see Europe 1 pass under the control of Vincent Bolloré, because of the editorial line of CNews, considered very right, and the methods of management at Canal +, where journalists in disagreement with the management were pushed out or fired.