France: : Conseil d’État approves appointment of new France Télévisions President

• Autores: Amélie Blocman
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 3, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 23 April 2015 the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) appointed Delphine Ernotte Cunci, former Director-General of Orange, as President of France Télévisions. To achieve greater transparency, the Act of 15 November 2013 amended Article 47-4 of the Act of 30 September 1986, giving the CSA the power to appoint the presidents of the public-sector audiovisual companies (France Télévisions, Radio France, and the company responsible for audiovisual broadcasting outside France); this power had previously been exercised by the French President. The CSA was keen to have a totally secret process, but the appointment of the new President of France Télévisions attracted considerable criticism. Contesting the appointment, two of the unions active within the company had even called for the CSA’s decision to be annulled on the grounds that it had exceeded its powers.