Breaking up the ORTF into 7 companies: establishment of the new structure. After a brief reminder of the announcement of the Official Journal, we witness here the dismantling of the ORTF sign affixed to the facade of the radio house. The acronym TF1 took place in the hall of Cognacq-Jay.
Mr Marceau Long, last president of the ORTF, announces the "breakup" of the Office and the birth of new audiovisual companies including the "Audiovisual Institute".
Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and the government spokesman have made public the form that will take the new organization replacing the dissolved ORTF. Here, during a televised statement, to the attention of ORTF agents, it is the turn of Marceau Long CEO of the Office, to announce the end date of the ORTF.
The reform of the ORTF is underway. Its objective: dissolution of the ORTF and creation of public audiovisual companies, by specialty. Interviewed on the subject, Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister, evokes the objectives: "...to have in 10 years or in 15 years, a radio and television that is in line with what a large country must wish...".
The reform of the ORTF is underway. Its objective: dissolution of the ORTF and creation of public audiovisual companies, by specialty. Interviewed, Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister, discusses the government’s rejection of a possible privatization of public broadcasting: "...there really is a public service mission and therefore imposes a monopoly principle, which he (the government) did not want to challenge...".
Interviewed, the CEO, Marceau Long, evokes the reform of the ORTF: "...I sincerely believe and with all my conviction, that a new organization proposed for the ORTF is neither the end of the monopoly (...) nor the end of the public service...".
A reform of the ORTF is underway. During a session in the National Assembly, the Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac, speaks about the fate of some journalists in the future organization: "...we must still be clear in this case. The television organizations, do not have for essential vocation, to pay on their budget, fed by the tax which is paid by all the viewers, staff in excess...".
ORTF President and CEO Marceau Long is responsible for preparing the reform of the ORTF. He addresses here in a televised speech, to the agents of the ORTF, announcing the end of the ORTF: "At the end of the year, a page will have been turned, in the history of the monopoly and the public service of the radio and the national television...". He concludes his remarks with a metaphor, comparing the seven new public broadcasting companies to the seven children of the ORTF.
ORTF President and CEO Marceau Long is responsible for preparing the reform of the ORTF. He speaks here in a televised address to the ORTF agents. It returns to statutory guarantees and employment in the future organization.
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