Dati wants to “bring together the forces” of public broadcasting into a “powerful pole”. “When I was not Minister of Culture, it was my idea, my conviction” already, underlined Ms.

Dati. The merger between the television channel France 3 and the regional radio stations France Bleu should ultimately result in a single brand of local public broadcasting, with unions fearing a merger. The “TV license fee” was abolished in 2022 and temporarily replaced by the allocation of a fraction of VAT.