If Jean-Jacques Bourdin stops the presentation of the RMC morning but keeps the political interview of 8:30 am, another "big mouth" has decided to completely leave the radio owned by Altice. According to our information, Éric Brunet will not stack for another season on RMC. From September, it will land on the LCI grid. Several boxes are currently still vacant.
Since this season, Éric Brunet has co-presented with Laurent Neumann a program entitled Brunet Neumann, broadcast between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. each Friday on BFM TV and Monday to Friday between noon and 2 p.m. on RMC. Strong personality of the PAF, the host and columnist is renowned for not having his tongue in his pocket. In 2017, on BFMTV, he treated the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on the Venezuelan line Chavez-Maduro, as "morons" . The journalist is known for his commitment to the right and his proximity to former President Nicolas Sarkozy. In 2012, convinced of his re-election, he had also written a book entitled "Why Sarko will win" . "To be on the right, in literature as in politics, is to have a taste for panache", he explained 10 years ago in another book.
Does this recruitment constitute a shift made by the news channel to go back to CNews? In June, LCI, although growing, was beaten by the antenna of the Canal + group, which benefited in particular from the very good audience scores of Face à l'Info , the program hosted by Christine Kelly with Éric Zemmour.
“ LCI is a chain of debates and all debates. But we are not going to add fuel to the fire, it is not our ambition. We can get bickered on LCI, but always by appealing to reason rather than flattering emotions, "said Monday Thierry Thuillier, the head of news for the TF1 group in Le Figaro.