"We expected it inevitably, but it always gives a blow ...", loose an employee.
This Thursday, Jean-Marc Dumontet, the producer of Nicolas Canteloup announced that the comedian was ousted from the antenna of Europe 1, after 16 years of presence on the airwaves.
“We didn't know on July 2 that we would be doing our last
Review of almost
on Europe 1,” he wrote in a tweet.
With deep sadness, we learned that we would not be coming back to this beautiful meeting that we had been honoring since 2005. ”
Nicolas Canteloup and Europe 1 it's over pic.twitter.com/Ro8tnsBvhY
- Jean-Marc Dumontet (@Jmdumontet) July 22, 2021
“We are very grateful to Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, Alexandre Bompard, Denis Olivennes
(Editor's note: former leaders of Europe 1)
, continues the producer. They understood that our independence was a tribute to this beautiful house and that encouraging insolence was not only an act of confidence, but even more testified to an unfailing serenity in the future. "
Contacted by us, neither Jean-Marc Dumontet, nor Nicolas Canteloup, nor the management of the station wished to react to this announcement. According to our information, the producer and Constance Benqué, the director of the radio, met this Thursday afternoon. An appointment that marked this departure while the artist was initially guaranteed to continue until June 2022, in particular to cover the next presidential election.
Historical figure of the antenna, the imitator will therefore not have had the opportunity to say goodbye to listeners from Europe 1. Today, his final chronicle of the season, broadcast on July 2, takes on a flavor totally different.
Welcoming the departure of the morning man Matthieu Belliard, as well as many other voices on the air, he had imitated Charles Aznavour and made allusions to these many movements.
“Good luck to all the teams, good luck to all.
And as the great Breton captains say (Editor's note: allusion to Vincent Bolloré, new strongman of Europe 1): hold on to the bar, it will rock!, He had launched.
And a word of advice, get out of the Seychelles because, as I sang, poverty is less painful in the sun!
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"The shadow of Bolloré"
Internally, on the Europe 1 side, some argue a drop in audiences to justify this departure. "After sixteen years, the format of
La revue de almost
has become commonplace and is no longer a driving force for audiences in Europe 1 as it once was", we slip among the executives of the station. On the last wave published by Médiamétrie, over the months of April to June 2021, Nicolas Canteloup gathered 767,000 listeners every day, effectively down from 104,000 regulars over one year. But the comedian nevertheless remained the peak audience of the station. "Above all, Nicolas was expensive ...", we slip in the corridors of the station. The fate of Julie Leclerc, who accompanied Nicolas Canteloup, is not yet decided. “I'm just infinitely sad,” she replied.
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If the station advances economic reasons, the freedom of tone of Nicolas Canteloup has surely tipped the scales.
At the end of the season, the impersonator had cringe in the editorial staff.
He had not hesitated to tackle head-on, on the air in his chronicles, the unprecedented strike which had affected Europe 1 in June.
Just like the takeover of the radio by Vincent Bolloré.
Because the Breton businessman, boss of Canal + and of the much criticized continuous news channel CNews, worries the editorial staff since he became the first shareholder of the radio.
“And above all, it is the real boss, specifies a former employee.
We can clearly see that behind what has been happening for several months, there is the shadow of Bolloré.
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The departure of Nicolas Canteloup is therefore added to a list that has grown over the weeks. Because at the approach of the end of the season, Europe 1 has separated from Matthieu Belliard, at the head of the morning since 2019, but also from Patrick Cohen, Jimmy Mohamed, Émilie Mazoyer, Anne Roumanoff - also considered too expensive by the management - or even the chroniclers Pascale Clark and Bertrand Chameroy. Julian Bugier, who officiated between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., has decided not to come back. Just like the comedian Christine Berrou, who slammed the door after being censored on a joke aimed at Eric Zemmour, emblematic face of Cnews that Nicolas Canteloup then derided many times at the end of the season. In addition, nearly 80 people applied for a social plan limited to forty departures.
