Surprise weight at Europe 1. The station announced this Thursday evening via a press release detailing its new re-entry grid for this season which will begin this Monday August 23: Jean-Pierre Elkabbach will make his comeback on the airwaves of the radio station that he had left at the start of 2017. The 83-year-old journalist "will take the helm of the major interview every weekend at 8.15 am" specifies Europe 1. He will thus intervene in the section of "Europe 1 morning" on Saturdays and Sundays from now on entrusted to Bérénice Bourgueil, a Belgian presenter with RTL and a new recruit responsible for waking up listeners at the end of the week "with spirit and good humor".
A hell of a turnaround for the man of radio and television, who had been excluded four years ago from the morning political interview he had conducted every day since 1987 on the station. He then joined CNews on January 11, 2017, and was appointed advisor to majority shareholder Vincent Bolloré. Responsible for the daily political interview in the morning, he was forced to leave the antenna for a year from October 2019 after a health problem. The former boss of France Télévisions and Europe 1 returned to the Canal + group's news channel on September 27, 2020 with a new weekly political program called "Repères".
