Jean-Baptiste Boursier changes creamery. Three years after his return to BFMTV, the 40-year-old presenter joined LCI. From the beginning of the next school year, he will be in charge of the morning of the TF1 group's news channel. He will replace Stefan Etcheverry, also formerly of BFMTV, who is still discussing with his management his future place in the grid.
LCI is delighted with the arrival of the pillar of its great rival. "Jean-Baptiste Boursier has a lot of strings to his bow. He has expertise in many fields, starting with politics, but also in international, one of the specialties of our chain, as he showed during his relocation to Kiev, one year after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, "explains Fabien Namias, Deputy Director General of LCI.
Its mission: to boost the morning
With this recruitment of this very identified face of the public, the news channel intends to boost a morning that has never managed to find its formula, unlike the end of the day segments, like that of David Pujadas.
In charge of the 18h/20h of the weekend of BFMTV but also the evenings Champions League of RMC Sport, Jean-Baptiste Boursier had for several years the move. In 2019, his appearance on France 3 to present "Sunday in France" was cut short. He had finally returned to his old home, after the Covid-19 crisis.
On the LCI side, this is not the first time that we poach stars of BFMTV: Ruth Elkrief, Pascale de La Tour du Pin, Stefan Etcheverry or Thomas Misrachi had also been recruited drumbeating.