It will have seen 17 Ministers of Culture, 8 bosses of France Télévisions, 6 presidents of Arcom (formerly CSA), and 5 Presidents of the Republic.
It is not just a page in the history of the M6 group that will turn on April 23.
An entire chapter of French audiovisual industry will be closed.
At 73, Nicolas de Tavernost, the last great beast of television, has finally decided to disappear.
The one whom Senator Laurent Lafon had designated, during a hearing, as “
the “patriarch” of French audiovisual
”, will bow out.
Born under the sign of Leo, the emblematic boss spent a lifetime building M6.
In 1987, while working at Lyonnaise des Eaux, Nicolas de Tavernost found himself at the forefront at the same time as Patrick Le Lay and Étienne Mougeotte, the directors of the privatized TF1, who also marked the heyday of television.
Here he is in charge of the project to create the channel, before being appointed deputy director of Métropole…
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