Sibyle Veil is seeking a second term at Radio France

Truce of suspense. The president of Radio France, Sibyle Veil, is a candidate for her own succession at the head of the radio group. “I am happier here than anywhere else”she confided Tuesday at the end of the morning to the employees of the House of radio and music, during an intervention of about ten minutes. “You can count on me to defend the radio”she continued in substance.

The uncertainty surrounding this candidacy was relative. While the audiences of public antennas continue to grow, and digital developments continue (podcasts, social networks, connected speakers), Sibyle Veil has solid arguments to convince the members of the Audiovisual Communication Regulatory Authority and digital (Arcom, ex-CSA) to renew her in her functions. “I want to keep wearing what I believe inshe explains to World. I believe in this very fine company, and I am aware of the honor it represents to be there. »

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At the end of June, however, the leader announced in an interview with Figaro (June 23), “want to know the project for the public audiovisual sector” before ” to commit “, promising to position themselves before the fall. In front of the employees, she again acknowledged that she was unaware of “what frame” public broadcasting will evolve “in the next five years”. But the decision taken this summer by the authorities to replace the fee, abolished, with an affected tax, “is rather encouragingshe adds today. This development is positive, especially since the independence of our houses is fragile and must be protected”.

“A woman from Radio France”

While before the senators, the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul-Malak said she was open to all options for public broadcasting, Sibyle Veil has always repeated her opposition to any merger with France Télévisions.

Aged 44, this enarque from the same promotion as Emmanuel Macron has been CEO of Radio France since April 2018. Then deputy director in charge of operations and finance for three years, she had succeeded Mathieu Gallet when the CSA had dismissed this last of his functions, after his conviction for favoritism when he directed the National Institute of Audiovisual. Seven years after joining 116 avenue du Président-Kennedy, M^me Veil is “no longer just a woman in public service”but “a woman from Radio France”she told her troops.

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