Angers Loire Télévision, officialy candidate for a channel

After the late Angers 7, the local tv channel which closed in May 2010, Angers city has introduced a successor : Angers Loire Television. The project of that new channel, of which the Angers town hall council spoke a few months ago, has been sent on Tuesday to the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel. An audience is scheduled at the Csa next month. If the step is successful, Angers Loire Television should broadcast from the beginning of 2013.

The idea has appealed to private investors what should be a guarantee of the independance of the station. Some private companies, two of them from Angers, have agreed to invest money in the project : Le Grenier à Pains, a chain of bakeries, and La Boucherie, a chain of restaurants as well as a Super U and the Hemisphère store. Some medias are also associated. The Maine-et-Loire Chamber of commerce and industry gave its support to that idea but, apparently, will not be one of the shareholders. Several public regional and local authorities are involved on the scheme : the Pays de la Loire regional council, Angers Loire Métropole and Angers city. On his side, the Maine et Loire general council had said no.


The work to be done now is to give Angers Loire Télévision a content. The presence of private shareholders, and among them professionnals of the medias sector, should prevent the channel become too indentured to public authorities. The electoral campaign for municipal polls will be a good test.