Channel your Angers

Angers city has stood up for its project of a new tv channel on November 21st in front of the French Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (Csa). The cause of the new local station was pleaded by the Angers mayor, Frédéric Beatse. If that one had indications to give to the persons he was talking to, regarding the investors, the organization of the team managing the future tv channel and its positioning with Angers city, nothing has been disclosed, till now, about the content of the channel.

Mr Beatse nevertheless revealed what Angers tv will not be : the voice of the mayor. "It will not be my channel", he said promising to set up an ethic committee entrusted to ensure that independance of the structure face to the town will not be endangered. That is patently obvious given that a tv channel in the hands of politicians would not last long. The leaders of the opposition in Angers town council are doubtful about that independance and attempt to sow their trouble. But will such the assurance given by Mr Béatse be sufficient? 

Crédit Picture : Csa

 It is not sure. Nothing has been disclosed about what the Angers inhabitants will watch from March 1st. So the managers of the project have three months ahead to imagine the programmes, their schedules and their costs. Angers experienced two channels, Tv 10 and Angers 7 which were both liquidated. Has any teaching already got from those previous failures? Up to now, the future tv looks more wished by the institutions than the Angers public.