The director of the France Télévisions channels announced this Sunday, May 5, the end of the program created in 1972 at the start of the next school year, due to a lack of viewers.
In five letters. Vowel. Consonant. Consonant. Vowel. Consonant. “STOP”. Numbers and letterswill disappear from the France Télévisions schedules at the start of the school year, after more than fifty years of existence, announced this Sunday, May 5, the director of the antennas Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, in The gallery. “The weekend programming Numbers and letters was not crowned with success. After fifty years of existence, it is an emblematic meeting. It’s a difficult decision but we have made the choice to stop this program”he justified.
Since the start of the school year in September 2022, the game created in 1972, the oldest in France, has only been broadcast on weekends. “A goodbye show will bring together Patrice Laffont and Laurent Romejko [soit son premier et son dernier présentateurs, NDLR]and will thank all the teams”added the antenna director.
The place on France 3 for the emblematic game, on Saturday and Sunday at 5:15 p.m., will now be occupied by the television adaptation of another emblematic program from Radio France, The 1,000 euro gameuntil now broadcast only on Saturdays.
Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez also announced the non-renewal of much more recent shows like Bertrand is not sleepy Or In an organized group, “because they have not fully found their audience”.
“On the other hand, many recent programs are being renewed, like C media (France 5) and Indeed (France 2). We will also continue our strategy aimed at young audiences by investing in the Twitch platform from the start of the school year”he continued.
