“The editorial promise is above all to inform the French“. This Thursday, November 28, Michel Cymes was the guest of “Infos Médias”, France Info's daily meeting on media news, to talk about “Mieux”, the television channel of which he is the co-founder (with Franck Papazian, owner of “CB News” and “Strategies”) and which he will launch “next spring“. He has also launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Sowefund platform to help find funds. The objective of 2.5 million euros collected is almost reached, since the prize pool currently stands at 2, 07 million euros.
A “completely transversal” health chain
The former co-host of “Extraordinary Powers of the Human Body” on France 2 believes that today, “the state of health in France is absolutely catastrophic, particularly in terms of information and access to care“. “Health information is conspiracy, we need 'Better' which will provide real information. Evidence-based medicine“, he said. Viewers will find in “Mieux” a “completely transversal health chain” with “a television news“et you”decryption of information“The themes covered will range from prevention to the environment, including well-being and the arrival of artificial intelligence in medicine, detailed Michel Cymes at the microphone of Célyne Baÿt-Darcourt.
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And to support him in this new adventure, the co-founder of the channel called on well-known personalities from the small screen. “I will have a show but it won't be 'Cymes TV'“, he underlined with humor, before mentioning the names of Laurent Bignolas (ex-“Télématin”) or even Catherine Matausch (who presented “19/20” on France 3). Marina Carrère d'Encausse , her sidekick from “Magazine de la santé” on France 5, will she be there?She will perhaps come later, for the moment she is still on France 5“, he replied.
Initially, “Mieux” will be available only on Boxes, on the internet and social networks, for free. The channel had applied to have a TNT frequency but was not accepted by Arcom. “We will eventually try to have a TNT frequency later.“, confided Michel Cymes.