This Friday, December 20, 2024, Pascal Praud and his team found themselves in the dark following a technical incident. The journalist had to improvise while the bug was fixed.
Since 2016, Pascal Praud presents Professional Timea show first broadcast on i-Télé before the channel was renamed CNews. In this show, broadcast daily, he discusses current events with his regular columnists and guests. The journalist does not hesitate to give his opinion on certain subjects, such as immigration or, more recently, the fact that the jury for the last Miss France election was 100% female. Its program is broadcast liveboth on CNews and on Europe 1, a radio station on which he also presents Pascal Praud and you.
The set of L’Heure des pros plunged into darkness
This Friday, December 20, 2024 at 9 a.m., Pascal Praud took to the air like every morning of the week. But just four minutes after the start of Pro Houran incident has occurred. The lights on the television set went suddenly cut offplunging the host and his columnists Eugénie Bastié, Georges Fenech and Joseph Macé-Scaron into darkness. “Ah, so there, friends…“, exclaimed the journalist before singing “Christmas, Merry Christmas“, the beginning of the song Good kisses from Fort-de-France of La Compagnie Créole. “We are, as you have understood, plunged into darkness. But look, it's not a big deal. I would like to point out that if you are in front of your post, do not change anything“, he declared before adding: “In the end no one sees us, but it's not very serious, we can be heard! We're going to do radio“.
A situation quickly restored
As the journalist pointed out, this incident changed nothing for Europe 1 listeners, “since by definition it is radio“. Pascal Praud had to furnish a few seconds before worrying about the technical possibility of broadcasting the planned subjects. Finally, the lights on the set were returned one by onebefore a complete return to normal. “Ah, we're back. I believe that there, the light returns. Listen, it's Christmas, it's the spirit of Christmas“, commented Pascal Praud. After this unexpected event, the one who recently paid tribute to the former director of his show, Audrey Misiraca, who died on December 15, resumed the thread of his show by commenting on Emmanuel Macron's visit to Mayotte.
