Cyril Hanouna leaves the airwaves after two weeks of “We’re walking on our heads”

MEDIA – Two short weeks, ten issues, and then it’s gone. Tailor-made for the legislative elections, Cyril Hanouna’s show on Europe 1 closed its doors on Friday, June 28, a few hours before the end of the election campaign.

Shoehorned into the program schedule of the radio station owned by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, We walk on the head therefore ended after fifteen days of existence. But Europe 1 has already found how to replace the show of the star C8 host by offering the keys to the 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. slot to Eliot Deval.

Formal notice from Arcom

For the next two weeks, the one who officiates on CNews as Pascal Praud’s joker will get a new daily political show simply titled: “Eliot Deval on Europe 1”. A way for the radio station to “stay engaged on political news after the first round of the legislative elections”as she explains in a press release.

According to Europe 1, this new show will once again give the floor to guests and columnists from Monday July 1 to 12. A voice already known to listeners since Eliot Deval already operates on Saturday mornings on a segment that he co-hosts with Philippe de Villiers. A replacement which will inevitably be closely observed after the numerous criticisms formulated against We walk on the headcalled to order twice by Arcom in the space of two weeks of legislative campaign.

Initially, on June 19, the audiovisual regulator had pinned the station “in particular in view of recent developments in” his grid, to remind him of his obligation to “ treat with measure and honesty in electoral news”. On June 27, Arcom finally put Europe 1 on notice for its lack of “ measure » et « of honesty “A first in the history of its antenna.

As such, Cyril Hanouna and his gang were mainly accused of treating the political formation of the New Popular Front “in a systematically critical and virulent manner, often in pejorative and outrageous terms”. Not to mention the fact that a large majority of the guests were from the extreme right.

“Political propaganda”

Attacks against Cyril Hanouna’s show that the latter barely appreciated during the last show broadcast on Friday, denouncing a ” Two weights, two measures ” Before adding: “I know all about fines…”in a barely veiled reference to Arcom’s numerous sanctions against Do not touch My TV and more broadly against the C8 channel which broadcasts Cyril Hanouna’s flagship program on television.

The newspaper The world nevertheless carried out this Saturday, June 29, a work of quantifying the political representation in the program broadcast five days a week until the first round. Over fifteen hours of live broadcast on the airwaves, the speaking time of the guests from the New Popular Front concerns 1,641 seconds, against 6,116 for the presidential camp and 5,499 seconds for the RN and its alliance with LR, not counting the 552 seconds for Debout la France and the 661 seconds of Reconquête.

The investigation, beyond noting the considerable airtime given to the far right, also reveals that several dozen minutes of live footage were subtly removed from Europe 1 replays. According to the newspaper, is this the cause? “ These passages, sometimes ten minutes long, contain, according to a legal consultancy firm, political and personal accusations which could expose Europe 1 and Cyril Hanouna to legal proceedings, on the basis of defamation and infringement of the presumption of ‘innocence “, he says.

Enough to inspire a worrying observation: the program initially presented as airtime allowing ” return to political news » almost immediately turned into a show of ” political propaganda, in the middle of an election period ».

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