Faced with the 8 p.m. news from TF1 and France 2, which are very much in the habits of viewers, the news channels have until now played counter-programming, by offering debate meetings. BFM-TV has decided to turn the table: from January 6, the news channel recently bought by Rodolphe Saadé should, according to our information, inaugurate its own “8 p.m.
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Lasting two hours, it will be presented by Maxime Switek, currently host of the 9 a.m.-noon slot – he took over, in January 2023, from Bruce Toussaint, who left for TF1. The journalist should be surrounded by a few expert voices (on domestic politics, the economy, international issues in particular), but also offer reports and interviews. The objective is to move away from confrontational formats to favor a dispassionate, even benevolent, approach to information, as the show already does “Perrine until midnight”, every day at 10 p.m.
-With this new show, Maxime Switek dislodges his colleague Eric Brunet, who had joined BFM-TV at the start of the school year, after being poached from LCI by the team previously in place (Marc-Olivier Fogiel at the management of BFM-TV, Hervé Béroud to the information department of the BFM-TV-RMC group).
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