Monaco Info and TV Monaco will give way to a new television channel on September 1, 2025

During the debates around the initial 2025 budget, on the evening of December 16, 2024, national advisors addressed the question of the future of TV Monaco. In an interview with Monaco-Morningmid-November 2024, Prince Albert II announced that he had asked his Minister of State, Didier Guillaume, to combine Monaco Info and TV Monaco into a single entity. On September 1, 2025, a new public television “ independent » will be launched, confirmed Didier Guillaume before the elected representatives of the National Council, explaining that it will not “ would not report to the communications director » of the government, no more than of the government. A board of directors will be set up, but also a strategic council made up of professionals, as well as an advertising agency, in order to develop revenue. “ There will only be one public channel which will be efficient and professionala promis Didier Guillaume. It will be efficient and professional, but it will not be 100% financed by the public. »

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From January 2025, the government’s communications director, Geneviève Berti, will receive a mission letter from Didier Guillaume. She will then take on the role of “ foreshadowing » of this new channel. It will be necessary, among other things, to negotiate the exit of the TV5 Monde network. We remember that the principality had acquired 5.3% of the capital of TV5 Monde at the end of 2021 for 4.2 million euros, and thus becoming the sixth country to finance this channel. Launched on January 2, 1984, TV5 Monde is a simplified joint stock company (SAS), whose largest shareholder remains France Télévisions, with 46.4%, ahead of France Médias Monde (11.9%).