France Télévisions does not share “Échappées belles”. Chérie 25 rebroadcast, Friday January 17, 2025 in prime time, an issue of season 10 of the France 5 magazine. The NRJ group channel intended to continue its momentum by offering other issues of the brand, presented alternately by Sophie Jovillard, Jérôme Pitorin and Ismaël Khelifa, every Friday until February 7. A strategy hampered by legal questions.
“A problem with program rights”
“Due to a problem linked to the rights of the program, Chérie 25 is forced to replace the program ‘Échappées belles’ with the program ‘Héritages’ (former magazine of NRJ 12, channel of the same group, from Friday January 24, 2025). editor’s note) for broadcasts on January 24 and 31 and February 7, 2025“, announces Chérie 25.
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-Invited by Puremédias to specify the reason for this deprogramming, Chérie 25 did not wish to comment further. At France Télévisions, a source was a little more talkative. “The broadcaster (Chérie 25, editor’s note) did not request authorization from France Télévisions” before programming old issues of the magazine.
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Friday January 17 between 9:13 p.m. and 10:55 p.m., 255,000 viewers rediscovered the number whose theme was “The charm of Italian lakes”, or 1.5% of the public aged four and over. 121,000 viewers (1.6% of the public) salivated over the second issue dedicated to “Lyon gourmand”. In addition to “Échappées belles”, Chérie 25 has set its sights on other old or current France Télévisions brands, like “Candice Renoir” with Cécile Bois or “Le jour ou tout a culle”, a scripted reality show presented by Nathalie Fellonneau.
