This is an announcement we didn’t necessarily expect. Yves Bigot was a guest C environment took the opportunity yesterday to announce that he received a losing order in the Eurovision contest on Sunday, May 7, at France 5 and head of the entertainment division of France 2 and RTBF. Information published by the current general manager TV5 World more than once surprised and agreed to reveal himself to our colleagues. Parisian.
“If you win we will fire you”
Unfiltered declared in France 5: “We were ordered to lose. The problem is, if you win, you’re organized next year”. Therefore, this order would have been given for a money issue, as it implied a cost between the two parties. “20 to 25 million francs” to organize the event. “The chains do not have this money, except for the small countries financed by the Ministry of Tourism”announced Yves Bigot. And insist: “I had losing orders when I was in France 2 and I had losing orders when I was in RTBF”. Added RTBF. “After winning Eurovision, it had to lay off 2,000 people” to be able to finance the competition for next year. So in 1998, when he was the entertainment director of France 2, we used to tell him. “If you win you will be fired”.
-also Parisiantherefore back to this expression. C environment and gave some details. “If I remember correctly it was for Eurovision in 1999. I was in France 2 at the time. Eurovision is one of the events that I have to deal with”, he remembered first. He then thinks of Emma Shapplin, whom he “was about to sign” when he left his post as director of the Mercury label. “Later, the countries that voted for Eurovision, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Russia, Greece, Macedonia sold millions of albums (…) I said to myself: I have a chance to win once in two.”Confessed.
“It was a bad year to win Eurovision”
He later confirmed to our colleagues that it was him. “I still believe we will win today”. “I had a musical background. I managed two record labels. That was my job”, he insisted. Then to elaborate: “And one day, I met Xavier Gouyou-Beauchamps, who was then president of France Télévisions, and he asked me, ‘What does Eurovision look like?’ said. I replied to him, ‘We will win, president. there he adds: “First of all, don’t do that!”Yves Bigot emphasizes that this is necessary. “to put this exchange in the context of time”. “The producer animators, as Guignols de l’Info called it, were shortly after the controversy surrounding the ‘potato thieves'” and Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, then CEO of France Télévisions, was accused of signing juicy contracts with the production companies of Nagui, Jean-Luc Delarue and Arthur.
“There were a lot of questions about funding public broadcasting and how we used that money. I realized very, very quickly that it was a bad year to win Eurovision because if that was the case, we had to organize it the following year. It cost a fortune, about 20 million francs at the time. He said it would happen. It wasn’t the time.”continued the old boss. Parisian. How does he manage to waste time then? “Finally, I was lucky that the French rugby team also had a match on the Eurovision final day. As soon as I saw this, I said: France 2 rugby channel, we are getting the match and France 3 will broadcast Eurovision. So they took care of the artist selection and during the eight years I was in France 2 I don’t have to worry about it anymore. And I lost interest. IT”He finished Yves Bigot.
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Source: Programme Television
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