State and civil service, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
Public broadcasting: End of public funding for broadcasting, replaced by a citizen voucher
Direction of change: decrease, compared with current law.
The lever. Public radio and television: funding, governance, merger of companies, possible privatisation. Direction rule: ↑ higher public funding.
« Nous interdirons comme dans d’autres pays aux propriétaires de médias de bénéficier de commandes publiques et nous remplacerons le financement public du service public audiovisuel et les aides à la presse par un chèque citoyen, que chaque foyer fiscal pourra flécher vers le média de son choix. »1Translation by the editorsAs in other countries, we will prohibit media owners from benefiting from public contracts and we will replace the public funding of public broadcasting and press subsidies with a citizen voucher, which each tax household will be able to direct to the media outlet of its choice.
Words of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Discours de candidature, Yerres, 8 March 2025. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme.
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Public funding is replaced by a citizen voucher whose amount is not given: the net balance cannot be costed.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Licence fee abolished in 2022. Funding through a share of VAT allocated to the « Avances à l'audiovisuel public » account (organic law allowing it to continue beyond 2024): €3,878.3m in the PLF 2026 (−1.8%). France Télévisions €2,440.6m, Radio France 648.0, Arte France 298.1, France Médias Monde 303.9, INA 103.5, TV5 Monde 84.2.
Horizon. full year 2032, €bn/year
Limits. The gain from privatisation is a static costing: it ignores transition costs (redundancy plans, takeover of commitments, broadcasting contracts), any compensated public service obligations and the sale proceeds, which are received only once and do not count in the annual balance. “Net” convention: €126.2m of the 2026 grant offsets tax effects linked to the abolition of the licence fee, which go back to the State (€54.4m for France Télévisions, €30.3m for Radio France); the central value deducts them (3,878.3 − 126.2 ≈ €3,752m for the abolition of all funding; 2,440.6 + 648.0 − 54.4 − 30.3 ≈ €3,004m for France Télévisions and Radio France, editors' calculations), the upper bound is the gross amount. The two options overlap (overlap declared). A privatisation of “public broadcasting” with no list of the companies concerned (same reading for all candidates, rule of 18 October 2026) is costed through the option privatisation-perimetre-non-dit: at the centre and as lower bound, France Télévisions and Radio France, the two main companies (€3.0bn net, 80% of the net grant); as upper bound, all the companies (€3.88bn gross). The final amount in the initial finance act for 2026 (LFI 2026) is not verified (amendments to restore funding under discussion).
- AN, rapport spécial PLF 2026, Médias, livre et industries culturelles ; Avances à l'audiovisuel public (D. Masséglia), 2025-10: « l'affectation d'une fraction du produit de la TVA au compte de concours financiers Avances à l'audiovisuel public, à hauteur de 3,878 milliards d'euros en 2026, ce qui représenterait une baisse de 70,9 millions d'euros (– 1,8 %) par rapport à la LFI 2025 ; France Télévisions 2 505,8 2 440,6 ; Radio France 652,1 648,0 »
- Sénat, rapport spécial PLF 2026, Médias, livre et industries culturelles, synthèse (montants du PLF), 2025-11: « Le projet de loi de finances prévoit que les sociétés de l’audiovisuel public bénéficient en 2026 d’un montant de 3,878 milliards d’euros, bénéficiant pour près des deux-tiers à France Télévisions et pour 17 % à Radio France. Le montant prévu en 2026 serait inférieur d’1,8 % au montant accordé en 2025. »
- AN, rapport spécial PLF 2026, Médias, livre et industries culturelles ; Avances à l'audiovisuel public (D. Masséglia), données clés et commentaire (pages 11 et 16), 2025-10: « LFI 2025 PLF 2026 Dont compensation des effets fiscaux (prévisions 2026) […] France Télévisions 2 505,8 2 440,6 54,4 […] Radio France 652,1 648,0 30,3 […] Total 3 949,2 3 878,3 126,2 […] En prenant en compte la progression des effets fiscaux liés à la suppression de la contribution à l’audiovisuel public (CAP) en 2022 (1), qui s’élèveraient à 126,2 millions d’euros en 2026, la baisse nette serait légèrement plus importante, à hauteur de 72,8 millions d’euros. »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
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- Discours de candidature, Yerres, 8 March 2025. Words of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme. Read the source (Discours de candidature, Yerres).
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