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France Television has announced that the SLAM show will only be broadcast on weekends from the start of the school year.
Television – New blow for France Télévisions television games. Slam game producer announced this Tuesday, August 15 in the columns of TV leisure the future removal of the show on weekends, only a few weeks after the announcement of the daily newspaper of the daily Questions for a champion.
While Slam was broadcast seven days a week last season, the game will now be available only on weekdays. This new broadcasting mode will apply on Saturday September 6.
“It is for reasons of economy. There will be two less programs per week for “slam” and five less for “questions for a champion” ”said the producer of the game Simone Harari Baulieu, with TV leisure. “We would have liked it to continue but we understand that France Télévisions be in a situation of budgetary restrictions and efforts requested from everyone. It’s up to us to adapt ourselves ”she continued.
“A particularly constrained budgetary context”
At the end of June, France Télévisions announced the abolition of the daily newspaper for champion, “In a particularly constrained budgetary context”.
This decision had been strongly denounced by the host of the game since 2016, Samuel Étienne. Several deputies had also written to the president of the audiovisual group Delphine Ernotte, to inform them of their “Deep emotion” Faced with this choice, and ask him to come back to his decision.
