Strengthening the visibility of parasport in the audiovisual media: follow the "Jouons Ensemble" 2025 campaign

Published on 03 October 2025

  • Disability
  • Sport
  • Paralympics
  • Accessibility
  • Social cohesion
  • Television
  • Radio

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    Arcom's "Jouons Ensemble" (Let's play together) campaign, running from October 4 to 12, 2025, encourages the audiovisual media, radio and television, to give more space and airtime to parasport.
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    Improving the portrayal of disability and the accessibility of audiovisual programs and digital content is one of Arcom's core missions, and its action in this area has grown over the years.

    Arcom's action is focused on three main areas:

    1. Accessibility of digital programs and content.
    2. Representation of the disabled on the air.
    3. Professionalintegration of disabled people in audiovisual industry companies.

    Learn more about Arcom's mission to promote the rights of people with disabilities

    Operation "Let's play together" 2025

    Media coverage of parasport not only helps to strengthen the on-air presence of people with disabilities, but also to change the way people look at disability.

    Organized by the Authority since 2021, in partnership with the French Ministry of Sports and the Ministry for Autonomy and Disability, the 2025 edition of the "Jouons Ensemble" parasport media campaign will be held this year from October 4 to 12.

    Throughout the week, the media will be mobilizing to promote the inspiring careers of parasport athletes and demonstrate that sport is a powerful vector for transformation towards a more inclusive society.

    Arcom brings publishers together

    On Thursday, October 2, 2025, Arcom organized a progress report on the subject in the presence of Martin Ajdari, Chairman of Arcom, Laurence Pécaut-Rivolier, member of the College and Chair of the "Protection des publics et diversité de la société française" working group, the Ministers of Sport and Autonomy and Disability, as well as representatives of the audiovisual media and associations.

    Jouons ensemble, réunion de travail, jeudi 2 octobre 2025 © Arcom Jouons ensemble, réunion de travail, jeudi 2 octobre. © Arcom

    Working meeting on the "Jouons Ensemble" 2025 operation, at Arcom headquarters, Thursday, October 2, 2025. ©Arcom

    Programming announced by TV and radio stations

    Publishers have been invited to send Arcom the programming they plan to put on during the operation from October 4 to 12, 2025.

    Below are the schedules announced by TV channels and radio stations.

    Alexis Hanquinquant will be the guest of honor on Stade 2 on October 5. The program will also feature a documentary on the French Riviera Open wheelchair tennis tournament in Biot, with an angle on the difficulty of developing attitudes to parasport and an interview with tournament director Michael Jeremiasz.

    • Wednesday October 8, a fashion show by 33 amputees at Roland Garros stadium, for Matthieu Lartot's "Debout en bouts" association, will be broadcast live on France.tv and will be the subject of a documentary in the "Tout le Sport" program.
    • On Friday October 10, France Télévisions will be covering the "Special Olympics" (adapted sport) athletics meeting in Eaubonne, which will be the subject of a documentary on the following day's "Tout le Sport" program.

    • On Saturday October 4 and Sunday October 5, Radio France will be covering the French Riviera Open in Nice, organized by Michael Jeremiasz.
    • the 4th edition of "Demain le sport", organized by Radio France at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, in partnership with France Télévisions and l'Equipe, on the theme of "New breath", will bring together athletes and para-sporters for a round-table discussion on inclusion through sport, featuring Alexis Hanquinquant, para-triathlete, Marie Patouillet (paracyclist) and journalist Matthieu Lartot (himself disabled). The event is free and open to all upon registration.
    • On Wednesday October 8, Radio France will be covering the fashion show organized by Matthieu Lartot and his association "Debout en bouts", featuring some thirty people fitted with prostheses.

    More generally, newspapers and news programmes will also be paying particular attention to the challenges surrounding parasport, with tickets to be made provision for.

    Diffusion portraits with Nantenin Keita (para-athletics), Aurèle Guenerie (para-judo), as well as Zakia Kuhdadadi and Sophie Caverzan (both para-taekwondo).

    Coverage of the World Para-Athletics Championships, which continue through to the weekend of October 4 and 5.

    M6 will show portraits of para-athletes on its 12:45 and 7:45 news broadcasts.

    • October 4 or 5 Hakim Aretzki, Paralympic cecifoot champion
    • on Saturday October 11, Dorine Bourneton, a paraplegic aerobatic pilot.

    The Gulli channel will show episodes of the animated program "Bandes de sportifs" devoted to para-badminton, cecifoot, wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball.

    These programs will also be available on M6+, the Groupe M6 platform.

    On the radio :

    • on Sunday October 5, RTL's Matinale will show an ODOXA survey on the relationship between "The French and para-sport".
    • On Sunday October 5, Michaël Jeremiasz, organizer of the French Riviera Open and spokesman for para-sport, will be the guest on "On refait le sport".

    • On Saturday October 11, parasport will be at the heart of an episode of the "Mondial Sport" program on RFI.
    • Friday October 10 RFI will also be present at the "Media Day" of the French Paralympic team taking part in the Winter Gaming in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.

    RFI will report on the French para-surfing center in Finistère. In France 24's sports columns, several editions will be devoted to parasports, with portraits of parasporters or people committed to the practice of parasports:

    • Milena Surreau, para-badminton player present at the Paris Games (October 7 at 6:50 p.m.);
    • Nathalie Pechalat, president of the "Premiers de cordée" association (October 8, 6:50 p.m.);
    • Chris Ballois, disabled kitesurfer and world kitesurfing speed record holder (October 12 at 9:15pm).

    Last but not least, Monte Carlo Doualiya will be giving parasport pride of place throughout the week in its daily sports bulletins, as well as in its dedicated programs such as "Top Sport".

    The group is first making several documentaries available in a special stratum of the MyCanal application:

    • Pauline Déroulède: Impossible
    • Ksenia Chasteau: Rebonds
    • Axel Allétru: Holeshot, un virage pour la vie (Holeshot, a turn for life)
    • Flesh and STEEL
    • Inarrêtable : Bethany Hamilton
    • We are people
    • Legendary eleven

    He will also be covering the French Riviera Open, of which he has been a partner since 2018. The 4 finals (women's singles, men's singles, women's doubles, men's doubles) will be shown on Saturday, October 4 from 1pm on CANAL+ Live 11 and slightly deferred on CANAL+ Sport 360 and on Sunday, October 5 from 1pm on CANAL+ Sport 360 (available to all CANAL+ subscribers).

    Dedicated sequences are also scheduled throughout the week in the "CLUB 360" show (daily co-broadcast on INFOSPORT+ and CANAL+ Sport 360 from 6pm to 9pm):

    • Monday October 6: review of the previous weekend's French Riviera Open tournament, with Michael Jérémiasz on duplex, as well as a duplex with Marie-Amélie Le Fur, President of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee;
    • Tuesday, October 7: diffusion of a report on Cécikart;
    • Wednesday, October 8: diffusion of a soccer report on the OM amputee team;
    • Thursday, October 9: diffusion of a more general topic on accessibility to sports facilities, using the example of the Champions League match between PSG and Atalanta on September 17;
    • Friday October 10: diffusion of a documentary taking stock of Handisport, an invitation to paracyclist Alexandre Léauté to appear on the show, and a duplex with Arthur Bauchet, para-ski champion and France's main medal contender at the forthcoming Paralympic Winter Gaming Games.

    Last but not least, reports and features on the theme of parasport will be shown throughout the week on INFOSPORT+ and CANAL+ SPORT 360.

    These include

    • a feature on paracyclist Alexandre Leaute ;
    • a feature on parasnowboarder Maxime Montaggioni;
    • features recorded by Léo Tassel, special envoy to the French Riviera Open. This journalist specializing in disability issues will bring a more in-depth look at the issues surrounding handisport.

    RMC Life will show episodes of the "Portraits de Sportives" series devoted to female para-athletes:

    • Alexandra Saint-Pierre ;
    • Cécile Hernandez ;
    • Céline Gerny ;
    • Mandy François-Elie ;
    • Nelia Barbosa.

    In addition, on Saturday October 11, Cécile Hernandez, multiple Paralympic medallist and former RMC consultant for Paris 2024, will be the guest on the program "Les Grandes Gueules du Sport" on the same channel.

    Finally, on Saturday October 4, the RMC Story channel will show an episode of the short program "Engagez-vous", dedicated to the Team Jolokia association, which each year puts together a sailing crew including people from all walks of life.

    Find the right sports facility near you

    The HandiGuide des sports, created in 2006 on the initiative of the French Ministry of Sports, is an interactive directory of sports facilities that declare they welcome or are able to welcome disabled sports enthusiasts. It enables disabled people to find out about the sporting supplies available to them, based on the possibilities available in the sporting environment near their place of residence.

    To find out which sports and physical activities are suitable for you and your disability, use the Handiguide des sports.

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