Arcom pays tribute to the statement of case of Gabriel de Broglie, former Chairman of the Commission nationale de la communication et des libertés (French National Commission for Communication and Freedom)

Arcom Chairman Roch-Olivier Maistre and the members of the Arcom Board were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Gabriel de Broglie, former Chairman of the Commission nationale de la communication et des libertés (CNCL), forerunner of the French Superior Audiovisual Council (French Superior Audiovisual Council), now the French regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication (Arcom).

Gabriel de Broglie, a Conseiller d'État, was a member of several ministerial cabinets until the early 1970s, before devoting most of his career to the audiovisuel sector. He was successively Deputy Director General of ORTF (1971-1974), Director General of Radio-France (1975-1979), then Chairman of INA from 1979 to 1981.

In 1982, Alain Poher, then president of the French senate, appointed Gabriel de Broglie to the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA), which in 1986 became the Commission Nationale de la Communication et des Libertés (CNCL), which he chaired from 1986 to 1989, a period marked by the rise of private broadcasting.

Gabriel de Broglie, a connoisseur of the media and a lover of the French language, played an active role in the regulation of this new audiovisual landscape.

A man of letters distinguished on several occasions by the Académie française, an institution to which he was elected in March 2001, Gabriel de Broglie will be remembered as a writer of the highest calibre, deeply attached to freedom of expression.

Arcom associates itself with the grief of his family, to whom it sends its most sincere condolences.