“It had been three weeks since his wife, Nathalie Marquay, watched over him day and night at the Georges Pompidou hospital where he had been hospitalized not for his lung cancer which he was apparently in the process of overcoming, but for a series of other health problems, in particular small strokes in February, an open heart operation from which he had recovered well before a sudden worsening of his general condition having forced him to fall asleep at the very beginning of the week “, explained Isabelle Morini-Bosc.
The journalist then paid tribute to Jean-Pierre Pernaut, recalling the audiences of his last JT on TF1 to 8.130 million viewers. “It’s more than an audience, it’s a symbol. That of the bond that Jean-Pierre Pernaut had managed to weave with the faithful of the 1 since 1988. “
Tribute on TF1
On Wednesday evening, the TF1 channel paid a vibrant tribute to its former emblematic presenter, with a special edition of the 8 p.m. dedicated to the journalist at the end of the newspaper. 6.1 million viewers followed this tribute from 9 p.m. to 9:50 p.m. (25.5% of the public).
TF1 even shook up its programs for the evening to pay tribute to him, by broadcasting the documentary “Jean-Pierre Pernaut, a history of French television”, directed by journalist Michel Izard and broadcast just after the special edition of 8 p.m. This documentary was followed by 2.8 million people until 10:45 p.m.
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