''Télématin'' is a French

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news show, broadcast on

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since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in

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weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am

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. TV5 broadcast the show in

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in its 150-minute entirety until September 2011: since then, a shortened 90-minute version is shown between 6:30 and 8:00 am

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. ''Télématin'' has been hosted for its entire run by

William Leymergie William Leymergie (born 4 February 1947 in Libourne) is a French journalist television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news show '' Télématin'', broadcast on public broadcaster France 2 and TV5 in Canada. ...

, who also serves as the show's producer. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France,

newscast News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or tele ...

s are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are

Nathanaël de Rincquesen Nathanaël de Rincquesen, born Nathanaël de Willecot de Rincquesen on 9 March 1972 in Paris is a French journalist and Television presenter, TV presenter. Biography A former student of college ''Langevin-Wallon'' at Saint-Gratien, Val-d'Oise ...

Sophie Le Saint Sophie Le Saint (born 22 July 1968) is a French journalist and television presenter. From November 1998 to July 2019, she was a presenter on channel France 2 hosting '' Télématin'' and as a replacing presenter at the '' Journal de 13 heures'', a ...

, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.

External links

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