Raymond Marcillac

Biography

After a childhood passed to Aveyron, it returns to Paris to carry out its higher learning. It practiced the athletics with the French Stade, discipline which makes it possible to him to carry to five recoveries the colors of the French selection, it was a champion of the 400 m hedges. It began also a career from journalist to the radio.

Officer in aviation, it takes part in the war in 1939-1940, then during the Occupation, it puts the possibilities of displacement of its trade at the service of French resistance. Into the Release, Maurice Schumann, integrates it in its team into French Broadcasting (rtf). It joined the world of television and becomes there one of the specialists in the fields of the policy and the sport. It is him which follows the arrival of the Général de Gaulle to the town hall of Paris on August 26th, 1944, and from now on with rtf it covers the political events until its nomination on September 12th, 1958, at the position of director of the sporting emissions, first owner of the service of the sports of rtf.

It is there at the origin of discovered new talents, such as Leon Zitrone, Roger Couderc, later Thierry Roland. It creates also the emission Télé Sunday in January 1959, ancestor of the great Sunday emissions in France, combining sports and songs, it accepted there personalities like Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Kopa. The emission comprised a télécrochet the Play of the chance , precursor of the Star Ac' , it will be able to give their chance to Mireille Mathieu, Georgette Lemaire and Thierry the Lad - 6 times victorious by interpreting airs of operettas, it made there its first political imitation, that of Jacques Chaban-Delmas. The same year, Raymond Marcillac plays his own part in the film Rue of the meadows .

In 1961, it presents the tv news and launches, with the assistance of the founder of the daily newspaper the Team Jacques Goddet, the emission the Slides of the exploit , first emission of sport of the history of French television. This magazine made up of reports will remain with the antenna during one decade. He was director of the information of TF1 (at the time “first chain of the ORTF”) of April 1963 to 1965. He sees himself then charged to prepare the press coverage of the Winter Olympics of 1968 with Grenoble.

After the events of May 1968, it finds a raised station on television, considered as indéboulonnable, thus it was general amazement when it is laid off television in 1972, under an obscure pretext of clandestine Publicité. It will have been always denied these charges, affirming that “… took part of the settling of score, because it there forever nothing have in the files”. He was explained some in one entitled book With you, Cognacq-Jay! lower parts of the radio and television . He will be also the author of other books, of which Chronique of television .

He will occupy later a position of director of the programs with Radio Montmartre.

Deliver

With you Cognacq-Jay! Lower parts of the radio and television , ED. J. Grancher, 1994 (ISBN 9782733904428)

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