Last June, journalist Catherine Matausch announced that she had lung cancer to explain her long absence from the air. Back, she faces a new blow, professional this time.
Bad news for Catherine Matausch. Absent from television news for several months, the journalist and presenter of 12/13 and 19/20 on France 3 explained herself, last June, in the columns of TV Major Channels. She announced that she had faced serious health problems, including lung cancer. “In my case, fortunately, the disease is not at the same stage and was treated in time”she said, referring in particular to the case of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, who died last March of the same disease, who had made the decision not to hide anything from his audience and to speak about his cancer. “It’s good to talk about it the way he did. I’m talking about it here for the first time”, she pointed out. However, if she specified in passing that she was going to from now on “good”and even “better”Catherine Matausch now has to deal with another blow.
During the France Télévisions press conference, Wednesday July 6, 2022, the group’s president, Delphine Ernotte, announced that after thirty-six years of good and loyal service, national television news 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. on France 3 were going to disappearand this, from September 2023. Instead, 24 regional newspapers will be broadcast on the air, “embodied by 24 faces of the regional branches of France 3”said Delphine Ernotte, who specified that it would be “the end of a story that is obviously very difficult for the teams”. Especially for Catherine Matausch, who was quick to speak out on this announcement.
The “great sadness” of Catherine Matausch
It must be said that the journalist has a great history with the channel, where she arrived in 1982. After passing through the regional branches, particularly in Picardy, where she presented the regional newspaper, she joined the national editorial staff of France 3 in as a reporter in 1987. “Trying to fall asleep when you have just learned of the end of 19/20 and 12/13 in September 2023 on France 3. So many questions”wrote Catherine Matausch on Instagram, while she presents these two television news on weekends, since 2004. “I feel great sadness for all the teams, we don’t have the words”she added to Teleramaemphasizing the “true viewer loyalty”with whom she tied “a special relationship, simplicity and closeness in tone”. “We are a family, and we have always made the necessary efforts”, she assured. For the moment, no details about his professional future have been revealed.