The musical chairs continue on BFMTV. After leaving for TF1 by Bruce Toussaint, management announced that Maxime Switek, already a journalist on the news channelwould now present “the big info event on the mornings of BFMTV Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.”, according to the press release published Thursday November 2, 2023. So place “a house talent” as described by the channel’s general director, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, in comments reported by the newspaper The Parisian. Since 2020, Maxime Switek has hosted the 10 p.m.-midnight slot with his show 10 p.m. max. Funny coincidence or career plan, Maxime Switek was appointed to replace Bruce Toussaint, on this night time slot. The paths of the two men had already crossed a few years earlier on Europe 1. From 2011 to 2012, Maxime Switek presented the 7:30 a.m. news on Bruce Toussaint’s morning show.
Maxime Switek, a career in the news
The journalist, aged 43, made his debut on radio. After winning the Lauga-Delmas Scholarship, a competition organized by Europe 1he joined the radio in 2005. He will present the 6 p.m. news there until 2011. After a quick passage in the morning of Bruce Toussaint, he will become presenter of the 6:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. news. At the same time, the journalist from Hauts-de-France decided to go into television. From 2013, we will find it on the screen on France 5 In C to you. He will present the column there 5 out of 5alongside Anne-Sophie Lapix first, then Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, until her departure in 2020. In addition to her position as columnist, Maxime Switek also chose to pursue her career on Europe 1. From 2014 to 2018, he will take the lead from Europe 1 weekend succeeding Benjamin Petrover, then Europe noon, before leaving the station permanently at the end of the 2018 season. He will therefore have followed a faultless course upon leaving his studies. His young age and his difficult to pronounce name earned him a few jokes from his colleague, Nicolas Canteloup, in his column The review of almost by Nicolas Canteloup in 2013. On the personal side, Maxime Switek is the father of a little boy born in 2013 from his union with his wife, whose name he prefers to keep quiet.