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Nonce Paolini
Nonce Paolini, 14 September 2010 in Paris.

Nonce Paolini, born on April 1, 1949 in Ivry-sur-Seine and died on July 17, 2024 in Paris,[1] was a French business executive.

After serving as the deputy general manager of Bouygues Telecom, France's third largest mobile phone operator and a subsidiary of the Bouygues Group, he was appointed as director general on May 22, 2007 and then as chairman and chairman and director general of the TF1 Group on July 31, 2008 (the Bouygues Group being the main shareholder). He left his position in February 2016, succeeded by Gilles Pélisson.

Biography

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Paolini's family is originally from Nice. He attended Lycée Montaigne (Paris),[2][3] holds a Master's degree in literature, and graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (class of 1972). He began his professional career at public companies Électricité de France (EDF) and Gaz de France (GDF), where he held various responsibilities.

In 1988, he joined the French industrial group Bouygues, where he became director of human resources, and in 1990, director of external communications. In July 1993, he became the group's human relations director for TF1 Group.[4] From 1999 to 2001, he held the positions of internal communication director and deputy general manager of the group, which was built around TF1, a commercial terrestrial television channel privatized in 1987.

In January 2002, he joined Bouygues Telecom, the telecommunications operator and subsidiary of the Bouygues Group, to become its deputy general manager. In April 2004, he became Bouygues Telecom's managing director and administrator.[5]

From July 2002 to March 2005, Paolini chaired the association Médiation Télécom (AMET), an organization mediating between clients and landline and mobile phone operators.

On February 20, 2007, Patrick Le Lay proposed to separate the roles of president (which he would keep) and general manager of the group, assigning it to someone else. On May 22 following, Paolini was named general manager of the TF1 Group by its board of directors. Étienne Mougeotte, then vice-president of TF1, had to leave his role as director of the group's broadcast and program divisions in August.

On July 31, 2008, Paolini was appointed president-director general of the TF1 Group, replacing Patrick Le Lay who left the presidency while keeping his position as an administrator. He took office on August 25. In this capacity, his annual salary was made public by TF1 and amounted to €1,300,000 in 2008.

In 2015, he was often cited in the media for having dismissed Claire Chazal, who presented TF1's weekend news programs for 24 years.[6][7]

On February 17, 2016, Paolini stepped down in favor of Gilles Pélisson.[8]

In May 2022, he spoke out to denounce the actions of TF1's star presenter, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, defending himself against a charge of covering up a system of sexual violence.[9]

Private life

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He is married for the third time to Catherine Falgayrac [fr], one of the presenters of the show Téléshopping [fr] on TF1, and has three daughters from two previous unions.[10]

Decorations

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References

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  1. ^ "Nonce Paolini, l'ancien patron de TF1, est mort". Le Figaro (in French). 17 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Nonce Paolini, l'homme qui doit réinventer la Une". Les Échos (in French). 22 May 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Nonce Paolini, nouveau pape de TF1". Le Point (in French). 22 May 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  4. ^ Aude Dassonville (18 July 2024). "La mort de Nonce Paolini, « Bouygues Boy » indéfectible et ancien PDG du groupe TF1". lemonde.fr. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Nonce Paolini, retour gagnant à TF1". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Nonce Paolini à propos de Claire Chazal : "il faut savoir passer la main"". Europe 1 (in French). 11 September 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  7. ^ Média, Prisma (11 September 2015). "Claire Chazal : Nonce Paolini lui parlait de son départ « depuis plusieurs mois » - Voici". Voici.fr (in French). Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  8. ^ TF1: après le bilan mitigé de Nonce Paolini, les défis de Gilles Pélisson
  9. ^ "Affaire PPDA : l'ancien patron de TF1 Nonce Paolini réagit pour la première fois]" (in French). Europe 1. 11 May 2022.
  10. ^ Raphaël Garrigos; Isabelle Roberts (22 May 2007), Nonce Paolini: le nouveau cerveau disponible de TF1 (in French), Libération
  11. ^ Decree of July 13, 2007 on promotions and appointments