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Article Mosaique dans le Monde
"Plus de deux millions d'immigrés regardent Mosaïque", Le Monde, 12-13 mars 1978. Archives Tewfik Farès © Médiathèque Abdelmalek Sayad

Broadcasting on FR3 for 90 minutes every Sunday morning between 1977 and 1987, Mosaïque was a magazine show which invited groups of diverse origins to perform live, while also showing reports on their countries of origin and the immigrant communities living in France. It was originally intended to celebrate the different cultures brought to France by immigrants, but also to bring them to a wider audience.

And yet, the programme was never funded by the public broadcaster because it was considered to be too focused on a specific audience, and thus not sufficiently “public interest.” Its budget was covered by the Ministry for Labour, via a subsidy from the National Office for the Cultural Promotion of Immigrants, the ONPCI – which later became Information on Culture and Immigration, ICEI, in 1977, then the Agency for the Development of Intercultural Relations, ADRI, in 1982).

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