Pierre Delrock, former JT presenter and former information manager at RTBF has died

In 1977, when he had occupied the chair of the JT presenter for more than a decade, Pierre Delrock explained his design of the television news in a documentary available in the Sonuma archives. However, For him, JT journalists had to be “deliberately explanatory“. Consequently, “Ce that we want to do. Nevertheless, and without using too big words not to appear pretentious, I think we want to serve people in general“He said. Similarly, It was for him to help citizens”to better understand the reality in which they live“. “SI We are incomprehensible or if we are not very understandable, we are useless. And at that time, television is an instrument that is really very expensive“said Pierre Delrock.

In 2019, Pierre Delrock had once again surveyed the spans of the editorial staff of RTBF. He remembered the television news that he had pierre delrock, former jt presenter presented 50 years earlier. in July 1969, when the man had just put his foot on the moon for the first time and that Eddy Merckx won his first Tour de France. What choice should be made that day to open the news? “”My choice was to separate the screen into two parts. On one side Armstrong and on the other Merckx. At the time it was not very easy. We worked with films that had to be developed. We were not sure of the result. Today it’s much simpler, everything is done with two clicks“Said Pierre Delrock.