Yves Calvi

Yves Calvi (born Yves Krettly on August 30, 1959) is a French journalist and television presenter.

Early career and education

Yves Calvi was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. He graduated in modern literature and was a former student at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.^[1] He decided to change his family name and take the pseudonym of his father, composer and conductor Gérard Calvi, when he joined Radio France Internationale in 1986 and before joining France Info.^[2] He was close of one of the founders of France Info and joined him in 1994 when he rectified the station RMC and then Europe 1 two years later.^[2]

Radio career

After becoming a television presentor on the local channel Télé Lyon Métropole, Yves Calvi became the familiar voice of the station Europe 1. He presented for six seasons the discovery radio program Forum from 1996 to 2002. He also presented for six seasons a morning part from Monday to Friday and an afternoon part on Sunday. He then presented for two seasons the program Europe Midi from 2003 to 2005. In September 2005, he left Europe 1 to become again a television presenter.

Yves Calvi joined France Inter in September 2007 in the new team to produce and present the new program Nonobstant from Monday to Friday. In 2008, he refused an offer from RTL that proposed him to present the morning program, he preferred pursuing on presenting his own television programs. In August 2010, after leaving France Inter, he joined RTL to host a daily interview titled Le choix d'Yves Calvi,^[3] pursuing his collaborations with France 5 and France 2.

Television career

Since September 2001, he hosts C dans l'air on France 5, a television program about news debate. In September 2005, after leaving Europe 1, he presents again the bimonthly political program Mots croisés on France 2, succeeding to Arlette Chabot, the new news director of the channel who created the monthly political program À vous de juger broadcast on the first part of the evening. Yves Calvi co-hosted the program Le grand tournoi de l'histoire on December 27, 2006 and on February 20, 2007 on France 3.

In April 2008, he questioned the French president Nicolas Sarkozy during a special program hosted by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor and David Pujadas. In direct at the Palais de l'Élysée, this program is broadcast on both TF1 and France 2. In June 2009, at the World Environment Day, he presented on France 2 the broadcast of Home, a documentary film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, and then hosts a debate titled Comment sauver la planète ?.^[4] In January 2010, he co-hosted with other presenters of France Télévisions the program Pour Haïti to help the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake broadcast on France 2 and France Inter.^[5]

Bibliography

• Yves Calvi and Gilbert Bodinier, Souvenirs historiques du capitaine Krettly, Paris, Nouveau Monde editions, June 2003, 284 pages (ISBN 9782847360219)

References

External links

• Biography of Yves Calvi on the official site of RTL (French)
• Yves Calvi on the official site of France 5 (French)