[1] During his fifty-year career, he served as Vice-President of TF1 Group and was satellite director of TF1 from 1987 to 2007 alongside Patrick Le Lay.

[3] He was a khâgne student at the Lycée Henri-IV, which prepared him to attend Sciences Po, where he became Vice-President of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France.

Mougeotte began his career with Paris-Normandie [fr] before joining France Inter as a reporter and correspondent in Beirut.

In 1969, he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), presented the newscast Information Première [fr] with Philippe Gildas.

He was responsible for hiring multiple personalities who became prominent news anchors, such as Nikos Aliagas, Arthur, Christophe Dechavanne, and Jean-Luc Reichmann.

[5] However, he remained an adviser to TF1 Group CEO Nonce Paolini [fr], who replaced Patrick Le Lay.

[10] In July 2012, he left his post as editorial director of Le Figaro and was replaced by Alexis Brézet [fr].

[13] In 2015, with Iskandar Safa and Charles Villeneuve, he purchased Groupe Valmonde from Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, which the right-wing weekly magazine Valeurs contemporaine was a part of.