C8 seizes the Council of State after the lack of its DTT frequency | EUROtoday
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CWill 8 get a second likelihood? Vincent Bolloré's channel, which misplaced the renewal of its TNT frequency for 2025, is “firmly” against this resolution and has introduced that it’s taking authorized motion. In a press launch, Canal+, proprietor of C8, has indicated that it’s taking the matter to the Council of State for interim aid. Last July, the listing of the reallocation of the fifteen TNT frequencies was revealed by the audiovisual regulator, with out C8 and NRJ12. These two channels will probably be changed by small information objects from the press: Ouest-France TV and RéelsTV.
The channels nonetheless within the operating will solely receive their broadcasting authorization after signing new agreements with the regulator, by the top of the yr. But C8 most well-liked to take the lead, contemplating that its state of affairs “is particular in view of the economic, social and competitive issues generated by this decision for an existing television channel established in the audiovisual landscape for nearly twenty years.”
ALSO READ Cyril Hanouna proclaims he’s submitting a criticism towards Arcom for “harassment” According to the channel's proprietor, “Arcom's decision not to pre-select C8 is a serious offense to the channel and is irreversible in that it excludes C8 from the negotiation phase of the agreements with Arcom which should lead to the granting of authorizations.”
“Deep injustices”
According to the group, by shedding its DTT frequency, C8 is struggling “profound injustices”. It believes that, by way of this resolution, Arcom has above all “intended to sanction the channel because of its “failures” related to the broadcast Don't touch my post “The Authority has already closely sanctioned C8 because of this and there was no cause to punish it once more, within the fully completely different context of the frequency allocation course of, a fortiori by way of a call as disproportionate as a pure and easy eviction from the screens,” regrets the proprietor of C8.
C8 is essentially the most sanctioned channel of the PAF, with 7.6 million euros of tremendous because of the excesses of its star presenter, Cyril Hanouna, in Don't contact my put up. Because of those a number of sanctions, the channel had dedicated to broadcasting this system on a delayed foundation. “It would not be acceptable if C8 could not ask the Council of State to prevent such a massive and disproportionate attack on the very existence of the company,” which has 300 workers, the group additionally argues.
NRJ12, with low audiences and primarily programming reruns, additionally introduced on Wednesday that it was referring “the matter to the Council of State for interim relief and on the merits to obtain respectively the suspension and then the cancellation of the Arcom pre-selection measure”.
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