Audition by the Senate Senate Commission on the concentration of the media, the two billionaires had released the foils to evoke the TF1-M6 fusion. A “danger for democracy” according to the founder of Free, a necessity for the president of the Bouygues group.
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Once again, they have shown that they would not go on vacation together. Historic enemy brothers, Xavier Niel (shareholder in personal capacity of the world) and Martin Bouygues, who have successively answered the questions of the Senators of the Surveying Commission on the Media Concentration, Friday, February 18, exchanged various kinds by interposed audition .
Without ever named the name of the president of the Bouygues group, Xavier Niel said all the harm he thought of the rapprochement between TF1 and M6. Heard as a result and at a distance because POSITIVE COVID-19, Martin Bouygues has continued the contradiction to the Founder of Free. Xavier Niel, which has increased the remedies against the merger, began with an attack in good standing against the state.
“My country is a great democracy, I believe in his righteousness, but sometimes I have a little doubt in his authorities,” first worshed the businessman. “Even before we auditioned us, the Chairman of the ARCOM [the Ex-CSA] and the Minister of Culture tell us:” All is well, circulate, “he recalled, referring to the first Statements that followed, early 2020, the announcement of the merger project.
“Colossal Financial Risk”
“The President of the Competition Authority,” We’re going to look, “She’s shown. So, at one point, we’re not too confident,” he exclaimed, aiming, Without saying it, Emmanuel Macron himself – that he usually says appreciate. He then took the future brides, the Bouygues and Bertelsmann groups. “The creation of a monopoly, it’s a fantastic thing. Bravo if they arrive there! These are good traders. And the right traders, they want to make money,” mock the billionaire before listing the problems that this marriage posed to him.
In advertising first, he estimated “100 million euros” the likely increase in tariffs. Either a “colossal financial risk” for its Iliad group, important remote advertiser. What to gently smile Martin Bouygues. His tour, the sexagenarian did not fail to specify that in 2020, Iliad had spent “4 million euros” in commercial spots on TF1, a tiny sum of the 1.8 billion euros of gross result of operator’s operation.
“There is still not quite buried,” he tackled. On the contrary, Mr. Bouygues said that the TF1-M6 rapprochement was likely to respond to netflix gigantism and other Amazon Prime Video. “We consider that we are too small, facing actors who worry a lot,” he recalled, taking up an antiphon now known.
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