“I call your sense of responsibility and general interest to avoid depriving hundreds of thousands of homes in reception of all TNT channels,” urges Rima Abdul Malak in a letter Addressed Friday to the president of the Canal+group, Maxime Saada.
Le Monde with AFP
The Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak asked the Canal+ group to restore the dissemination of TF1 channels on its TNT SAT offer which allows you to receive TNT channels in areas where the hertzian coverage is bad.
“I call your sense of responsibility and general interest to avoid depriving hundreds of thousands of homes in reception of all TNT channels,” urges Rima Abdul Malak in a letter Addressed on Friday to the president of the Canal+ Maxime Saada group, which the France-Presse agency was able to consult, confirming information from Parisian .
This ministerial request came after Canal+ ‘decision to stop broadcasting the free channels of the TF1 group (TF1, TMC, TFX, TF1 Films and LCI series) during the renewal of the distribution contract between the two parties, in Reason in particular of the requirement of a payment “of a very substantial remuneration”, announced on Friday September 2 the group held by Vivendi.
“situation not in conformity”
“Without interfering in the commercial dispute which opposes the two groups and a negotiation which falls under contractual freedom”, the minister explains to be “attentive to that the negotiations between publishers and distributors do not lead to blockages likely to compromise Access of all audiences to the free offer of digital terrestrial television “(TNT).
Now, “The TF1 group’s channel signal cut on the TNT SAT offer deprives people who can only receive TNT by satellite from all access to the five free channels of the TF1 group”, underlines Rima Abdul Malak.
And “this situation does not comply with the intention of the legislator which was to guarantee full coverage of the territory by TNT by obliging TNT channels to provide their free signal available to a satellite distributor who In fact the request, “she recalls.
Tollé
Before the signature in the forceps of the previous contract at the end of 2018, discussions between the two groups had fired in the trade conflict: refusing to pay to be able to broadcast chains also accessible free of charge via TNT, Canal+ had decided to cut the time Diffusion of TF1 to its subscribers, causing an uproar in certain viewers.