The businessman could be a TNT frequency candidate currently used by M6. The chain, which wishes to continue to enjoy it, must have reviewed its emergency strategy.
by Aude Dassonville
ra, won’t go? In terms of audiovisual, the suspense this Monday, January 23, was to turn around Xavier Niel: the owner of Free (and shareholder on an individual basis of the world) will he try to blow his frequency in M6? Last Monday, the businessman has taken a final stage by asking the Arch, the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (ex-CSA), the email address where to send him, in accordance with the procedure arrested, an application file. That he refrains today to use it seems unlikely.
For Mr. Niel, who demonstrated twice last year his desire to seize the 48.3 % of the capital that RTL Group has in the M6 group, the occasion is unique. This is the first time since 1987 and the authorization granted to TF1 and M6 to operate these state properties free of charge, that the two channels must actively request the law “for the use of the radioelectric resource” necessary for ” edition of a television service “. Despite the boom in other reception methods, TNT still constitutes, for around 20 % of French households, the only mode of access to television.
Several reasons to take the six in hunting rather than the front page was served on a set to the founder of Iliad by the news in recent months: not only the owner of M6 has just sought to get rid of it – First of all hoping to merge it with TF1 then trying to sell it -, but the one who is supposed to be the best defender of the interests of the chain in front of the Arch, the president of the board Nicolas de Tavernost, did everything to ensure that these operations are successful. The 72 -year -old leader “will find it difficult to swear his hand on the heart he wants to engage for the next ten years”, persifishes one of his competitors.
“This n ‘ is not very serious “
With the vice-president of the Management Board Thomas Valentin, the Patriarch of the French audiovisual, nevertheless struggled last week to renegotiate new commitments with the actors of the audiovisual sector. “They got it extremely late, which is not very serious,” criticizes a producer.
The signature by TF1, on January 12, of a “new partnership agreement” for three years with representatives of the sector – a renewal of its previous commitments, for the most part – gave the feeling that the pressure s ‘accentuated on M6. In particular, the front page renews its commitment to finance the creation of heritage works up to 12.5 % of its turnover. “It was important that we renew our agreement, which brought investments in French fiction to 200 million euros per year,” said one of the beneficiaries of the partnership. “The appearance of a financial commitment in the independent documentary represents a considerable advance for us,” adds Vincent Gisbert, the general delegate of the SPECT (Union of producers and creators of television programs).
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