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The host of “Touche pas à mon poste” paid a quick visit to several dozen demonstrators gathered in Paris to contest the exclusion of C8 from TNT.
Assuring that he is “fighting” for the survival of his show “Touche pas à mon poste”, Cyril Hanouna paid a lightning visit on Wednesday to several dozen demonstrators gathered in Paris in front of the headquarters of Arcom, the audiovisual regulator, to challenge the exclusion of C8 from DTT.
“You know that I am fighting so that we continue and that TPMP continues,” launched the host on the occasion of this gathering organized by Radouan Kourak, journalist from Entrevue.fr and columnist for C8, Aurane Reihanian, ex -LR and current opposition politician from Bourg-en-Bresse, and Michel Taube, CNews columnist and founder of the Opinion Internationale site.
“We will, of course, continue to broadcast until the end of February”, with C8’s broadcasting authorization expiring on the 28th of this month, he insisted. After that, “we are working on other avenues” to continue the program, he said again. “Don’t worry, you’ll have your talk show every night. […] If I go to Canal +, on a new adventure, in the Canal + group (parent company of C8), everyone who worked with me […] will be privileged”, promised Cyril Hanouna to the address of “the technicians”.
“A ludicrous decision”
Canal + management has already announced some 250 job cuts, including 150 linked to the end of C8, according to the group’s inter-union association. Called to reallocate 15 DTT frequencies in 2025, Arcom confirmed last week that those of C8 and NRJ12 would not be renewed.
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“It’s an outrageous decision,” denounced Cyril Hanouna, whose slippages earned C8 a 7.6 million euro fine, a channel owned by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré. “Everything that is currently happening in France is quite incredible,” judged the host, regretting that “we are taking more and more things away from the French” and from the “more than two million” who watch TPMP “every evening “.
Among the demonstrators, Emilie Thelot, 41 years old and member of the Reconquest! by Eric Zemmour, explained to AFP that she had come to defend “freedom of expression”. “It’s important to me that all points of view can be expressed” on television, she said. “C8, with TPMP, guarantees the expression of these different points of view,” she added.
