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The TF1 and France Télévisions groups dream, thanks to this game of musical chairs, of the creation of a “thematic news block”, therefore of an increase from LCI (channel 26) and Franceinfo (channel 27) to BFMTV ( number 15) and CNews (number 16). “The regulator is carefully considering this option. The most likely hypothesis is that we are moving towards the creation of a block of continuous information channels,” indicated Roch-Olivier Maistre, president of Arcom who will leave his position in February, when he was heard by the Senate Culture and Education Committee in October.
“The public interest is two things, the material comfort of handling the remote control and the organization of programs, not going fishing in a complex way,” added Roch-Olivier Maistre.
“The public interest is not to change the numbering,” retorted Nicolas de Tavernost, president of RMC-BFM and vice-president of CMA Média, during a conference organized by the company NPA Conseil, before estimate: “It is only in the Gospel that the first are last and the last are first. »
