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This Thursday, December 5, Canal + announced its withdrawal from TNT. An announcement which attracted other channels to have the very popular channel 4.
An earthquake. While Canal + had just celebrated its 40th anniversary on TNT, the channel announced that it will leave TNT from June 2025. The group justifies its decision with three reasons via a press release, “an increase in tax paid to the CNC, threats on the VAT rate which is directly linked to its status as the leading financier of French cinema and finally the decision to withdraw from C8, the leading TNT channel.”
The Canal+ group announces the withdrawal of its pay channels from DTT (Canal+, C+ Cinéma, C+ Sport, Planète+), in particular to protest against the withdrawal of the frequency of C8 (press release) pic.twitter.com/ZthHVYcLNW
— Adrien Franque (@AdrienFranque) https://twitter.com/AdrienFranque/status/1864718429434916932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
This radical decision gives ideas to other channels who wish to recover this popular channel 4. Several scenarios are now possible.
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A great opportunity for Réels TV
On July 24, the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom) announced that the channels C8 and NRJ12 had not been selected for the reallocation of new TV frequencies in 2025. Since then, the channel war has started. Réels TV, channel of billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, was preselected by Arcom for TNT. After Canal +'s announcement, President Christopher Baldelli welcomed this decision. “It’s an opportunity not to have the last channel number” he confided to Les Échos. The channel is expected to begin broadcasting from March 1, 2025.
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Express TV remains on the lookout
Alain Weill is attentive to this news even if the Express TV application was refused by Arcom. The owner of the media sent a letter to the French television police in which it is written “the L'Express group remains a candidate for obtaining a free TNT channel for its L'Express TV project as part of the call for applications currently being examined.”
C8 and NRJ 12: still potential candidates
Why not imagine that the withdrawal of Canal + ultimately allows C8 and NRJ12 to remain on TNT? Although the Council of State rejected the appeal of the two channels on November 15, they are still awaiting the reasons for their non-preselections. The absence of the encrypted channel changes the situation and leaves a free channel. “This is only a first battle,” the lawyers of the two channels promised at the end of their hearing on November 15.
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