From June 6, 2025, the continuous news channels BFMTV, CNews, LCI and France Info will occupy numbers 13 to 16 on TNT (digital terrestrial television), and France 4 will succeed Canal + in 4th position, announced Monday January 13, 2025 the regulatory authority Arcom.
This unprecedented change in numbering results from the next shutdown on digital terrestrial television of C8 and NRJ12, decided by the same authority for the end of February 2025. This opened up the possibility of a major upheaval of channels, which will change the habits of viewers.
Game of musical chairs
The most spectacular change concerns the news channels. The leaders BFMTV and CNews, until then numbers 15 and 16, will advance to 13 and 14 in June. LCI (channel 26) and France Info (27, last number of free national channels) will take places 15 and 16.
Previously dispersed, all four will now form a “block of information channels”, in the words of Arcom.
A “more visible” public service
This change is possible because the public channels LCP and Public Sénat, which currently share channel 13, will jump to number 8.
And France 4, the youth and cultural channel of the public group France Télévisions, will leave number 14 to replace Canal + on 4 in June. Thus France 2, France 3, France 4 and France 5 will follow each other “logically”, underlines Arcom in a press release.
Bye-bye Canal
As a reminder, the Canal + group announced the withdrawal, next June, of its four pay channels from DTT (Canal+, Canal+ Cinéma, Canal+ Sport, Planète), in reaction to the non-renewal of the C8 frequency and to “ an increasingly restrictive tax and regulatory environment.
Until now number 18, Gulli, the children's channel of the M6 group, will occupy the place left vacant by NRJ12 in 12th place, which satisfies its managers.
Two new channels coming
In total, eleven DTT frequencies were reallocated in December 2024. Arcom removed two current holders, C8 and NRJ12, and selected two new channels: one launched by the CMI France group, owned by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, the other by West France.
These will begin broadcasting on June 6, 2025 on channel 18 for the first and on September 1, 2025 on channel 19 for the second. Channel 19 has been free since 2020 and the France Ô shutdown. A draw decided between them for these two channels.
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Such a general change is a first since the creation of TNT in 2005 because, until then, the latest arrivals took the latest numbers.
