While Arcom decided not to renew the frequency of C8 on TNT, thus leading to the disappearance of the channel in March 2025, a petition was launched so that the audiovisual policeman reverses his decision. The latter is taking on absolutely crazy proportions.
In March 2025, C8, directed by Franck Appietto, must stop broadcasting on TNT following a decision by Arcom.
To counter this decision, Franck Appietto launched a petition which has already collected more than 828,000 signatures, a record on the MesOpinions.com site.
Find out how this massive mobilization could influence the future of C8 and the impact of Arcom's decisions on viewers.
Regularly sanctioned by Arcom in recent years. C8 has increased the number of warnings and formal notices. But also the fines. Finally, the audiovisual policeman decided to take a radical decision by not renewing the channel's authorization to broadcast on TNT. While C8 must disappear in March 2025. Its general director, Franck Appietto, launched a petition to try to save the channel. Which has already collected more than 828,000 signatures.
“This is unheard of! This is the most supported petition in the history of the MesOpinions.com site, created in 2006!. I imagined we would be in the top 3, but certainly not at this level. I suspected it would be a success because I see it everywhere in my life. C8 is a family. And you just need to see the list of signatories and the comments left by nearly 250,000 people to see it. They talk about the endangerment of their channel“, first indicated Franck Appietto.
Franck Appietto: “We have programs that the signatories care about”
“All demonstrate an attachment to the chain in its entirety. By explaining that we broadcast major heritage films, that we have programs that are important to them, from TPMP obviously to William à midi via Le mag qui fait du bien, Les animals de la 8 or Gym Direct”also underlined the manager of C8, in an interview given to Parisian.
“And I spoke some time ago with the president of the SPA, who explained to me that the association had become the second favorite of the French, behind Restos du Cœur, thanks to Animaux à adoption and that it had even broke its adoption record at the end of our first broadcast season“, also clarified Franck Appietto.
Franck Appietto: “This petition shows Arcom that they also sanction C8 viewers”
“We have always said that C8 has the strength to be a channel for all generations. It interests both my parents who are a little older and my godchildren who are rather very young. In any case, it shows Arcom that they also sanction C8 viewers, especially since we have still not received notification of non-renewal and we therefore still do not know why this decision was taken“, also indicated the manager of C8.
“For me, the greatest reward is to see that nearly a million people have mobilized, including older people, for whom it is not necessarily easy to scan a QR Code on the screen or to go to the site. We even have some who say they are ready to take to the streets to support us. As was the case for NRJ in 1984. But we are not there yet!“, finally concluded Franck Appietto.
