One of the most sensitive issues of the moment is entering its home stretch: the future numbering of television channels. This has never changed since the launch of DTT in successive layers from 2005. The oldest antennas have taken the first places as they are created, while the most recent have the largest numbers. But the announced closure of the C8 and NRJ12 channels on February 28, more than four years after that of France Ô in the summer of 2020, pushes the Arcom (Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication), the sole master of this game, to resolve an unprecedented situation: having to fill holes in the zappette.
“If there is a new numbering, it will be implemented on March 1. But no plan has been finalized to date,” whispers at the audiovisual police, where they say they are only focused at the moment on the finalization of the conventions – that is to say say the new specifications – of the dozen channels which saw their broadcasting authorization renewed this summer. Caution is all the more required at Arcom as C8 and NRJ12 were heard this Friday by the Council of State, before which the two deposed parties contest their exclusion.
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