A game of musical chairs… According to information from the newspaper “Le Parisien”, at the beginning of November, the L’Équipe group solemnly wrote to Arcom, the regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication, in order to declare its candidacy for the resumption of the frequency of C8 or that of NRJ 12. As a reminder, these two channels should disappear from TNT at the end of February 2025.
The only free sports channel of the PAF
In the article posted online Friday evening on the daily’s website, we can read: “To defend his candidacy, The Team highlights its specificity: being the only free sports channel in the French audiovisual landscape. In a very competitive world, where Canal +, BeIN, DAZN and Eurosport are competing for the rights to the main competitions at high prices, the daily sports channel has managed to carve out a place for itself by focusing on competitions that have long been shunned by the paid broadcasters”.
In this same paper, “Le Parisien”, which was able to access the mail, reports: “The managers of channel 21 say that it would not be ‘illegitimate’ for it to join ‘le bloc info’, the name of the grouping of France Info and LCI, around the fifteenth channel, that is to say at level of BFMTV and CNews”.
“Le Parisien” continues: “Three months after the end of Olympic and Paralympic Games in ParisL’Équipe also advances its status as an independent media group. While NRJ 12 could close its doors, most of the existing channels now belong either to TF1, France Télévisions, M 6, Canal + or BFMTV… By changing ten, the Team hopes to boost its audiences but also its advertising revenues, modest compared to its TNT counterparts. A major argument since the advertising weight of those promoted is one of the criteria on which Arcom must rely to change its numbering.”
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Last week, we explained to you that Nicolas de Tavernost, who today runs BFMTV, RMC Story and RMC Découverte, was annoyed that those who arrived late on TNT wanted “take advantage of the situation to overtake all the pioneers“.
