On July 24, ARCOM announced the deletion of two DTT channels: C8 and NRJ12. The deletion should be effective on February 28, 2025, which will upset the plans of Cyril Hanouna who will have to find a revisited way of proposing Don’t touch my post to his fans. The channel filed an appeal with the Council of State, before receiving a very clear answer. “This preselection list (…) does not constitute an award for the candidates appearing there, nor rejection of their candidacy for others. This list of pre-selected candidates, which is an Arcom practice and is not provided for by law, does not constitute the outcome of the DTT frequency allocation procedure. (…) Arcom can only really reject an application when it has definitively chosen to retain another and this definitive choice can only take place at the end of the negotiation of the agreement which must accompany the ‘authorization to broadcast’, replied the Council of State.
Soon the last of Touche pas à mon poste?
“Arcom can thus still choose, even after the publication of such a list, to end the negotiations initiated with one of the preselected candidates or to begin them with another candidate not included therein.“, added the Council of State. What gives hope to the host? Perhaps. He seemed in any case to be sure of himself this Tuesday, December 3 in Touche pas à mon poste since he was in able to support some of his assertions. “On December 19, it will be the last of TPMP… of the season“, he first said. Then to confirm that his show will continue next January.
“There is a good chance that it will last a long time”
Teasingly, he told his columnists, assuring them that they will be back: “I’m going to have to make budget cuts. I’m not kidding. But it doesn’t matter, we all play the game”. Bernard Montiel admitted to him that he “hope to stay here”because he has “pleasure pleasure to find all [les chroniqueurs]”. For her part, Valérie Benaïm was full of praise for Cyril Hanouna. “I have unshakeable faith in you, I follow you wherever you go if you want to. Furthermore, I find that there is something that is admirable, it is that you have developed what I would call a umbrella theory, that is to say that you take all the blows and you protect us because you don’t show anything and we have the feeling that everything is fine”she detailed.
And to conclude: “As we have no power over what will happen, we follow you and we have faith in you”. Touched, Cyril Hanouna then made some reassuring confidences for his show. “There are a lot of people who come to see me and say: ‘Cyril you are not going to abandon us’. Of course, it is you who can abandon me because it is you who decide every night if you want to watch us or not”, he began by reminding. Then to resume optimism: “As far as I am concerned, I will do everything to be there with you and know that there is a good chance that it will last a long time”. “Thank you, because it’s thanks to you, all the good things that happen to us, it’s thanks to you every day who watch us because if this affair comes to a successful conclusion, it’s above all thanks to the viewers” , concluded the columnist.
