French television channels will be turned upside down from March 1, 2025. C8 and NRJ12 have definitively lost their standoff with Arcom, the public authority which renews or not the authorizations to broadcast channels every 10 years. Real TV, project of the Czech billionaire and owner of the Editis publishing group, Daniel Kretinsky, will therefore arrive on the small screen, just like Ouest-France TV, carried by the regional press group of the same name.
However, there remains one last battle for the last two of TNT since the channels will be reassigned a new numbering. A real game of musical chairs in perspective which could see the birth, for example, of a thematic “news” block, bringing together BFM TV, LCI, CNews and France Info.
Finally, the group Canal, for its part, announced at the beginning of December that it would leave paid DTT in June in reaction to the non-renewal of its C8 chain, which will release button number 4 of paid DTT for the 70,000 households who subscribed to it.
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