The legal response begins from the disappointed television channel editors after the blow to the head. Less than two months after the announcement that the digital terrestrial television (DTT) frequency would not be renewed in 2025, the C8 channel announced in a press release on Thursday, September 19, that it had referred the matter to the Council of State. a temporary suspension to appeal the decision of the audiovisual regulator. The day before, on Wednesday, September 18, the NRJ group had done the same for the NRJ12 channel, whose broadcasting license expires on February 28.
At the end of July, the Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority (Arcom) listed the pre-selected candidates for the reallocation of fifteen television frequencies in 2025, including the two new entrants, RéelsTV (from the CMI group, owned by Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky) and OFTV (Ouest France group), but not the two outgoing companies, C8 and NRJ12. The former has received a total of 7.6 million euros in fines and about thirty sanctions since 2012, while the latter’s programming is supported by rebroadcasts aimed at a very low audience.
A subsidiary of Vivendi, whose majority shareholder is ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, believes so “Deep injustices” In Arcom’s unprecedented decision. C8 specifically accuses the regulator of redefining “as he wishes” idea “in the public interest” and wear” “a massive and disproportionate attack on the company’s existence”Having 300 employees and “many production companies he collaborated with” for almost twenty years.
“The primary necessity of pluralism”
“Everything indicates that there is a climate of hostility at Arcom College towards the channel and the types of programs it broadcasts. C8 cannot tolerate such a lack of objectivity and impartiality.”Writes the Canal+ group. Another failure, the NRJ group said in a press release on Wednesday, ” decision ” not keeping your channel among the pre-selected “I am already complaining (…), This justifies the referral to the administrative judge without waiting for Arcom to publish its final decisions.”.
Another candidate disappointed by Arcom’s decision, the radical left Web TV Le Média, also regrets the decision. “lack of transparency” process of “preselection” and announced on Friday, September 13, its intention to take the matter to administrative courts.
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