10-02-2023, 12:22 AM
The license challenge race for Canal+ is underway. On Thursday's France Inter morning news programme Le 7/9.30, Nicolas Demorand and Léa Salamé interviewed French Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak, and announced that C8 and CNEWS' licenses are under review, and their licenses might be not renewed when these are up in 2025. The rationale of this is due to the many cases and fines given to the channel by the Arcom due to the controversial and politically-biased content aired on C8's evening access show, Touche pas à mon poste !, as well as CNEWS' shift to right-wing punditry and clash-ridden roundtable shows.
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The Arcom hasn't still spoken out on the situation, but CNEWS wasted no time on taking its own sides on the situation:
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The Canal+ Group also spoke out, going against Abdul Marak's words and accusing the Ministry of Culture of "denying the credibility and proving of their channels"; they also accused her of "not respecting the Arcom's independence". These worlds were also echoed by Senate VP Roger Karoutchi, but in his case resorting to the facts (the Arcom is legally an independent, government-approved regulatory and competition authority, much like Ofcom) rather than tackling the controversy in a political way.
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This might be the perfect moment for Xavier Niel to attempt a challenge to both channels. Given he's doing so with TF1 and M6, and he had already announced to bid for Canal+'s LCN in the 2025 franchise hearings, there's no reason he couldn't also target C8 and CNEWS. Niel had attempted already to buy CNEWS during their strike in 2016, when it was still called i-Télé. He did it with another billionaire involved in media, Mathieu Pigasse, majority owner of Les Inrockuptibles and Radio Nova, and was also part owner of Le Monde newspaper and Mediawan, both ventures in which Niel is also involved. The rationale for the acquisition was the declining ratings during the then-ongoing strike, alongside the start of the shift to right-wing punditry with the hiring of Jean-Marc Morandini and the installation of an editorial team close to Bolloré. The bid by Niel and Pigasse, whose goal was to return i-Télé to its looser, younger-oriented format of its heyday, was turned almost immediately down by the Canal+ Group.
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The Arcom hasn't still spoken out on the situation, but CNEWS wasted no time on taking its own sides on the situation:
www.ozap.com
The Canal+ Group also spoke out, going against Abdul Marak's words and accusing the Ministry of Culture of "denying the credibility and proving of their channels"; they also accused her of "not respecting the Arcom's independence". These worlds were also echoed by Senate VP Roger Karoutchi, but in his case resorting to the facts (the Arcom is legally an independent, government-approved regulatory and competition authority, much like Ofcom) rather than tackling the controversy in a political way.
www.ozap.com
twitter.com
This might be the perfect moment for Xavier Niel to attempt a challenge to both channels. Given he's doing so with TF1 and M6, and he had already announced to bid for Canal+'s LCN in the 2025 franchise hearings, there's no reason he couldn't also target C8 and CNEWS. Niel had attempted already to buy CNEWS during their strike in 2016, when it was still called i-Télé. He did it with another billionaire involved in media, Mathieu Pigasse, majority owner of Les Inrockuptibles and Radio Nova, and was also part owner of Le Monde newspaper and Mediawan, both ventures in which Niel is also involved. The rationale for the acquisition was the declining ratings during the then-ongoing strike, alongside the start of the shift to right-wing punditry with the hiring of Jean-Marc Morandini and the installation of an editorial team close to Bolloré. The bid by Niel and Pigasse, whose goal was to return i-Télé to its looser, younger-oriented format of its heyday, was turned almost immediately down by the Canal+ Group.
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