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Why you would have liked to see a new broadcaster instead of M6? This makes me wonder if M6 as a broadcaster has a poor reputation in France

It reminds me of the Channel 5 era under RTL and Richard Desmond.  Largely downmarket, reliant on reality formats and US imports.

There are of course exceptions, but I'm hoping M6 will use their commitment to provide programming that is more than what they're doing now.

As I mentioned previously, M6, even with its downmarket output, has a pretty good reputation with French audiences. In 2012, a Télé-Loisirs (equivalent of the TV Times) survey placed M6 at the top of viewer loyalty.

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M6 is also regarded as the most profitable of channels, and more recently a "to-go" channel for sports; currently, the 10 most watched shows in the channel's history are all football matches (with the record being for the Euro 2016 final, which M6 broadcast exclusively).

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After seeing the verdict, Xavier Niel didn't waste any time to put a quite sarcastic reaction on his Twitter:

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