M6 METROPOLE TELEVISION: PARIS PREMIÈRE’S FUTURE THREATENED BY THE CSA’S DECISION
July 29 2014 - 10:53AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
M6 Group (Paris:MMT) takes note of the CSA’s decision not to
approve Paris Première’s switch to free-to-air
broadcasting.
Established 28 years ago, Paris Première is a historic channel
that has offered since its creation an ambitious editorial line to
its audience and would have contributed greatly to the diversity of
the French audiovisual landscape as a free-to-air DTT channel.
Paris Première vigorously contests the specific reasons given by
the CSA to account for the ruling concerning the supposed analogies
with existing services. Paris Première reminds having confirmed its
original positioning in the commitments sent earlier to the
CSA.
The switchover of Paris Première to free-to-air DTT was the
opportunity to combine a quality TV offering and financial
equilibrium; the channel’s business model is being jeopardized by
the CSA’s ruling.
This decision is all the more disputable that studies previously
conducted showed that, of all applications submitted, Paris
Première was the channel that would have had the least difficulty
in changing its financing model, which for the record was an
opportunity provided by the law.
As a result, M6 Group disapproves of this decision. Pending the
reply of broadcasting platforms, whose opinion it will seek, the
Group reserves the right to use all means of redress at its
disposal to review the situation thus created by the CSA’s
ruling.
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