During the summer, Arcom announced the channels that will make up DTT
from 2025. The opportunity to briefly celebrate the departure of C8, but
to note the continuation of Cnews, and the arrival of new channels that
do not promise any improvement. ---- On July 24, the Audiovisual and
Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) made an expected
decision: the selection of applications for the fifteen DTT channels,
whose concessions will be reallocated or renewed in 2025. Expected,
because out of fifteen channels, six were attached to the Canal+ group,
owned by Vincent Bolloré, including C8 and Cnews, direct tools of the
billionaire's project to fascise the media. Two channels that have
accumulated 47 reprimands and sanctions from Arcom since 2012, and more
than 8 million euros in fines: racist, sexist, homophobic,
climate-sceptic remarks[1]...
In recent months, many voices have been raised against the renewal of
their concessions. It is finally C8 that will disappear from the
screens. The channel hosted Touche pas à mon poste, Cyril Hanouna's show
that concentrated the majority of sanctions. C8 has since filed an
appeal with the Council of State, and Cyril Hanouna has dedicated a
large part of his broadcasts over the last three months to trying to
convince his audience that they were the victims of a terrible
injustice, or even a political cabal. Cnews, on the other hand, remains
in place. A decision justified by its lower number of convictions, and
by a desire for "political pluralism".
Musical chairs between billionaires
This argument of pluralism is also the one used to explain the new
arrivals within TNT: OF TV and Réels TV (the NRJ12 channel has also lost
its frequency, for economic reasons), and we will not be disappointed.
The first is an offshoot of the largest regional daily press group in
the country, the Ouest-France group, whose initials it takes. It
promises us "Life, in real life" in soothing clips. It can at least
boast of not belonging to a billionaire, a trait that is rare in the
French media landscape.
It is especially Réels TV that has caught the attention. The project is
led and supported by Daniel Kretinsky, a Czech billionaire who has
already invested heavily in the paper press in France: Elle, Marianne,
Usbek & Rica... His group Czech Media Invest (CMI) owns eleven magazines
and a publishing house. He was also a major shareholder in the Le Monde
group before selling his shares to Xavier Niel in 2023. In short, yet
another billionaire wanting his own little media empire.
But rest assured, Kretinsky is a nice billionaire, who says he wants to
invest in the media to "fight against populism", "a completely civic
decision". A speech given in France, while in the Czech Republic, his
group's media have taken an ultra-conservative, nationalist and
climate-sceptic turn since 2019[2]. A turn that may have started to take
hold in France in 2021 with the launch of Franc-Tireur, a conservative
and ultra-liberal newspaper financed by Kretinsky and led in particular
by Caroline Fourest and Raphaël Enthoven. A cast that we will find as
figureheads on Réels TV, in shows that promise to "elevate the debate".
Needless to say, we can't wait.
N. Bartosek (UCL Alsace)
Validate
[1]Le Monde has listed these sanctions: Adel Miliani "New fine against
Cyril Hanouna: find all the Arcom sanctions against C8 and CNews", Le
Monde, July 25, 2024.
[2]Jean-Baptiste Chastand, "The controversial conservative shift of
Daniel Kretinsky's Czech media", Le Monde, November 15, 2019
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Television-Au-revoir-C8-bonjour-Reels-TV
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from 2025. The opportunity to briefly celebrate the departure of C8, but
to note the continuation of Cnews, and the arrival of new channels that
do not promise any improvement. ---- On July 24, the Audiovisual and
Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) made an expected
decision: the selection of applications for the fifteen DTT channels,
whose concessions will be reallocated or renewed in 2025. Expected,
because out of fifteen channels, six were attached to the Canal+ group,
owned by Vincent Bolloré, including C8 and Cnews, direct tools of the
billionaire's project to fascise the media. Two channels that have
accumulated 47 reprimands and sanctions from Arcom since 2012, and more
than 8 million euros in fines: racist, sexist, homophobic,
climate-sceptic remarks[1]...
In recent months, many voices have been raised against the renewal of
their concessions. It is finally C8 that will disappear from the
screens. The channel hosted Touche pas à mon poste, Cyril Hanouna's show
that concentrated the majority of sanctions. C8 has since filed an
appeal with the Council of State, and Cyril Hanouna has dedicated a
large part of his broadcasts over the last three months to trying to
convince his audience that they were the victims of a terrible
injustice, or even a political cabal. Cnews, on the other hand, remains
in place. A decision justified by its lower number of convictions, and
by a desire for "political pluralism".
Musical chairs between billionaires
This argument of pluralism is also the one used to explain the new
arrivals within TNT: OF TV and Réels TV (the NRJ12 channel has also lost
its frequency, for economic reasons), and we will not be disappointed.
The first is an offshoot of the largest regional daily press group in
the country, the Ouest-France group, whose initials it takes. It
promises us "Life, in real life" in soothing clips. It can at least
boast of not belonging to a billionaire, a trait that is rare in the
French media landscape.
It is especially Réels TV that has caught the attention. The project is
led and supported by Daniel Kretinsky, a Czech billionaire who has
already invested heavily in the paper press in France: Elle, Marianne,
Usbek & Rica... His group Czech Media Invest (CMI) owns eleven magazines
and a publishing house. He was also a major shareholder in the Le Monde
group before selling his shares to Xavier Niel in 2023. In short, yet
another billionaire wanting his own little media empire.
But rest assured, Kretinsky is a nice billionaire, who says he wants to
invest in the media to "fight against populism", "a completely civic
decision". A speech given in France, while in the Czech Republic, his
group's media have taken an ultra-conservative, nationalist and
climate-sceptic turn since 2019[2]. A turn that may have started to take
hold in France in 2021 with the launch of Franc-Tireur, a conservative
and ultra-liberal newspaper financed by Kretinsky and led in particular
by Caroline Fourest and Raphaël Enthoven. A cast that we will find as
figureheads on Réels TV, in shows that promise to "elevate the debate".
Needless to say, we can't wait.
N. Bartosek (UCL Alsace)
Validate
[1]Le Monde has listed these sanctions: Adel Miliani "New fine against
Cyril Hanouna: find all the Arcom sanctions against C8 and CNews", Le
Monde, July 25, 2024.
[2]Jean-Baptiste Chastand, "The controversial conservative shift of
Daniel Kretinsky's Czech media", Le Monde, November 15, 2019
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Television-Au-revoir-C8-bonjour-Reels-TV
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