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In a decision of 28 September, the commercial chamber of the Court of Cassation settled a dispute between Métropole télévision and the Molotov distribution platform. Métropole télévision, parent company of the M6 group, together with its subsidiaries EDI-TV and M6 génération, operate the television channels M6, W9 and 6TER, which they broadcast free-to-air and free of charge via digital terrestrial television (DTT) and the open Internet (OTT). They allow distributors to include their channels in their pay-TV packages, which are accessible...

On 5 September, Canal+, without giving any notice or warning, ceased broadcasting five channels operated by the TF1 group (TF1, TMC, TFX, TF1 Séries Films and LCI) via TNT Sat (a service that, in particular, enables households that cannot access DTT to receive television channels) following a commercial dispute over a new distribution contract between the parties. The TF1 channels filed a summons for urgent proceedings before the Paris commercial court in order to bring an end to the unlawful disturbance resulting from what they considered a sudden termination of the commercial relationship....

Based on Articles 27 and 33 of the Law of 30 September 1986, the decree of 3 October 2022 extends the temporary authorisation of television advertising for the cinema sector by 18 months, postponing its expiry from 6 October 2022 to 6 April 2024 on account of the unusual nature of the period since authorisation was granted, which has rendered it impossible to fully assess the consequences of the measure. Initially introduced under the decree of 5 August 2020 (until 6 February 2022), the authorisation had already been extended through Article 10 of decree no. 2021-1922 of 30 December 2021 to...

The Canal Plus group and the company C8 asked the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) to annul the decision taken on 3 March 2021 by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory body — CSA, replaced by the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique on 1 January 2022), asking providers of audiovisual communication services to “measure all the speaking time in audiovisual media” of A... B..., Nicolas Hulot, Laurent Joffrin, Arnaud Montebourg and Manuel Valls. The Conseil d’Etat pointed...

On 16 September, Bouygues, RTL Group, TF1 and the M6 group announced that the proposed merger between the TF1 and M6 groups, announced on 17 May 2021, had been abandoned. The merger would have brought seven free-to-air DTT channels (TF1, M6, TMC, W9, Gulli, LCI and TF1 Séries Films) within the same group. The decision comes after the parties were questioned by the board of the Autorité de la concurrence (French competition authority) on 5 and 6 September. Following an in-depth examination, the competition authority noted that television remained a very powerful medium for the French...