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Emmanuel Macron’s success in the presidential election on 7 May 2017 has added further fuel to the challenging of the principles of audiovisual regulation and observance of political diversity in the media. With the prospect of the parliamentary elections on 11 and 18 June 2017, the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) issued a decision on 23 May 2017 laying down the total broadcasting times allocated to each political party or grouping for the upcoming parliamentary elections, and specifying their number and duration. Contesting the amount of time...

On 18 May Cyril Hanouna, the highly popular presenter of the television programme ‘Touche pas à mon poste’ - which attracts nearly one million viewers every evening - ‘trapped’ a homosexual live after posting a fake advertisement on a dating site. The hoax caused controversy, and the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) received more than 25,000 complaints defending LGBT rights from viewers and associations who had been shocked by the sequence. Under Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986 as amended, the CSA is required to “ensure that the programmes...

The dispute between Playmédia and France Télévisions will perhaps enable the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to clarify implementation of the ‘must-carry’ requirement. France Télévisions had called on the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) to cancel the order issued by the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) to comply with the provisions of Article 34(2) of the Act of 30 September 1986 and to refrain from opposing its programmes being streamed and carried live by the company Playmédia on its website. France Télévisions claimed that the...

An Order adopted on 4 May 2017 has simplified a number of the provisions contained in the Code for Cinema and Animated Image (CCIA), which had not been amended since 2009, and introduced a number of broader reforms. The Freedom of Creation Act of 7 July 2016 authorised the French Government to adopt measures amending the Code without requiring legislation approved by Parliament. The first aim of the text is to simplify the scheme that provides a framework for the activity of cinema theatre operators. A cinema theatre that makes changes will only need to apply for new approval if the changes are...

On 26 April, the plenary assembly of the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) drew up its report on both speaking time and air time during the first period of equality (from 10 to 21 April) in the presidential campaign, and on observance of the ‘period of reserve’. The CSA had noted substantial inequalities during the first week of the period of equality, but noted that radio and television broadcasters had undertaken to correct the imbalance by the end of the first round of the election campaign on the evening of Friday 21 April. On completing its...