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On 19 July 2017, when it examined the possibility of extending the authorisation to broadcast granted to the television channel TF1, the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - “CSA”) announced that it was allowing the group’s request that the general rules governing advertising spots laid down by decree in 1992 should apply: the relevant Decree authorises commercial breaks during television news programmes that last more than thirty minutes. This would make it possible to introduce advertising, but observing the present limit of twelve minutes of advertising...

The saga of the reform of media chronology - the rules that define the operating windows for films shown via various media (cinemas, DVD, pay and freeview channels, video on demand, etc.) - is entering a new phase thanks to the efforts of the Senate’s Committee on Culture. The various windows specific to each mode of operation are laid down in an extended agreement within the industry (signed on 6 July 2009 by thirty-five parties) and in legislation governing cinemas and pay-per-view video. Operators in the cinema sector, as well as consumers, want to see quicker access to films. What is more,...

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...