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On 22 October 2012 the Conseil d’Etat judge sitting in urgent matters rejected the application made by Canal+ under the urgent procedure for the suspension of the decision by the competition authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) on Vivendi Universal and Groupe Canal Plus taking exclusive control of TPS and CanalSatellite. It will be remembered that the decision of the Minister of the Economy on 30 August 2006 authorised the companies Groupe Canal Plus and Vivendi Universal to gather together within the company Canal Plus the activities of the pay television channel TPS and of the Canal Plus group....

On 3 July 2012, the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) authorised six new free-view high definition (HD) channels on terrestrially-broadcast digital television (HD1, L’Equipe TV, 6 ter, Tvou la Télédiversité, RMC Découverte, Chérie HD). On 24 July 2012, in the presence of representatives of the channels, the authority drew lots for allocating numbers to these six new channels, which are to start broadcasting on 12 December 2012. The new numbering is the result of firstly the allocation of the logical numbers 1 to 29 to the national television services previously...

In a decision handed down on 29 June 2012, the Conseil d’Etat (France’s highest administrative jurisdiction) has cancelled for a second time the rating certificate for Lars von Trier’s film Antichrist, which prohibited showing it to anyone under 16 years of age. In France, the showing of films in cinema theatres is subject to obtaining a rating certificate (visa d'exploitation) from the Minister for Culture, on the opinion of the Film Rating Board (Commission de Classification des Oeuvres Cinématographiques). The Board may issue a certificate authorising the showing of a film to any audience, a...

The face-off involving the two rival channels Edonys and Deovino, both of which focus on the culture, practices and art of wine, has finally reached a conclusion. In its decision of 11 July 2012, the Conseil d’Etat (France’s highest administrative jurisdiction), to which the matter had been referred by the company Media Place Partners (Edonys), pronounced the cancellation of the convention that the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) had agreed with Deovino. Edonys (“the international vine and wine channel”) had already referred the matter to the Conseil...

After the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) in July 2012 (see IRIS 2012-8/26), it has been the turn of the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) to authorise - “subject to conditions” and “in the light of the undertakings subscribed to by Canal Plus” - the latter’s purchase of the channels Direct 8 and Direct Star. This closes the long round of negotiations between the French pay television giant and the independent administrative authorities, which wanted above all to prevent the group from being able to disturb the balance of the market...