French TV

[London Lite]

It'll come as no surprise that Altice have acquired La Chaîne Normande where it'll rebrand as a BFM local channel.

Now there's an issue where currently La Chaîne Normande doesn't broadcast to Le Harve on TNT because the local transmitter provides two sub-regions of France 3 Normandie on the same mux used for regional tv and also doesn't serve Caen, so internet distribution will be as important as linear for this new channel.

[Medianext.MX]

Earthquake surrounding the French version of RT (which is designed for domestic broadcast in France): Frédéric Taddeï, the former presenter of France 3's Ce soir (ou jamais !) has resigned from the channel and from its cerebral interview show, Interdit d'interdire. During an interview with FigaroLive, the video portal of Le Figaro, he cites the Ukrainian crisis as the factor for his resignation; additionally, he denounced RT France's director general Xenia Fedorova of censorship. He has additionally joined CNEWS and Europe 1 as its culture correspondent, starting with this weekend's coverage of the Cannes Opening Ceremony on Europe 1.

The full story here.

[DamC]

This morning's 8:30 political interview on Franceinfo: was hosted from Réunion La Première's studio as Jean-Luc Mélenchon is currently visiting the island.

The two interviewers Salhia Brakhlia and Hadrien Bect have flewn in from Paris

https://twitter.com/franceinfo/status/14...3272009733

[London Lite]

This morning's 8:30 political interview on Franceinfo: was hosted from Réunion La Première's studio as Jean-Luc Mélenchon is currently visiting the island.

The two interviewers Salhia Brakhlia and Hadrien Bect have flewn in from Paris

https://twitter.com/franceinfo/status/14...3272009733

It says it all when the 8.30 Franceinfo backdrop looks better from a green screen in Réunion than from the tv/radio studio at Radio France.

[DamC]

Here's the verdict on the TF1 and M6 yard sale:

TFX and 6ter will be sold to Altice Media. And Paris Première will be taken off the TNT. TF1 and M6 will then have only seven channels, the maximum they can own to have their merger approved. Obviously, this is not the only hurdle, but it's a major one.

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/..._3234.html

The channels will only be sold if the TF1/M6 merger is approved by the authorities. If it all goes through, Altice Media will become the third largest broadcaster in terms of market share (9,5% for the year 2021), behind the new TF1/M6 group and France Télévisions.

[Roger Darthwell]

I don't know if anyone realized this, but today is M6's 35th anniversary, here is the video of the launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u_LPDb5zo8
The day before TV6 was closed after a year of broadcasting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqhn3xFESSM

[Medianext.MX]

I don't know if anyone realized this, but today is M6's 35th anniversary, here is the video of the launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u_LPDb5zo8
The day before TV6 was closed after a year of broadcasting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqhn3xFESSM

The launch of M6 was meddled by a massive controversy on the then-nascent French commercial TV industry: after then-president Mitterrand named opposition leader Jacques Chirac as prime minister due to the outcome of the legislative elections in March 1986, he took the decision to change the regulatory organ, and, additionally, re-tender the two commercial channels launched the year before: La Cinq (owned by Mediaset and Chargeurs) and TV6, owned by a consortium of French advertising group Publicis, the NRJ Group, the Gaumont studios and the Gilbert Gross branding agency. Under the direction of Canal+ founder Léo Scheer, they wanted to attract a younger audience with lots of music and heavily interactive shows, as well as TV series and movies drawn from the Gaumont library, some never before seen in France.

With the audiovisual reform of 1987, TV6 was overthrown by M6, a decision which was heavily criticized, and even leading to heavy suspicions of political meddling (Chirac was close to the director general of Lyonnaise des Eaux, one of the shareholders of the new channel, alongside RTL). TV6 closed to heavy popular reaction, even leading to a mass protest in the Elysée. It was too late.

When M6 launched, its programming was an exact copy of RTL Télévision's programming content, featuring family-friendly shows and a focus on American imports; however, due to its poor coverage and woes about complying with its license, the channel switched to a more music-dominant line-up and premiered the look designed by Étienne Robial which became synonymous with the channel. After La Cinq closed, the channel began having a place in the crowded audiovisual market.

To deep further, here's a documentary which talks, among others, about this rocky process, Télévision (histoires secrètes), from 1995:

[Roger Darthwell]

[quote="Roger Darthwell" post_id=70829 time= user_id=1160]
I don't know if anyone realized this, but today is M6's 35th anniversary, here is the video of the launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u_LPDb5zo8
The day before TV6 was closed after a year of broadcasting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqhn3xFESSM

The launch of M6 was meddled by a massive controversy on the then-nascent French commercial TV industry: after then-president Mitterrand named opposition leader Jacques Chirac as prime minister due to the outcome of the legislative elections in March 1986, he took the decision to change the regulatory organ, and, additionally, re-tender the two commercial channels launched the year before: La Cinq (owned by Mediaset and Chargeurs) and TV6, owned by a consortium of French advertising group Publicis, the NRJ Group, the Gaumont studios and the Gilbert Gross branding agency. Under the direction of Canal+ founder Léo Scheer, they wanted to attract a younger audience with lots of music and heavily interactive shows, as well as TV series and movies drawn from the Gaumont library, some never before seen in France.

With the audiovisual reform of 1987, TV6 was overthrown by M6, a decision which was heavily criticized, and even leading to heavy suspicions of political meddling (Chirac was close to the director general of Lyonnaise des Eaux, one of the shareholders of the new channel, alongside RTL). TV6 closed to heavy popular reaction, even leading to a mass protest in the Elysée. It was too late.

When M6 launched, its programming was an exact copy of RTL Télévision's programming content, featuring family-friendly shows and a focus on American imports; however, due to its poor coverage and woes about complying with its license, the channel switched to a more music-dominant line-up and premiered the look designed by Étienne Robial which became synonymous with the channel. After La Cinq closed, the channel began having a place in the crowded audiovisual market.

To deep further, here's a documentary which talks, among others, about this rocky process, Télévision (histoires secrètes), from 1995:

[Kunst]

Too bad TV6 was ruined by corruption.

M6 is slightly less bland than TF1 (another ruined brand, thanks to privatization), but still rather bland.

TV6 could've been what Channel 4 is for the UK, now

[Roger Darthwell]

Sorry if I only mention this now, but does anybody know what is the song playing during the countdown to M6's launch?

[AxG]

Sorry if I only mention this now, but does anybody know what is the song playing during the countdown to M6's launch?

Images - Corps à corps

[London Lite]

Sorry if I only mention this now, but does anybody know what is the song playing during the countdown to M6's launch?

[Roger Darthwell]

Thank you very much [mention]AxG[/mention] and [mention]London Lite[/mention]

[London Lite]

LCI newsreader and former anchor of TF1's lunchtime bulletin Jean-Pierre Pernaut has passed away today after going into a coma. He was 71.

Pernaut had lung cancer.

[Roger Darthwell]

LCI newsreader and former anchor of TF1's lunchtime bulletin Jean-Pierre Pernaut has passed away today after going into a coma. He was 71.

Pernaut had lung cancer.

WHAT??? I had no idea he even had cancer! This is so so sad, may he RIP!