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Vivendi’s Controversial French C8 Channel Loses TNT Frequency In Bombshell TV Authority Decision
C8 had racked up close to €7.6M in Arcom fines on various counts of lack of honesty and political plurality in recent years.
Controversial French free-to-air channel C8, a subsidiary of Vivendi ’s Canal Plus Group, is set to lose its TNT frequency, following a bombshell decision by France’s Arcom audiovisual and digital communication authority. C8, which is home to the controversial populist presenter Cyril Hanouna and his provocative chat show Touche pas à mon poste, has racked up close to €7.6M in Arcom fines on various counts of lack of honesty and political plurality in recent years. Arcom said in a note accompanying the preselection list that its decision had been taken in “the interest of each project for the public with regard to the priority imperative of pluralism of socio-cultural currents of expression.”
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