TF1 will file a criticism in opposition to Canal + within the battle between the 2 channels

TF1 will file a criticism in opposition to Canal +, discovered franceinfo, Monday, September 5, with the tv group TF1, a subsidiary of Bouygues. “We’re not going to let ourselves be taken from the viewers and go away our viewers with out the potential of watching our antennas with out reacting“, says on franceinfo Didier Casas, normal secretary of the TF1 group.

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Canal+, a subsidiary of Vivendi, introduced on Friday September 2 that it will hand over broadcasting the free channels of the TF1 group (TF1, TMC, TFX, TF1 Séries Movies and LCI) in mainland France as a result of industrial necessities deemed too excessive by the subsidiary of Bouygues. In an announcement, the encrypted channel denounced “unfounded and unreasonable calls for” of TF1 as a part of the renewal of the distribution contract between the 2 events.

LIVE – Canal+ has not been broadcasting the TF1 group channels since Friday ➡️ “I’d first like to inform our viewers that we’re sorry. We’re like them taken hostage by the choice of Canal”, reacts Didier Casas, normal secretary of the TF1 group. pic.twitter.com/A07ndQMIGD

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The TF1 group had on its facet “lamented” this resolution, whereas the audiences of its channels are straight affected. The battle additionally took a political flip, when the Minister of Tradition requested Canal + to “to re-establish” the broadcasting of the Bouygues group’s channels on its TNT Sat provide.