Have Canal+ subscribers “have been” forced “to watch CNews?

Faced with subscribers forced to look at CNews to escape a black screen, Canal+ is white as snow. Nevertheless, This is at least what Mediapart reveals in an article published this Friday, June 20, after having received testimonies from subscribers. Therefore, In particular that of Marion who. However, in the summer of 2024, then temporarily deprived of access to the bouquet channels, was encouraged by customer service at “Leave the TV on on the CNews channel. Furthermore, ” Specifying that his “Rights will be reactivated within 19 to 40 minutes”.

Marion, confused, decides not to apply these tips and not to let CNEWS light. Surprisingly. she still finds the signal about twenty minutes latersuggesting that the procedure indicated was only intended to increase the chain’s hearing. Other subscribers such as Marion entrusted on forums having lived the same experience.

On have canal+ subscribers “have been” the Canal+site. it is indeed indicated that it is enough to leave its decoder “Light on the channel 4 for an hour”to find access to the service, indicates Mediapart, and according to our checks (see photo below). Philippe. another user, says he has contacted customer service who also confirmed to him that connecting to Canal 4 or Any other channel was also working.

The management of Canal+ says it has advised subscribers the CNews channel so that they “cannot be faced with. a black screen“. CNews would be the only chain which. “beyond being a clear chain in French, a chain not encrypted on the satellite“.

If this explanation is. according to Mediapart, plausible for people equipped with decoders or channel boxes, The media wonders about users receiving the encrypted channels by their connected television. Why did the latter also received this message. when, in their case, the restoration of have canal+ subscribers “have been” rights is carried out automatically via the Internet, without going through a satellite signal or requiring television on a particular channel?

If for some the mystery remains. for others, the process is sewn with white thread, since the chain belongs to the Canal+group, itself controlled by Vivendi, group of the billionaire Vincent Bolloré.