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It will necessary wait until:
A countdown has engaged in TV for the world: with the reform of the five -year clause. For example, M6 remains legally unsoldable until April 2028. Meanwhile, Enough to repel any connection with TF1 and redesign the balances of the television landscape in the longer term.
Adopted at second reading in the Senate as part of the Lafont bill. Meanwhile, the reform of the “five -year clause”, which supervises the resale deadlines for TNT frequencies, could well constitute a strategic milestone in future consolidation movements of the French audiovisual landscape. Consequently, In particular. Therefore, it could condition any attempt to bring together M6 and TF1, a scenario which is still envisaged by the two parties, despite a blockage in 2023.
The it will necessary wait until provision passed by the senators confirms the reduction in the transfer period of five to two years for. the newly authorized TNT channels. But -. it is crucial – this reform is not retroactive: it only concerns the six permits to come in 2027 for the HD TNT Bloc, and not the chains whose frequencies have already been renewed, such as TF1 and M6, respectively in 2023 and 2024. Another important clarification: in multi -hole groups, the applicable time is that of the main channel, which free concerned.
A pivotal date for M6: April 2028 – It will necessary wait until
In this context, the date of April 27, 2028 becomes a key to a key point. This is the end of the five-year period imposed on M6, the new authorization of which was granted on April 27, 2023. Until then. the chain cannot be sold without losing its TNT frequency, which makes any structuring project it will necessary wait until legally and economically impossible, in particular with TF1.
Philippe Bailly. founder of NPA Conseil, underlines in his analysis posted on LinkedIn, that this provision “ lock any serious perspective of consolidation around M6 before this deadline ». And to add: ” The text adopted by the Act Senate that no shortcut will be possible. neither by retroactivity, nor by a flexible rereading in the case of a group with several chains. »From spring 2028. a shooting window will open again for M6, which can then legally be sold without condition linked to its frequency. It remains to be seen whether the economic. competitive and political conditions will then be met to relaunch a merger project, which had failed in 2022 under pressure from the competition authority.
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