In one evening, the French audiovisual landscape (PAF) has completely changed times.
Monday, May 17, the two French heavyweights of free TV and historical rivals, TF1 and M6, announced their intention to merge to build a national champion with a turnover of 3.4 billion.
This new group would be present in free TV, audiovisual production, radio, cinema and free video streaming (My TF1 and 6 Play) and paid (Salto).
For years the two bosses, Nicolas de Tavernost for M6 and Gilles Pélisson for TF1, have been raging against a PAF totally sclerotic by very restrictive regulations and against the emergence of American platforms that siphon digital advertising, such as Facebook and Google, or buy audiovisual rights, like Netflix or Amazon, without being subject to the same obligations as them.
In vain.
Their two major shareholders, Bouygues and Bertelsmann, have therefore decided to shake up the rules of the game and
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