TV rights: fault, Canal + cut channels TF1

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As Orange, the Canal + group refuses to pay for the remuneration of TF1 channels through his box.

In a statement issued Friday morning, the TF1 group says "outraged" by "unilateral decision" group Canal +. "This decision is all the more incomprehensible that the Group Canal + is allowed to spread, the TF1 group having never asked that its channels and its replay service are cut, but had instead proposed a continuation of the negotiations", wrote Yet the television property of Bouygues group.

Between TF1 and the operators, the war is on. Remember that the chain now requires that providers pay for the recovery of its signal in exchange of value-added services. The Group has managed to convince SFR and Bouygues Telecom, but Orange, Free and Canal + refused. At the risk of cutting the signal for their subscribers.

If Orange and Free have not yet passed the Cape, Canal + decided to press the stop button. The latter announced in a statement that he interrupted the distribution channels of the Group TF1, for lack of a commercial agreement. Canal + denounces "the financial requirements unreasonable and unfounded" TF1.

"The Canal + Group regretted the deadlock of the negotiations with the TF1 group after 18 months of discussions and is forced to interrupt the channels TF1, TF1 Series Films, TFX, TMC, LCI and services associated with", can be read in a press release.

And add: "the intransigence of the TF1 group, which abuses its power market, and particularly its channel number 1, to impose unilaterally on its distributors, whose group Canal +, pay to continue to broadcast its channels available for free on TNT, and on the Internet. The Canal + Group reaffirms its
wish to disseminate free channels of the TF1 group, but does not pay for these channels."

Since yesterday evening, TF1 channels disappeared bouquets of channel. Subscribers can then read this acerbic message: "the TF1 group now wants to pay its free channels [...] so even these channels are broadcast free on television and on the Internet. This paid circulation would make you pay for access to thesechannels, which we reject."

Obviously, attempts to calm the game have not accomplished. Gilles Pélisson, head of TF1, Martin Bouygues thought a few days ago that negotiations have "reasonable chance of success". "Those are normal discussions between a client and its supplier on a new product and it is progressing well, I am not at all worried about the end of negotiations".

Remains that the big boss Martin Bouygues did not intend to give way: "If you want to buy a luxury car for the price of a Lada, necessarily this may be a problem". A metaphor to illustrate the disagreement between TF1, which considers its channels and enhanced services to justify the payment of an annual payment of tens of millions of euros.

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