Editorial: Le Monde

• Two channels of the TNT, C8 and NRJ 12, will stop broadcasting on February 28th due to not getting a renewal authorization.
• The decision of the Audiovisual regulator Arcom has been disputed by C8, owned by Vincent Bolloré and base of the star presenter Cyril Hanouna.
• The campaign to save C8's broadcasting channel has centred more on defending liberties than on jobs.
• Controversy surrounds insinuations that the decision was influenced by an alliance between the general secretary of the Elysée, Alexis Kohler, and the former head of Arcom, Roch-Olivier Maistre.
• The controversy comes within a larger framework of a right-wing ideological offensive disputing law regulations.
• C8 infringed its convention allowing private actors temporary use of public goods, leading to numerous sanctions.
• Cyril Hanouna has announced his move to the M6 group from September to present a daily program on W9, also on TNT.

Conclusion: C8 was not a victim of a political conspiracy, but rather of its own violation of conventions and rules that resulted in its sanction.

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