Nicolas de Tavernost, chairman of the management board of the M6 group. VINCENT BOISOT/Le Figaro
DECRYPTION – The bosses of M6 and Free were interviewed by Arcom.
For Xavier Niel, president of Iliad, parent company of telecom operator Free, the morning promises to be busy. This Wednesday, February 15, the eighth fortune of France is preparing to present its television channel project, facing M6, before the media regulator, Arcom. It takes place within the framework of the procedure of renewal of attribution of the channels 1 and 6 of the TNT, whose authorizations of exploitation expire on next May 5th. Xavier Niel is the first to take his big oral, at 9:15 a.m. sharp. And in the meantime, on RTL, the radio group M6, Philippe Caverivière plays the room drivers. “Xavier Niel believes he is a little bit in” Deal concluded “”jokes the comedian.
At 17e floor of the Mirabeau tower, where the Arcom has taken up residence in the 15e arrondissement of Paris, the atmosphere is much more serious. Flanked by four collaborators, Xavier Niel, dark suit, open white shirt and leather shoes, goes on the offensive. “My concern is that…
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