On September 5 and 6, the college of authority will hear supporters and opponents of the proposed merger between TF1 and M6. Nothing is played.
There are those who will… and those who won’t. On September 5 and 6, the hearings conducted by the college of the competition authority (ADLC) on the TF1-M6 merger project will turn into a veritable chessboard on which the future of French audiovisual will be played. The game promises to be very tight and no one today is able to say what the college’s final decision will be on October 17.
The 12 members of the college, including 5 permanent and 7 from civil society, will first receive the Bouygues group, initiator of the project, Monday morning during a long session to re-explain the position taken by the services of the ‘ADLC, – rather hostile to the operation – but also to take stock of the proposed remedies put forward in mid-August by the Bouygues group. These remedies went through a market test that ended on August 25.
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Then will follow one another in front of the college, the Union of brands (UDM), France Televisions, the Canal + group, NRJ Group, Iliad the operator…
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