France: : CSA authorises LCI channel to shift to free DTT

• Autores: Amélie Blocman
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 2, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a decision made public on 17 December 2015, the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) has decided to allow the TF1 group’s continuous news channel LCI to broadcast on free DTT, overturning its decisions made in 2011 and again in 2014 (see IRIS 2014-8/22). Its most recent refusal had been cancelled by the Conseil d’État on the grounds of formal defect, since the CSA had not published its impact study in good time (see IRIS 2015-7/15). At the end of a further cycle of analysis in accordance with the procedure recalled by the Conseil d’État, the CSA considered that ‘the LCI channel had ceased to have an economic future in the pay-TV environment and that access free of charge would contribute to diversity and was in the public interest’.