The first time that the NRJ group set foot in television was in 1986. The TV6 experience lasted three hundred and sixty-four days-M6 had succeeded him on Canal 6. The NRJ 12 adventure, started in 2005, has been extended for twenty years. By confirming, Wednesday, February 19, the decision of the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) not to grant it new dissemination authorization on TNT, the Council of State enters the extinction of its signal, scheduled for February 28 at midnight.
Saturday 1is Mars, telechat enthusiasts, fans of multidiffus documentary series A season at the zoo and the fanatics of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory (More than four hours in a row of broadcast announced for one on February 22, eleven hours for the other) will have to find asylum on another channel.
But much more, perhaps, than in its followers (more or less 5 million people look at it more than ten seconds each day, a market share of 1 % in 2024), it is the group itself that the small entertainment chain will miss the most. Deprived of NRJ 12, NRJ could indeed, as its leaders have already affirmed, put on sale of Chérie 25, the other channel which it operates on TNT and whose frequency expires in 2027.
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