why the Nicolas de Tavernost-Xavier Niel match already seems folded

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THE MEDIA LETTER. The hearings of the two adversaries and the details of their files should not lead Arcom to overturn the table.

Pair Olivier Ubertalli

Nicolas de Tavernost, chairman of the M6 ​​group management board, and Xavier Niel, founder of Free.
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Published on 02/18/2023 at 3:47 p.m.

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LThe beauty contest for the Channel 6 over-the-air frequency will have a winner in the coming days. Arcom must choose the winner between M6, the group that has held the frequency for thirty-six years and is led by Nicolas de Tavernost, and Xavier Niel, founder of the telecoms operator Free, who wants to be a new entrant in the television with his project Six. Independent of public authorities – and therefore theoretically of political pressure from the Elysée, Matignon or the Ministry of Culture – Arcom will rule by a majority of its nine members.

The decision could be taken in a plenary assembly on one of the next Wednesdays, perhaps the 1^is March, or even as early as February 22. The influence of the president of Arcom, Roch-Olivier Maistre, who followed the…