An agreement without consideration from one side and totally disagree with the other. The negotiations opened by Altice, the parent company of BFMTV, RMC Découverte and RMC Story with Orange and Free have turned into a fiasco. Alain Weill, the CEO of Altice, has tried to step into the breach opened up by TF1 and M6, with an idea: to get, to turn a compensation on the part of telecoms operators that offer its television channels on their box. Last year, the groups TF1 and M6 had actually bend the operators. So, why not him? On this simple idea, it is launched to the attack of two monsters, demanding 4 million euros to Free and nearly $ 10 million in Orange. But, he has broken the teeth. “Is not TF1, which wants to”, says a protagonist. This season in the media, while Marc-Olivier Fogiel, the new boss of BFMTV, was trying to talk about his new grid, the screens went out one after the other. Free has …

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