However there is a shadow in this table pay DTT

Launched end of March 2005, the TNT held all its promises 35 of French households could receive free of charge, in addition to the 7 existing TV channels, 7 additional channels. The digitization of the wireless network has reached 1 home 2 late September 2005. The following year, while digital broadcasting progressed to high speed, 15 pay channels were added to free 14, by both the terrestrial and digital. Among them, GST Star, Eurosport and Paris Première. The same year, the marketing of television in integrating a TNT adapter started. The success of the TNT was supposed to accompany and boost the development of other modes of dissemination or distribution of digital programs, cable, satellite, ADSL and personal mobile television.

To date, the main objectives are achieved: the TNT meeting a real success among viewers and in 2011, will cover 95 of the metropolitan population. However, there is a shadow in this table: pay DTT. It has not evolved as one might hope. Additional momentum that elle should cause for audiovisual and film production French did not occur. Yet cheap TV numeric offers for TNTop recorded that a limited number of subscribers (respectively 40,000 and 15,000). In 2008 and 2009, AB1 and Canal J have even returned to the CSA their authorization to broadcast on the TNT without having found the path to profitability. Finally, only Canal has managed to emerge with quality content and a real commercial success. This was however already the case before and is perceived, as a result, real inputs of the DTT pay-TV channels.

Why this exception française, prejudicial to the consumer Elsewhere, many countries have managed to create the conditions for the deployment of pay television channels. This example is the case in Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden. In France, some are ready to make the mourning of the pay DTT and grow even the CSA to assign two channels released to other uses such as the free high definition. It may in fact understand what happened without remembering the fratricidal battle which have engaged, in 1996, the bouquets of digital television. Canal had then launched CanalSatellite, a bouquet of 20 digital channels. Not wishing to leave the only encrypted string in this field, TF1 and M6 are allied, soon after, to launch GST, with 29 strings and 2 "interactive". A 3ebouquet, ABSat, followed shortly, composed by production AB group. It was very quickly declare package, but the battle between two other digital bouquets, supported end of arms by their groups, ended ten years later by the acquisition of Canal GST, thus giving birth to a single bouquet.

Some economists then crièrent to the economic absurdity. Others instead argued that there was no alternative to this de facto monopoly. The dreaded result soon in all cases to appear: Canal well obviously not showed the slightest willingness to promote the old channels of the GST, including GST Star bouquet, by proposed films or sports that are presented. Could reasonably expect from the Canal group that is competition to himself Because a dynamic market of digital TV, by satellite or terrestrial, none of the goals set by the CSA at the time of the GST-CanalSat merger could not be reached: no more in terms of pluralism and diversity of programs to boost the TNT itself.

It is therefore more time, if one is - infinitely desirable - save the pay DTT in France, restore genuine pluralism in this market. In the interest of production programs, in the TNT, consumers, and even in the interest understood Canal , pay TV contestants, determined and credible projects carry, must respond to the appeal of the APF for the two available channels. In the contrary case, the pay DTT would live a terrible Chronicle of an announced death.