In France, Cyril Hanouna, the host of the C8 channel controlled by the Bolloré group, said he was the victim of relentlessness from those who want to remove him from the media landscape. As popular as he was controversial, the host spoke for two and a half hours before a parliamentary commission of inquiry, aiming to shed light on the allocation and control of frequency authorizations on DTT.
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Those who expected an outrageous Cyril Hanouna, he who is famous for his slip-ups, were disappointed. The host of the show “Touche pas à mon poste” posed himself as a victim. For two and a half hours, he tirelessly repeated the same credo. The record fines received by his show and by the C8 channel – seven and a half million euros in total – for failings or slippages, are, according to him, relentless.
“ There is real relentlessness on my shows, we have to be three times more careful than the othersestimated the host. I think that there is really a form of lobbying which means that today, people want to take me out of the audiovisual landscape because I say things that no one says on the air. And my outspokenness and my freedom are disturbing. »
Cyril Hanouna denies being “under the thumb of Vincent Bolloré”
In front of sometimes catchy deputies, Cyril Hanouna apologized on several occasions for controversies, outrageous comments or the dissemination of false news. He denied being under the boot of Vincent Bolloré », to use the expression of a deputy. As he rejected accusations of favoring the extreme right in his broadcasts. As Vincent Bolloréauditioned the day before, Cyril Hanouna walked on eggshells without always convincing his audience.
The opinion of the parliamentary commission should weigh on the renewal or not of the frequency of the C8 channel on the DTT bouquet. A decision pronounced by Arcom – the regulatory body – next May.
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