French DTT pay-TV not profitable in short term
French audiovisual regulator the CSA believes that the country’s digital-terrestrial pay-TV services will not be profitable in the short and medium term.
The news comes as Lagardère-owned kids channel Canal J is embroiled in a dispute with TV Numeric, one of the country’s pay-DTT operators. Canal J handed back its DTT licence in April as a result of the costs of the service; it paid 3m for the network but only generated Â1m revenue as a result of poor subscriber take up.Â