doIt’s probably not the best that television has to offer, but it’s far from the worst. So why NRJ12? In its decision of July 24, the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom) did not justify its desire not to renew the transmission authorization of the NRJ group channel, at the same time as that of C8, which should also disappear from the market. Free digital terrestrial television (DTT) offer. If the choice is understandable for the Bolloré group channel, which has accumulated 7.6 million euros in fines for the slips of its star presenter, Cyril Hanouna, it remains more confusing for its neighbor on the 12 channel.
The most likely hypothesis would be that the audiovisual regulator was not convinced of the economic viability of the channel, with its low audiences and its programming focused on broadcasts. Nine consecutive episodes of American series from the 2010s occupy the morning (Lucifer, Unforgettable), followed by some numbers from the French program A season at the zoobefore a new tunnel of somewhat dated sitcoms (The Big Bang Theory, My Uncle Charlie…): this is indeed the course of a classic day at NRJ12. The situation is even worse on weekends, with up to seventeen episodes following the same series, mixed with rare French productions that are a little more prestigious, such as the series ten percent.
There is something almost hypnotizing about following these programs that happen incessantly, that take us to another space-time dimension where we lose all notion of time and time, letting ourselves be lulled by the music of the credits that return, again and again. . Only at the beginning of the evening does the loop break to give way to another type of recycling, with blooper compilations, a bit of imported reality shows or, more rarely, normal action movies.
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It is not the best to nourish the mind, although it must be recognized that the channel has let itself go, drastically reducing the quota of reality shows, which had been its trademark, with its emblematic productions such as “Los Ángeles del Reality TV” or “So True,” which highlighted anonymous people with supposedly extraordinary stories.
Today, the channel boasts of being the one that “the largest proportion of people between 15 and 49 years old” at his hearing, as alleged by the president and CEO of the NRJ group, Jean-Paul Baudecroux, during his hearing before Arcom in July and, on October 10, with the Figaro. “Everyone complains that television is getting old! And we choose to discard one of the only channels that manages to speak. [à la jeunesse] »he lamented in the newspaper columns.
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