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TF1 Group (French:Groupe TF1) is a French media holding company. Its best-known property is the broadcast networkTF1. The group was formed after TF1 was privatized in April 1987 in which the channel was launched back on January 6 1975 twelve years prior. It is controlled with a 43% stake by industrial groupBouygues, and is quoted onEuronext Paris.
The history of TF1 traces back to 1975, when theOffice de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was split into 7 successor institutions. Allegedly to provide competition forCanal+,La Cinq andM6, the French government decided to privatize TF1. In April 1987, the construction conglomerateBouygues won the resulting auction for the sale of TF1, ahead of theLagardère Group.[4] On 16 April,Francis Bouygues, the president of Bouygues, presented a check of three billionfrancs to the government, completing the privatisation of TF1.[4][5]
In June 2009, TF1 Group agreed to buy theNT1 channel fromAB Groupe, as well as AB's 40% stake in TMC Monte Carlo (which would take TF1's total stake to 80%). The deal was cleared by France'scompetition authority and subsequently by theCouncil of State in December 2010, dismissing an appeal byMétropole Télévision.[6] As part of the same transaction, the group raised its stake in WB Television to 49%.[7]
On 21 December 2012,Discovery Communications (now known asWarner Bros. Discovery) purchased a 20% stake inEurosport from TF1 Group for €170m.[8] Discovery had the option to increase its stake to 51% in 2014. If Discovery exercised that option, TF1 Group was entitled to then exercise a put option over the remaining 49% that would see Discovery take full control.[9] On 22 July 2015, Discovery agreed to acquire TF1's remaining 49% stake in the venture.[10] Discovery also took a 20% share in TV Breizh, Histoire, Ushuaia TV and Stylia – for €14m, with the option of increasing its shareholding to 49% in each channel in 2014. Discovery and TF1's production arm will also work together on making programmes.[11]
TF1 Group's Newen agree to acquire a majority stake inReel One of Montreal in July 2019. Current owner and CEO Tom Berry would retain a minority stake in the company.[12]
In December 2017, the TF1 group finds an agreement with the Canal+ group, The MYTF1 service and thus restored on CANAL decoders and on myCanal and also the control of live (Start-Over) is possible on myCanal. A similar episode occurs in September 2022.[13]
On 18 May 2021, TF1 Group andM6 Group announced that both companies have begun negotiations for a proposed merger.[14][15] On 16 September 2022, the merger was officially abandoned due to the conditions ordered by the antitrust French authorities.[16]
Some of its channels were affected byan outage on 19 July 2024.[17][18]
^Sacré, Jean-François; Souris, Simon (14 January 2022)."TF1 lance un JT à la carte" [TF1 launches an à la carte television newscast].L'Echo (in French).Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved9 February 2024.
€2.288 billion (2018)
€3.157 billion (2018)
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