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A. GELEBART / 20 MINUTES
Altice, owner of BFM TV among others, is expanding its audiovisual empire in the south of France.
Patrick Drahi's group has indeed just endorsed the purchase of local television stations Azur TV, Var Azur and Provence Azur.
“It's done,” an internal source told
20
Minutes on
Wednesday, confirming information from Smartradio.
If “the project has not yet been presented to employees”, according to this same source, the aim of the operation, for Altice, would be to create new local branches of BFM TV, such as BFM Lyon, BFM Grand Lille or BFM Paris which already exist.
The BFM Nice Côte d'Azur and BFM Marseille branches could in particular be launched.
Compete with the regional branches of France 3
The Azur TV group had already aroused envy.
In 2019, the boss of
Current Values
Iskandar Safa had taken over 39% of the company's shares, in order to "constitute a dynamic media center at the level of the inhabitants of the region".
A project that is therefore handing over, Altice, now having the objective of developing the BFM network to compete with the regional branches of France 3.
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