Audiovisual: The French Supreme Administrative Court does not annul the decision of the Higher Audiovisual Council that refused to grant authorisation for free broadcasting to a channel (Paris Première)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 13 July 2016, the Conseil d'État dismissed the appeals brought by Métropole Télévision and Paris Première against the CSA's rejection of their application for approval to change the terms and conditions for financing the terrestrial television service. The application had been lodged following the annulment, on 17 June 2015, of the CSA's decisions refusing to allow LCI and Paris Première to switch to free broadcasting (CE, Ass., 17 June 2015, LCI, No 384826; Paris Première, No 385474; see the columns "Le Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel abrogates for the first time the authorisation to broadcast a television channel". "The Council of State overturns the