TV6

TV6 was the first French Television channel private and free devoted to youth and the music. It was also the first chain to die on line in the history of French television, a gloss before the Five.

History of the chain

1985, at a little more than one year of the legislative elections in France, the left fears a failure and then wishes to create a new space, out of the field institutional of public television, likely to touch many people (contrary with encrypted Canal+) and to constitute a relay of opinion to its ideas if it had suddenly turned over in the opposition. François Mitterrand lance then as of January the idea of a " space of freedom supplémentaire" and asks the government Laurent Fabius to study the project. The lawyer Jean-Denis Bredin, charged by the Prime Minister with writing a report/ratio on the opening of " televisual space on television privée" , on January 14th gives to him. He recommends the creation of two private national television channels in light financed by the publicity and whose frequencies will be conceded by the State in accordance with article 79 of the law of July 29th 1982.

July 31st 1985, Georges Fillioud, French Secretary of State in charge of the Techniques of the communication, makes in the Council of Ministers a presentation on the development of the audio-visual one. It announces there a bill defining the creation of two new deprived television channels with national vocation in the capital of which press groups, production companies and advertizing executives would be found.

After a hard competition between various proposals, the government chooses on January 28th 1986 the project of the company TV6 leads by Publicis to create the first French television channel devoted to youth and the music. The concession contract between the State and TV6 is signed the same day, and the bearing decree approval of this contract and the schedule of conditions of the sixth chain is published on February 21st. TV6, first musical television channel French, starts to emit on the new sixth terrestrial network the 1 {{er}}   March 1986. Faithful to its target, it calls young person of the TVS and is entirely dedicated to the current musics.

After the legislative elections of May 1986 gained by the line, François Léotard, new Minister for the Culture of the new government of Jacques Chirac, decides by the decree n° 86-901 of July 30th, 1986 of réattribuer this chain before the end of its concession. Following a recourse of TV6, this decree is cancelled by decree of the Council of State on February 2nd, 1987 because the minister did not respect the legal expiry of the one year concession. However, the CNCL, which succeeded the High ranking authority of the audio-visual communication, fixes on January 15th 1987 the general and particular obligations of the " private national hertzian televisions in clair" by the decisions n° 87-1 and 87-2. The February 2nd 1987, the decree n° 87-52 cancels the concession contract of the sixth chain and February 25th and 26th 1987, CNCL allots the sixth network to the company Métropole Television created by the allied Lyonnaise of Water to CLT, the producer Marin Karmitz (MK2) and to the press group Amaury. Johnny Halliday, Eddy Mitchell, Serge Gainsbourg and others, in vain challenges the government to try to save TV6.

The February 28th 1987, TV6, whose the one year concession was not renewed, diffuses its last emission since the plate of the emission Tam Tam in the presence of many artists and of all the organizers of the chain (Frederic Derieux, Smicky, Childeric Muller, Isabelle Duhamel, and Jean-Luc Delarue which carries a sign " there' has some that one, it is the 6" , wink with the slogan of TF1 of the time). The program is completed by a clip parodying Star Wars in which Darth Vador (symbolizing the new right government Chirac/Balladur) is pleased with the victory with the Empire (the group Lyonnaise of Water/Suez) over rebellion (TV6 property of Publicis/NRJ) and explodes the planet TV6… which will have lived only one year. March 1st 1987, M6 took over

In November 1984, Léo Scheer which conceived and developed Canal+, leaves Havas and André Rousselet for Publicis and Maurice Levy. A first project of commercial television is implemented with Europe 1. When the government decides to create two new chains and not only one, Publicis turns to other partners like NRJ, Gaumont, Gross, and the three majors of the music publishing, Polygram, Sony and Virgin. Under the direction of Maurice Levy, Léo Scheer and Jean-Martial Lefranc develop the project of a chain adapted to a new terrestrial network, targeted on the young people and negotiate a concession contract of public service. Among the three projects in competition, whose favorite of the capacity in place is carried out by Jacques Séguéla, it is the Publicis project which is adopted by the government in 1986. Directed by Léo Scheer, the chain starts to emit in March. The left loses the legislative elections and the first government of cohabitation of Jacques Chirac cancels the concessions signed for 18 years by the 5 and the 6. Publicis negotiates with Lyons water to make a new round table which would associate the new ones and the former operators, as for the 5 (Berlusconi/harrowing). But the negotiations do not succeed and it is the M6 project which is selected to take over TV6 without interruption of the antenna.

Organization

Leaders

Chairman and managing director:
  • Maurice Levy
Managing director:

  • Léo Scheer (Originator and operational owner of TV6. And also originator of Canal+)

Directing of the programs:

  • Patrice White-Franquart

Executive vice president:

  • Jean Martial Lefranc

Capital

The shareholders of TV6 were Publicis to 25%, Gaumont to 25%, NRJ to 18%, Gilbert Gross to 12% and 20% distributed between the direction, of the individuals and the companies of music publishing.

Preparing

The musical jingles of TV6 were carried out by the producer-arranger Jean-Pierre Castelain.

Goes down for hearing

TV6, in 1987, touched more than 10 million hearths (covering the Île-de-France, Lyon and Marseilles). However, its starting was compromised by the absence of publicity and because of technical difficulties to collect it (channels TV less powerful than those of TF1, Antenne 2, FR3, Canal+ and the Five). Because of absence of reliable measurement of audience relating to it at the time (the TV rating related to neither the Five, nor TV6), the press and the media had treated it the marginal one. Lastly, the powerful lobby of the Cable television (Lyons of Water, General of Water, France Telecom), seeing in it a national specialized channel likely to slow down its development, made very to minimize its success.

Programs

Emissions

  • Tom-tom : great weekly show animated by Alain Maneval in which pressed themselves the French artists connected or foreigners of the Années 1980 (the Niagara, Simple Minds,…).

  • System 6 : the emission headlight of the chain diffused in end of the afternoon and animated by Childeric Muller and Isabelle Duhamel, the ex-presenter of Hello the p' tits wolves on TF1. Each day, the emission, completely on line, gave the possibility of choosing the clips diffused with the antenna and especially to put questions and of conversing with the artists present about the plate.

  • NRJ 6 : this daily musical magazine allowed NRJ, first musical radio for the young people, to offer a window on the first French music channel, of which it was shareholder. The emission was presented by defectors of NRJ: Frederic Derieux (old organizer of night), Cookie (stimulating of morning), Smicky (stimulating and voice antenna of NRJ), Dominique Duforest, the interviewer of the stars and Miss C.

  • the Good Plans: daily program presented by Philippe Vandel which made there its first televisual weapons.

  • a page of pub : emission presented on line by Olivier Doran and Jean-Luc Delarue which returns the antenna at the end of the emission while saying: hello on your premise while making the adequate sign (reference to the series the Prisoner ).

  • Graffi' 6 : emission for youth (cartoons).

  • Profile 6 : musical magazine.

Starting from the October 25th 1986, TV6 started to diffuse starting from 14:00 with the music of signal gun of the series and a serial, as of films resulting from the catalog Gaumont:

This grid undergoes few variations until the stop of the chain the February 28th 1987.

Diffusion

TV6 was diffused in SECAM on the new sixth French terrestrial analogical terrestrial network which, with its creation, touched only the great agglomerations. Moreover, TV6 was relayed on the whole of the national territory via the satellite Télécom 1B (which, thanks to the Five, went booster rocket the equipment in parabola on France).

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • Site devoted to TV6
  • Cancellation by the Council of State of the decree n° 86-901 of July 30th, 1986 cancelling the concession of TV6
  • Interview of Isabelle Duhamel by Toutelatele.com

Vidéos

  • Test card TDF Network 6 with code TV6 in 1986
  • Opening of antenna of TV6 in 1986
  • Jingle TV6 in 1986
  • Jingle TV6 in 1986
  • Jingle TV6 in 1986
  • Jingle TV6 in 1986
  • Jingle TV6 Christmas 1986
  • Opening of antenna of TV6 in 1987
  • Closing of antenna of TV6 in 1987
  • Jingle TV6 in 1987
  • Jingle TV6 in 1987
  • Jingle Generic publicity TV6
  • of '' Generic Système 6 ''
  • of '' NRJ6 ''
  • '' Soir 3 '' of January 1987 introducing the three candidates to the resumption of the sixth network following the call of offer of the CNCL
  • 13 last minutes of TV6 on February 28th, 1987 of 23:47 at midnight

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