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Netflix Will Air Traditional TV Channels in France (theverge.com)

(Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:22AM (msmash) from the how-about-that dept.)


Starting in summer 2026, Netflix subscribers in France will be able to [1]watch commercially broadcast TV content "without ever having to leave the service." The Verge adds:

> The streaming giant has announced a distribution deal with French media company TF1 Group to make TF1's free-to-air live TV channels and on-demand TF1 Plus streaming content available to French Netflix users as part of their existing subscription plan.



[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/689022/netflix-tf1-group-carriage-deal-tv-channels


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by wheelbarrow ( 811145 )

> I stopped subscribing because we travel a lot and every time I try to login I get a message saying this is not part of my household. It's insulting. Screw you Netflix!

I've always been able to work around this inconvenience. Netflix does this because they were losing business to people sharing their password with their non-paying friends. How would you handle the same situation if you were running Netflix?

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by GoTeam ( 5042081 )

> I've always been able to work around this inconvenience. Netflix does this because they were losing business to people sharing their password with their non-paying friends. How would you handle the same situation if you were running Netflix?

I'm not the AC, but if I were Netflix I'd start giving "offending" accounts long unskippable commercials every five minutes. I'd also contact their employer to say their employee is a thief. Then I'll claim I know what kind of dog they have.

As a human I'd find those tactics horrifying, but thinking like a multinational corporation makes those options seem plausible.

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by karmawarrior ( 311177 )

I wonder if they do the same thing with the ad supported accounts? There's no good reason to ban account sharing, or impose restrictions on simultaneous connections, for something primarily funded through advertising. Of course, there's no good reason to charge a subscription fee either, and they do that.

The answer to your question right now is if I were Netflix, I'd try to merge with Disney+ and then quit as I (or rather the current management of Netflix) have no idea what I'm doing. But there certainly ar

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by karmawarrior ( 311177 )

They're expensive ($18 is a fucking rip off, especially given they're now answerable to advertisers - that "cheap" $8 (when is $8 cheap?) thing impacts those who don't want ads too), and their content sucks - unfunny comedy standup specials, cheap "action" movies with the same four horseactors of the apocalypse (Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Jack Black), and usually what's left that's good is only good by accident and cancelled after no more than three seasons, often sooner.

Them trying to av

Ah (Score:1)

by angstel ( 39001 )

Ah ben on avait bien besoin de ça : TF1, la chaîne qui vend du temps de cerveau disponible diffusé sur Neflix, le media qui a du temps de cerveau disponible à vendre.

The new cable (Score:2)

by xack ( 5304745 )

Just that the "cable" is now fibre optic.

retransmission fees? (Score:2)

by Joe_Dragon ( 2206452 )

retransmission fees?

....and we have come full circle (Score:1)

by TheStickBoy ( 246518 )

well done streaming services....well....done...

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