Groupe MCM (formerly Euromusique-MCM) was a French television company, created by Europe 1 Communication. In 2000, Europe 1 Communication was integrated into the

Lagardère Active Lagardère may refer to: Companies * Lagardère Group, a French media group ** Lagardère Live Entertainment, an entertainment agency subsidiary ** Lagardère News, the media activities arm ** Lagardère Publishing, the book publishing arm People ...

holding and made a digital alliance with

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taking a 49% share in its thematic channels. In January 2005, Lagardère Active and Canal+ divested their cross-shareholdings in order to launch their channels on DTT from which the CSA had cancelled their licenses on the grounds of their joint ownerships, including the Groupe MCM-led i-MCM, which project was renamed and launched as Europe 2 TV. In May 2019, Lagardère sold most its television assets including MCM to the

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, who incorporated its channels to its thematic unit.

Television channels

Channels still active

These are now part of M6 Thématiques. * MCM * RFM TV (still named MCM Pop in Portugal) *

MCM Top MCM Top is a French music video TV channel owned by Groupe M6. History To enrich its offer of music channels, Lagardère Active launched on November 28, 2003 MCM Music + channels. It was then composed of three channels : MCM, MCM Pop, replaci ...

* Mezzo was acquired by

and

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(

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)

Defunct channels

* (sold to

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and replaced by

Trace Urban Trace Urban (formerly MCM Africa then Trace TV) is a French pay-TV music video television channel, that is owned by TPG Capital. It is the parent channel of the various Trace music channels like Trace Africa and Trace Latina. It is the third ...

) *

Virgin 17 Virgin 17 was a French music video and TV show television network owned by the MCM Group, a subsidiary of Lagardère Active. It was available through digital terrestrial television (DTT). The channel was created for the launch of DTT and model ...

(Sold to

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and replaced by

Direct Star Direct Star was a French free-to-air music television channel owned by Vincent Bolloré, that launched on 1 September 2010, replacing Virgin 17. The channel was bought by Canal+ Group and replaced by CStar on 7 October 2012. History Bolloré ...

then Bollore sold the channel to

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and replaced by D17 * (Closed on December 31, 2009) * (Merged with Mezzo from

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on 2 April 2002 as international TV Channel)

Administration

; Presidents * Jean-Pierre Ozannat ( – ) * Frédéric Schlesinger ( – ) * Christophe Sabot ( – 2008) * Emmanuelle Guilbart (2008 – 2010)

References

{{RTL Group Music television channels Television companies of France RTL Group Mass media companies established in 1989 French companies established in 1989 Television networks in France Music organizations based in France