French regulator looking to ease pay TV channels’ content burden

French media regulator the CSA is looking to ease the content creation obligations imposed on pay TV channels and create a more level playing field with international SVoD providers, according to CEO Olivier Schrameck. Schrameck told a meeting organised by channel providers association ACCeS that linear pay TV services and SVoD services were increasingly competing in the same space, but that the regulatory regimes governing each were very different, and that this had to change. Admitting that there is little the CSA can do in the short term to bring about Europe-wide regulation that recognised the importance of cultural creation, Schrameck said that the CSA could nevertheless take some steps to provide relief to domestic pay services. http://www.digitaltveurope.net/389832/french-regulator-looking-to-ease-pay-tv-channels-content-burden/ http://www.csa.fr/Espace-Presse/Interventions-publiques/Allocution-d-Olivier-Schrameck-au-colloque-de-l-ACCeS