2007 Annual report - Groupe M6

MANAGEMENT REPORT
A generalist channel aimed at a young adult audience, TF6 offers original entertainment,
never-shown-before series, recent drama and nearly 200 feature films a year. This offer
is completed by that of Série Club, which continued to implement the same editorial
policy with never-shown-before series, sitcoms, a series-dedicated magazine and special
nights.
Among Cabsat channels that broadcast series, Série Club managed to rank second for
4 year olds and over and under 50 year-old housewives and registered a marked 0.2
percentage point market share gain on these two targets.
On a nationwide level, Série Club was even the 5th channel for under 50 year old
subscribers.
(Source: Médiamétrie/MediaCabSat Wave 14 (Sept.2007 - Feb.2008) versus Wave 13
(Jan.-June 2007)
1.4.4
1.4.4.1
A diversification and audiovisual rights strategy
that bears fruit
Audiovisual rights
SND (Société Nouvelle Distribution) is the flagship of M6 Group’s audiovisual rights
business, operating on all movie distribution formats.
SND’s main activity is the acquisition, management and distribution of exploitation rights of
audiovisual works, throughout their operating cycle (cinemas, video, sale of rights to pay
TV and free TV broadcasters).
On its main general public markets of cinema distribution and video sales, SND had to cope
this year with an unfavourable environment once again, with a 5.6% decline in cinemagoing
(Source CNC), and a video market also posting a 10.6% decline in value. These
markets face an enhanced digitalisation and dematerialisation context, which goes handin-hand
with a change in content consumption patterns. Over the past 5 years, the share
of the TV licence and subscriptions in household audiovisual programme expenditure has
increased at the expense of the cinema budget and the purchase of videos.
Despite this unfavourable environment, SND managed to rank as the 9th French
distributor.
This traditional SND activity is completed by the distribution of its rights portfolio to French
free to air and pay TV channels, as well as by its international distribution activity.
In order to consolidate its rank in the audiovisual right environment and secure its access to
more diverse content, M6 Group owns a number of feature film rights catalogues.
SNC was fully acquired in April 2005. Its business is the distribution and management of
the rights of a catalogue of nearly 450 European films.
TCM D.A was created in September 1996 by TF1, M6 and CLT. Its business is the
acquisition, distribution, sale, import and export, promotion, provision and negotiation of
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