Canal+ headquarters, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, July 2024
Burkina Faso’s media regulator has slapped a new and much larger fine on French broadcaster Canal+ accusing it of failing to provide free access to state TV channe๐ฅs.
It said the satellite service has not complied with an order requiring it to make public stations freely accessible to all subscribers, even after their subscriptions expi๐ซe.
The watchdog imposed a penalty of $350,000 on the French company, four times higher than the previous fine handed do๐ฐn in June.
At the time, it gave Canal+ 30 days to remove all technical barriers preventing subscribers from accessing unencrypted b๐ซoadcasts of the state Radiodiffusion Tรฉlรฉvision du Burkina.
The military government, in power since๐a 2022 coup, has suspended most major Western media outlets.
This includes France’s RFI radio and Fra๐งce 24 TV channel, and it has also expelled several foreign correspondents.
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