France, Feb. 21 -- French TV stations C8 and NRJ12 will cease broadcasting on 28 February after the Council of State, France's top court, rejected their appeals against the removal of their frequencies.

Arcom, France's audiovisual regulator, excluded both channels in July from the shortlist of selected candidates for the reallocation of digital terrestrial television frequencies which expire at the end of the month.Arcom confirmed its decision on 12 December.

Arcom pulled up C8 for a lack of editorial control over its programming following a series of incidents on the Touche pas a mon poste show of star presenter Cyril Hanouna that have led to fines of 7.5 million euros.

NRJ12 was upbraided for having too many repeats and too few origi...