The Supervisory Board of M6 Group met on April 19, 2018 at the close of the Shareholders’ General Meeting and appointed Elmar Heggen as its Chairman following the previously announced resignation of Guillaume de Posch. Gilles Samyn was also appointed Vice-Chairman at the same meeting, replacing Guy de Panafieu who did not wish to have his term of office renewed. The composition of the various Board Committees has also been reviewed. As such, the Remuneration and Appointments Committee now comprises the following members: Gilles Samyn, Chairman of the Committee, CEO of Frère-Bourgeois Group and Chairman of Compagnie Nationale Portefeuille (CNP); Elmar Heggen, Executive Director of RTL Group; Marie Cheval, Executive Director of Customers, Services and Digital Transformation at Carrefour Group. The members of the Audit Committee are: Gilles Samyn, Chairman of the Committee; Elmar Heggen; Mouna Sepehri, Executive Vice President, Office of the CEO, Renault; Nicolas Houzé, CEO of Galeries Lafayette and BHV Marais. Since 1 October 2006, Elmar Heggen has been Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of the Corporate Center of RTL Group. On 18 April 2012, he was appointed Executive Director of RTL Group S.A. In October 2017, Marie Cheval joined Carrefour Group as Executive Director of Customers, Services and Digital Transformation. From 2011 to 2013, he served as Deputy CEO of the Group’s Department Store Division which includes Galeries Lafayette stores and BHV Marais. Nicolas Houzé is currently CEO of Galeries Lafayette and BHV Marais.
Métropole Télévision is one of the French largest audio-visual groups. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- operation of TV channels (79.4%): owns, at the end of 2023, 4 free-to-air channels (M6, W9, 6ter and Gulli), 9 pay channels (Paris Première, Téva, M6 Music, Série Club, Tiji, Canal J, RFM TV, MCM and MCM Top) and 4 digital channels (6play, 6play Max, Gulli Max and Gulli Replay);
- operation of radio stations (12.5%): owns RTL, RTL2 and Fun Radio and broadcasts podcasts;
- program production and audiovisual rights marketing (5.1%);
- other (3%): marketing of related products, magazine publishing, event organizing, Internet site publishing, telemarketing, etc.
Net sales break down primarily by source of revenue between sales of advertising space (81.1%), sales of subscriptions (6.9%) and sales of TV and film content (5.9%).