“A blow.” Released on September 7, 1998, the one chain One saw its last weeks. According to the information of BFM Tech & CO, Paramount Networks France Group, to whom the game one belongs, decided to stop the transmission at the end of November 2025 as part of a large restructuring plan that refers to more than 50% of the workforce of the television post.
This precipitated closure is the direct consequence of the merger between the US parent company, Paramount Global and Skydance, to create a new entity. A fusion that has been approved by competition authorities, especially in the United States.
A chain but profitable
Internally, for the ten independent employees and workers concerned about this closing of the game one with whom we could discuss the case, it is the misunderstanding what remains: “However, we are very profitable,” blows a production manager present for ten years. According to our information, the chain was really profitable and even generated more than two million euros per year of net earnings.
However, for some time, the employees interviewed had small illusions: “We feel that he would come because even if they told us that I went for a season, these are short contracts that have been signed,” explains an independent professional.
Interested employees were warned of the channel’s destination just before the start of the school year.
Twitch and YouTube competition
The Adventure of the ONE game began in 1998 with the aim of making video games accessible. Transmitted exclusively in the satellite in its beginnings, the chain joins the cable and then to the ADSL. It is diversifying by not offering only video game programs, but also anime.
However, he experienced a serious turbulence in the early 2000s, when InfoGrams, a French video game publishing house, which coincided with the chain with Canal+, occupies the editorial line in the hand, causing several outputs. The company is dedicated to a first economy plan. In 2006, the chain will be assumed by its current shareholder, with secondary projects such as J-one, also worried about this purpose of dissemination, in the key.
“The game problem is that in 2025, people see video games on Twitch or YouTube, not within a dark bouquet of adsl channels,” explains a good connoisseur of the environment, which prefers to remain in anonymity. In 2023, questioned by Telenoisirs, the star host of the game one, Julien Tluck, argued, however, that the channel was “complementary” transmission offers: “We are not really television, we are not really the Internet, we are the link between the two.”
It is this link that, therefore, will disappear soon. At the end of November, the lights of the G1 team, a historical program, will last for the last time.
Source: BFM TV
