Chérie 25 () is a French TV channel, controlled by the

NRJ Group The NRJ Group (NRJ is an acronym read as ''énergie'' in French language, French, pronounced ) () is a French multimedia group based in Paris. Its founders are Jean-Paul Baudecroux and Max Guazzini. Since its foundation in 1981 as a Culture o ...

. Chérie 25 is launched on

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, satellite, and

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on 12 December 2012. The channel is named after the radio station

Chérie FM Chérie FM is a French radio station created in 1987 and belongs to the NRJ Group. History Chérie FM was created in 1987 in Paris by Jean-Paul Baudecroux on the then defunct frequency of Gilda la Radiopolitaine. Chérie FM then started broadca ...

, owned by the same group.

History

In 2011,

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, president of

, proposed a television project to launch a new channel named Chérie HD. In 2012, following the shutdown of analogue television, the

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(CSA) auditioned the NRJ Group following its application for an additional channel from one of the six national HD channels on TNT, and finally had chosen for Chérie HD. In October 2012, two months before the station was launched, the name Chérie HD was changed to Chérie 25, with ''25'' referring to the channel's number on the French

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(TNT). In 2025, with the removal of its sister channel

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by ARCOM, the NRJ Group is considering selling or returning frequency no. 25 (when it is renewed in 2027), to leave the DTT sector. The sale was confirmed on March 21, 2025 and will be mandated by the

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bank.

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(CMA-CGM which owns RMC-BFM as well as a 10.25% stake in the capital of the M6 group) and the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky (CMI France) who owns the future television channel T18, are showing keen interest in the purchase of Chérie 25.

Programmes

* ''10 ans de moins'' * ''99% plaisir'' * ''Ma vie de femme criminelle'' * ''Ma vie de femme d'ailleurs'' * ''Ma vie de femme intime'' * ''Ma vie de femme enceinte'' * '' Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'' * ''Sans tabou'', * ''Si vous voulez mon avis'' * ''Tout le plaisir est pour moi'' * '' La nouvelle vie de Tori Spelling''

TV Series

* '' Blood Ties'' * ''

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'' * ''Dos au mur'' * ''

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'' * '' La Vie secrète d'une ado ordinaire'' * ''

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'' * '' Orgueil et Préjugés'' * ''

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'' * ''Roxane ou la Vie Sexuelle de ma Pote'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * '' The Middle'' * ''

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'' * '' Titanic: Blood and Steel'' * ''

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References

External links

*
Official site
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History

Programmes

TV Series

See also

References

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