Five years ago this week… Leading French FTA channel TF1 became the exception to the rule in Europe by introducing retransmission fees for pay TV networks. In what seemed to be an American-influenced position, Bouygues-owned TF1 was threatening to pull its signals from Orange, SFR and Vivendi services unless the broadcasters agreed to pay retransmission fees. The game of chicken eventually swung in TF1’s favor, with OTT platform Molotov most recently ordered to pay $9.2 million to TF1 for retransmission of its channels in January 2022. — CNN+, the news streaming service that is barely a fortnight old, has crawled out of the gates, according to CNBC. The rival outlet claims CNN+ has picked up just 10,000 daily users…