PARIS, Feb 15 (Reuters) - French public television operator France Télévisions and private TV groups M6 and TF1 said in a joint statement on Wednesday they had decided to close their Salto platform, which had been set up as a challenger to foreign groups such as Netflix.

Launched in October 2020, Salto signed up nearly one million subscribers, but the three groups said that the abandonment of the proposed merger between TF1 and M6 meant that Salto could not be continued. (Reporting by GV De Clercq, editing by Tassilo Hummel)