Coordinates: 48°50′20″N 2°16′17″E / 48.83889°N 2.27139°E
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| Type | Société anonyme |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | France Télévisions SA 7, esplanade Henri de France 75015 Paris |
| Key people | Patrick de Carolis: Chief Executive Officer Patrice Duhamel: Vice-President and Director General of Broadcasting. |
| Revenue | €2,853 million |
| Employees | 11,400 |
| Website | www.francetelevisions.fr |
France Télévisions (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s televizjɔ̃]) is the French public national television broadcaster. It is funded mostly by television licence fees and advertising.
France Télévisions is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) innitiative (a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES Astra, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.
Formed by a link of public TV channels France 2 (ex-Antenne 2) and France 3 (ex-France Régions 3). Afterward, legally independent channels joined-it: France 5 (ex-TheFifth), RFO and France 4 (ex-festival). The new law on public audiovisual is going to forbid gradually the advertising on the public television channels (at first in the evening, then gradually throughout the day)
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Channels
National
- France 2 - Primary Channel with the second largest viewing audience (after TF1)
- France 3 - Network of regional stations
- France 4 - Only available on digital television. Previously named "Festival", and specialized in theater, opera and French-speaking and European fictions. It's a channelfor young adult, as BBC Three (sports, sitcom, arts, music and entertainment)
- France 5 - Focuses on employment, education and health
- Réseau France Outre-mer (RFO) - a network of radio and television stations operating in French overseas departments and territories around the world
- France Ô - RFO's satellite channel, featuring only programming from RFO's regions and now broadcast in the Paris metropolitan area by Télévision Numérique Terrestre
Thematic
France Télévisions has interest in a number of thematic cable/satellite channels in France:
| Channel | France Télévisions | Indirect Interest | Other Interest | |
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| Gulli | 34 % | 66 % Lagardère Active | ||
| Mezzo | 20 % | 20 % | France Télémusique | 60 % Lagardère Active |
| Planète Thalassa | 34 % | 66 % MultiThématiques (Canal+ Group) | ||
| Planète Justice | 34 % | 66 % MultiThématiques (Canal+ Group) | ||
France Télévisions holds 100 % of France Télémusique SAS.
The thematic channel Planète Juniors (formerly Ma Planète) has seized operations in march 2009.
International
| Channel | France Télévisions | Indirect Interest | Other Interest | |
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| France 24 | 50.00 % | 50 % TF1 SA | ||
| TV5MONDE | 47.50 % | 12.50 % | ARTE France | 11.11 % TSR - 11.11 % RTBF - 11.11 % CTQC - 6.61 % INA - 0.18 % other |
| Euronews (through SECEMIE) |
24.05 % | 21.65 % RAI - 18.81 % RTVE - 16.06 % RTR - 9.20 % SSR - 10.23 % other | ||
| ARTE | 50.00 % | ARTE France | 50 % ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH | |
France Télévisions holds 45 % of the ARTE France holding company together with the French state (25 %), Radio France (15 %) and INA (15 %). ARTE France and ARTE Deutschland form the ARTE Consortium that manages the bilingual French-German channel (ARTE shares its analog channel with France 5, but both channels have separate full-time services on cable, satellite and digital broadcasts).
France Télévisions also controls the new R1 digital multiplex that currently hosts France 2, France 3, France 5, Arte and La Chaîne parlementaire. France 4 was originally on the R1 multiplex but was moved to R2 to allow space for regional channels on R1.
See also
External links
- Official site (French)
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