France 5
| France 5 | |
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| Launched | 13 December 1994 |
| Owned by | France Télévisions |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audience share | 3.3% (2011, Médiamétrie) |
| Slogan | Explorer, étonner, éclairer |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Formerly called | La Cinquième (1994–2002) |
| Sister channel(s) | France 2 France 3 France 4 France Ô |
| Website | www.france5.fr |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| TNT | Channel 5 |
| Satellite | |
| CanalSat | Channel 5 |
| Cable | |
| Numericable | Channel 13 |
| MC Cable | Channel 6 |
| Cablecom | Channel 111 Channel 306 (digital CH-D) |
France 5 is a public television network in France, part of the France Télévisions group. Principally featuring educational programming, the channel's motto is la chaîne de la connaissance et du savoir (the knowledge network). In contrast to the group's two main channels, France 2 and France 3, France 5 concentrates almost exclusively on factual programming, documentaries, and discussions – 3925 hours of documentaries were broadcast in 2003[1] – with fiction confined to one primetime slot of around two hours' duration on Monday evenings.
France 5 is available round the clock on digital. From 19.00 each evening until 3.00 the following morning France 5's analogue frequencies, however, carry the evening schedule of the Franco-German cultural channel Arte (until november 2011).
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[edit] History
France 5 was called La Cinquième (The Fifth) until January 2002. It was born officially in February 1994, more than one year after the financial collapse in April 1992 of the channel La Cinq (which was the first free private channel in France; it ceased broadcasting abruptly), reusing its past analog broadcasting network. La Cinquième started broadcasting in December 1994 with a mix of small educational programs, during the hours not used by Arte (that was founded just a few days after the death of La Cinq).
It was renamed France 5 later, when it was integrated in the new France Télévisions public holding which already grouped Antenne 2 (renamed France 2), and FR3 (France Régions 3, renamed France 3). Since then, France 5 broadcasting hours have been extended to 24 hours a day (initially available only on cable and satellite, and since spring 2005 on air within the new digital broadcasting multiplex "R1" network that supports all national public TV channels and that will replace the existing equivalent analog broadcast channels).
[edit] Programmes
[edit] Documentaries
- The Blue Planet (Planète bleue)
- Frozen Planet (Terres de glace)
- Wild Africa (Afrique extrême)
- MegaStructures (Superstructures)
- Naked Science (Superscience)
[edit] Magazines
- C dans l'air
- L'emploi par le net
- Le magazine de la santé
- Les maternelles
- Revu et corrigé
- Silence, ça pousse !
[edit] Children's
- Zouzous
- Princesse Sarah
- La Famille Berenstain
- Petit Ours
- Thomas le petit train
- Les Aventures d'Ernest et Bart
- Le Pingu Show
- Le Dino train
- Angelina Ballerina
- SamSam
- Sid le petit scientifique
- Les Bisounours
- Peppa Pig
- Eloïse c'est moi
- Les Quatre Filles du docteur March
- Les Monsieur Madame
- Cédric
- Maya l'abeille
- Mouk
- Geronimo Stilton
- Hamtaro
- Bubulle Guppies
- Horseland : Bienvenue au Ranch
- Ruby Gloom
- Word World : Le Monde des Mots
- Olive et Tom
- Umizoomi
- Yakari
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Les 10 ans du succès pour France 5" (in French). Toutelatele. 13 December 2004. http://www.toutelatele.com/article.php3?id_article=4124. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
[edit] External links
- Official Site (French)
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