France Télévisions
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 | Rémy Pflimlin: 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 a state-owned company formed from the bringing together of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (formerly France Régions 3), later joined by the legally independent channels France 5 (formerly La Cinquième), France Ô (formerly RFO Sat), and France 4 (formerly Festival).
France Télévisions is currently funded by the revenue from television licence fees and commercial advertising. The new law on public broadcasting will phase out commercial advertising on the public television channels (at first in the evening, then gradually throughout the day).
France Télévisions is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative (a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, 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.
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[edit] History and chronology
- 27 June 1964 : L'Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the national agency charged with providing public radio and television.
- 1975: The ORTF is broken up into separate TV channels (TF1, antenne 2, France Région 3), technical services with TDF, radio service (Radio-France, archives services INA, production and audiovisual creation services SFP.
- In August, 1989, while endowing with a common president Antenne 2 and FR3 supports the juridical separation of both channels.
- On September 7, 1992, Antenne 2 and FR3 change name and become respectively France 2 and France 3. They are consequently regrouped within France Television. Nevertheless, France Television (without " s ") is only a commercial name corresponding to no juridical entity. The historical colours of the channel are respected (red for France 2 and blue for France 3) : They symbolised the colours of the French flag.
- At the same time, La Cinquième, television of culture, job and education (not to confuse with La Cinq which was a private channel), exists separately from France television.
- In August, 2000 law gives a legal existence to France Television by creating the holding company France Télévisions S.A. It then absorbs the public channels (France 2, France 3 and La Cinquième) as well as their subsidiaries.
- In January 2002 La Cinquième becomes France 5. Green is associated with France 5.
- In 2004, RFO, the broadcasting public society for French overseas territories, is absorbed by France televisions.
- In 2008 the French President will now choose the presidents of French public broadcasters (France Télévisions and Radio-France directly. They were before nominated by the CSA.
- In 2009, commercials are axed after 8 PM. France Télévisions SA also leaves its 'holding company' status by absorbing the 'program companies' (France 2, 3, 4, 5 and Ô).
- In 2010, RFO becomes Réseau France Outre-mer 1ère.
- In 2011, in the Tour de France a car of France Télévision crashes while trying to overtake cyclists Johnny Hoogerland and Juan Antonio Flecha. Both cyclists are wounded. Hoogerland flies into the barbed wire and is seriously injured. The French prosecutor in Aurillac opens an investigation.
[edit] Logos
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Logo of France Télévision from April 7th, 2008 till September 5th, 2011
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Logo of France Télévision from September 5th, 2011
[edit] Channels
[edit] National
- France 2 - Primary channel with the second largest viewing audience (after TF1).
- France 3 - Network of regional stations.
- France 4 - Available only on digital television. Previously named "Festival", and specializing in theatre, opera and French-language and other European originated drama, it is a channel for young adults (similar to BBC Three: sports, sitcom, arts, music and entertainment).
- France 5 - Focuses on societal issues (health, education, politics...) with talk-shows and culture with documentary films.
- 1ère- A network of radio and television stations operating in French overseas departments and territories around the world (formerly known as RFO - Réseau France Outre-mer).
- France Ô - 1ère's satellite channel, featuring only programming from 1ère's regions and now broadcast in France on a national scale by Télévision Numérique Terrestre.
[edit] Thematic
France Télévisions has an 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) ceased operations in March 2009.
[edit] International
| Channel | France Télévisions | Indirect Interest | Other Interest | |
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| France 24 | 100.00 % | |||
| TV5MONDE | 12.58 % | 3.29 % | Arte | SAEF 49 %, TSR 11.11 %, RTBF 11.11 %, CBC/Radio-Canada 6.67 %, Télé-Québec 4.44 %, INA 1.74 % |
| 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.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official site (French)
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