France Télévisions
Coordinates: 48°50′20″N 2°16′17″E / 48.83889°N 2.27139°E
 Outre-Mer 1ère, France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, France Ô |
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| Type | Société anonyme |
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| Founded | 7 September 1992 (originally as France Television without "s") August 2000 (Forming France Télévisions SA) |
| 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, and has selected HbbTV for its interactive news, sports and weather service, and plans to add catch-up TV and social media sharing capability.[1]
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History [edit]
From 1964 to 1974, French radio and television was monopolized through an organization known as the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française. In 1975, the organization was split up into multiple independent organizations: despite still being owned by the French government, the "program companies" TF1, Antenne 2, and FR3 were now operationally separate. While this move was intended to stimulate competition, the privatization of TF1 in 1987 and increased competition from new private channels (such as Canal+ and La Cinq) led to a decline in viewership for the two public channels, who lost 30% of their market share between 1987 and 1989.[2][3] In August 1989, in an effort to save the channels, a single director-general was appointed to manage both Antenne 2 and FR3, becoming part of a joint entity known as France Télévision. They were renamed in 1992 as France 2 and France 3 respectively.[4]
In August 2000, France Télévisions S.A. was formed as a holding company for France's public television channels, absorbing control of France 2, France 3, and fellow public channel La Cinquième (later re-named France 5). In 2004, Réseau France Outre-mer was absorbed by France Télévisions. Beginning in 2008, the President of France took the duty of naming the presidents for the French public broadcasters; they were previously nominated by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel.
Logos [edit]
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Logo of France Télévision from 7 April 2008 to 5 September 2011
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Logo of France Télévision from 5 September 2011
Channels [edit]
National [edit]
- 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.
Thematic [edit]
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.
International [edit]
| 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.
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ French Public Broadcaster Goes For HbbTV. Online Reporter 13 September 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2012
- ^ Rollet, Brigitte. "Television in France", in Television in Europe, pp. 39–40. Eds. Coleman, James A.; Rollet, Brigitte. Intellect Books, 1997. ISBN 1-871516-92-7
- ^ Rigourd, Serge. "France", in Western Broadcasting at the Dawn of the 21st Century, pp. 255, 270. Eds. Haenens, Leen; Saeys, Frieda. Walter de Gruyter, 2001. ISBN 3-11-017386-7
- ^ Hart, Jeffrey A. Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV, p. 46. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-82624-1
External links [edit]
- Official site (French)
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