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Not to be confused with France Five or La Cinq.
France 5
CountryFrance
Programming
Language(s)French
Ownership
OwnerFrance Télévisions

France 5 (pronounced [fʁɑ̃s sɛ̃k]) 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 today available around the clock. Earlier – before completion of the switchover to digital broadcasting on 29 November 2011 – the channel's analogue frequencies had carried the programmes of the Franco-German cultural channel Arte between 19.00 each evening and 3.00 the following morning.

History

France 5 was called La Cinquième (The Fifth) until January 2002. It was launched on 28 March 1994 as a temporary channel under the name Télé emploi, more than one year after France's first privately-owned free television network, La Cinq, suffered a financial collapse and ceased operations on 12 April 1992. La Cinquième started broadcasting on 13 December 1994 with a mix of small educational programs, during the hours not used by Arte (which launched less than 2 months after La Cinq's closure).

La Cinquième was integrated in the new France Télévisions public holding in 2000, which already owned Antenne 2 (since renamed France 2) and FR3 (France Régions 3, since renamed France 3); it would be rebranded as France 5 on 7 January 2002. 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).

Logos

  • logo from 2008 to 2018
    logo from 2008 to 2018
  • France 5 HD logo, 2008-2018
    France 5 HD logo, 2008-2018
  • Logo from 29 January 2018
    Logo from 29 January 2018
  • Alternative logo from 29 January 2018
    Alternative logo from 29 January 2018

Programmes

Documentaries

[citation needed]

Magazines

  • Allo docteurs
  • Dr. CAC
  • C dans l'air
  • C à vous
  • C à dire?!
  • C politique
  • C'est notre affaire
  • C'est notre histoire
  • Echappées belles
  • Empreintes
  • Entrée libre
  • L'emploi par le net
  • La Grande Librairie
  • La Maison France 5
  • Le Doc du dimanche
  • Le Magazine de la santé
  • Les escapades de Petitrenaud
  • Les Maternelles
  • Médias, le magazine
  • La Quotidienne
  • Revu et corrigé
  • Silence, ça pousse ! ...

Children's programs

See also

References

  1. ^ "Les 10 ans du succès pour France 5". Toutelatele (in French). 13 December 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
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