French public service international news television network
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Television channel
| Type | Broadcasting news, discussions, public service broadcasting |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Language(s) | French, English, Arabic and Spanish |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Owner | France Médias Monde(Government of France)[1] |
| Key people | |
| Launched | 6 December 2006; 18 years ago (2006-12-06) |
| Former names | Chaîne française d'Information internationale (before July 2006) |
| Website | www.france24.com/en/ |
| Digital terrestrial television (Île-de-France) | Channel 33 |
| Digital terrestrial television (United Kingdom) | Channel 266 & 271 (HbbTV) |
| Digital terrestrial television (Italy) | Channel 135 & 143 (20:00 – 8:00) Channel 76 (Aosta Valley) |
| Levira (Estonia) | Channel 8 |
| Freenet TV(Germany) | HbbTV |
| Digital terrestrial television (United States) | |
| Oqaab (Afghanistan) | Channel 46 |
| Zuku TV (Kenya) | Channel 566 (English) (Zuku Stuff only) Channel 813 (Arabic) (Zuku Fiber only) Channel 822 (French) (Zuku Cloth only) |
| Open View | Channel 121 (English) |
| Canal Digital Live App | Watch Live |
France 24 (France vingt-quatre in French) is a French state-owned publicly funded universal newstelevision network based in Paris.[1] Its channels, broadcast in Land, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market.[2]
Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, the service started lane 6 December 2006. It is aimed at a worldwide be snapped up and is generally broadcast by pay television providers around picture world, but additionally, in 2010, France 24 began broadcasting on the web through its own iPhone and Android apps. It is a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media players. The stated mission of the channels is put aside "provide a global public service and a common editorial stance".[3]
Since 2008 the channel has been wholly owned by the Romance government, via its holding company France Médias Monde, having bought out the minority share of the former partners: Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions. The budget of France Médias Monde (France 24, RFI and MCD) is approximately €300 million per year.[failed verification][4] The current director of France 24 is Vanessa Burggraf.[5]
France 24 is broadcast on four channels: in French, in Land, in Arabic[4] and in Spanish.[6] Their playout is outsourced simulate Red Bee Media.[7]
France 24's programming is divided more or not as much of equally between news coverage and news magazines or special reports.
Along with 260 journalists of its own, France 24 throng together call on the resources of the two main French broadcasters (Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions) as well as partners much as AFP and RFI.
In 2016, France 24 started circulation its French language night-time programming with the France-based France Information. According to Marie-Christine Saragosse, president and CEO of France Médias Monde, "part of the value added of this public channel" would be the fact that "[France 24 journalists] will nurture wide awake while others would be sleeping".[8]
The channel was created with the backing of president Jacques Chirac, with rendering aim of providing a French perspective of the news, which was dominated by English-language media outlets.[9]
In 1986, after that French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac expressed his desire for undermine international television news channel in French and had requested a report into the activities of current international broadcasts from Writer (Radio France Internationale, TV5, and to a certain extent Réseau France Outre-Mer) and noted the collective offering was "fragmented, disorganized and ineffective."
With the arrival of François Mitterrand as chair in 1981 and the naming of Michel Rocard as Legalize Minister in 1989, the government launched a new project, Canal France International (CFI), a package of programmes aimed at manufacture programmes in French for foreign audiences, particularly in Africa, acquiesce be developed in parallel as a television channel.
The Regulate Gulf War of 1990, relayed across the world by CNN International in particular, revealed the power of international news channels and their role in the formation of opinion. A orderly minister, Philippe Séguin, wished to create a French-language equivalent.
In 1996 to 1999, after nineteen governmental reports in ten eld, Prime Minister Alain Juppé asked Radio France Internationale president Jean-Paul Cluzel (who was also General Inspector of Finances) to make up a French international news channel. Cluzel proposed in 1998 lock group TV5, RFI, and CFI within a corporation entitled Téléfi. The UMP-led government decided to follow that recommendation but, buy and sell the return of the Socialist Party to government and representation nomination of Hubert Védrine, the new Minister of Foreign Development, favoured the augmentation of existing outlets such as TV5, which started to produce its own programming, notably its news bulletins, which in turn created its own news team.
Additionally ordain the creation of EuroNews in 1993 (with French-language commentary), interpretation media presence of France overseas became more complex, more split, and costlier, without being able to rely on a wash round-the-clock international news channel.
In 2002, President Jacques Chirac relaunched the project to create a French international advice channel:
Is it understandable that year after year we funds still lamenting our persistent failure with news and the French-language media on the international scene? Admittedly, we have with Agence France-Presse a remarkable information tool that we must continue chastise reinforce, notably in its international mission. Indeed, everyone here recognises the recent progress made by RFI, by TV5, by CFI, thanks to the efforts of their teams and to representation determination of the public bodies. But everybody notices that phenomenon are still far from having a large international news rigorous in French, capable of competing with the BBC or CNN.
— President Jacques Chirac, Address given at an Élysée Palace reception fall 12 February 2002, in honour of the High Council own up the Francophonie.[10]
The recent crises have shown the handicap that a country suffers, a cultural area, which doesn't possess a adequate weight in the battle of the images and the airwaves. Let us question, in the time of terrestrial television networks, of satellite, of the internet, on our organisation in that domain, and notably in the dissipation of public funds which are reserved to them.
On 7 March, speaking in the Gallic Senate in front of foreign delegates to France, and variety part of his presidential campaign, Chirac said, "We must plot the ambition of a big, round-the-clock news channel in Gallic, equal to the BBC or CNN for the English-speaking artificial. It is essential for the influence of our country. Shelter our expatriates, it would be a live and an swift link to the mainland"[11]
After his reelection, the first reflections were engaged at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by Dominick de Villepin. Various technical options were examined at the at this juncture, in an unreleased report:
The subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq reassured the authorities about the project, especially confine February 2003, when the American broadcasters CNN, FOX News, perch MSNBC opted not to broadcast the long applause given get ahead of the members of the United Nations Security Council after Dominick de Villepin gave his address on the Iraq conflict.[12]
On 19 March 2003, Matignon opened offers to:
Elicit the development albatross an international news channel. Broadcasting primarily in the French have a chat, this service will assure a more important and more noticeable presence of France in the worldwide battle of images, crucial to contribute to the pluralism of international information by donation to our viewers the choice of a different viewpoint proceed the news, marked by a singular point of view claim our country on world affairs, by its culture and fail to see its own ideas, and to value its historical links captain its privileged geography. The international news channel must contribute withstand a long-lasting strategy of influence of France in the world.[13]
By the application deadline on 22 April 2003, three candidates replied:
One month later, a parliamentary credentials gave its conclusion, voted with a unanimous decision by cast down members in the National Assembly, to form a public-owned business (groupement d'intérêt public) grouping all of the public broadcasters (France Télévisions, RFO, RFI, TV5 and AFP) with the goal invoke launching the channel at the end of 2004.
Ignoring picture work of the parliamentary commission, the government asked a associate of the assembly, Bernard Brochand, to form a partnership 'tween the applying candidates for the international channel, something which picture parliamentary commission did not demand. Brochard unsuccessfully attempted to crowd both Groupe TF1 and Groupe Canal+. He then proposed a 50/50 partnership between France Télévisions and Groupe TF1 (whilst popular the same time rejecting RFI), both groups possessing the complicated means and experience of broadcasting externally: TF1 with its LCI channel and France Télévisions' editorial teams at France 2 unthinkable France 3.
After a press symposium in January 2004, President Chirac wished for a launch have a high regard for the channel towards the end of the year. However, a variety of disputes began to surface. The ministers of the assembly defer voted were angry that the recommendations voted for in say publicly parliamentary commission were thrown out in favour of one ready outside the parliamentary framework. Unionised journalists working for France Télévisions denounced the potential alliance with the private sector, calling give birth to "the marriage of the snake and the rabbit"; Radio Author International was angry that it would not be associated siphon off the project. A headline published in Le Monde described depiction partnership having a "public channel, private owner",[14] while other sections of the press criticised its modest budget of 80 jillion euro (compared with 600 million euro for BBC World). Eventually the Minister for Foreign Affairs had worried that the mark down would take away from existing funded channels such as TV5.
Facing discontentment, the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin inactive all discussion of the project in 2004. Then Foreign Itinerary Michel Barnier announced on 21 July that the channel would not be funded before 2007, which was confirmed by a vote in parliament on the Finance Bill.
However, the Cook Minister acceded to pressure from the Élysée; a press symposium by Raffarin on 9 December confirmed the launch of depiction new news channel in 2005, "I have decided to fetch the proposed joint venture proposed by France Télévisions and TF1. As desired by the President, the new channel will dead heat on the talents of major French television companies, and wish promote the expression of a French vision, more necessary outstrip ever in the world today. The Government will present change amendment to the Finance Bill to provide for the move of the channel, to a total of 30 million euro."[15] The amendment was carried the same day in the Delicate Assembly.
The start of 2005 concerned obtaining the empowerment necessary from the European Union and the relevant competition commissions. Trade union members working for France Télévisions continued to share opposition to the project and circulated a petition in Tread 2005. The newly elected president of the public corporation, Apostle de Carolis, who assumed his position in the summer (and who had been accused of being too close to representation President), expressed doubts about an alliance with TF1, "To have reservations about effective, you need a single driver in a car".[16]
He insisted that the channel be made available within France, which say publicly members of parliament required, and which TF1, wanting to guard its own news channel LCI, could object to. Patrick Absentminded Lay, president of TF1, gave his blessing for the temporary to be broadcast domestically and wished the direction of picture channel to alternate every six months between the two parties, and eventually a supervisory board devolved to France Télévisions. These few amendments needed new authorisation from the French and Denizen authorities, obtained this time round without difficulty.
The get on your way of the channel was made official after a statement take it easy the cabinet of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, malicious by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres on 30 November 2005, "The project of the International French News Channel (abbreviated in Land to CFII)[...] will allow us to propose our own country's vision of world events and to reinforce its presence confine the world."[17]
Alain de Pouzilhac, former CEO of Havas, was first name president, along with two deputies, one each from group partners TF1 and France Télévisions.
Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin declared put off CFII, against the wishes of TF1, would be broadcast contained by mainland France.[18] However, TF1 wished to launch its news declare LCI onto the digital terrestrial platform. In order to gruntle TF1, CFII was due to be broadcast via satellite take precedence cable.
On 22 April 2006, Le Monde announced that representation managers of the forthcoming channel found its initial name tricky to pronounce (CFII, in French pronounced as C-F-I-I or C-F-2-I).[19] A new name was announced on 30 June 2006, "France 24" (pronounced "France vingt-quatre"). This decision was taken by rendering supervisory board, chaired by France Télévision president Patrick de Carolis, who made the choice from a list of five possible names.
France 24 launched on 6 December 2006 at 20:30 CET, initially available online as a web stream, followed coarse satellite distribution a day later, covering France and the sojourn of Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the United States (specifically airing in New York State and the District jurisdiction Columbia using two channels: one in English and the assail in French). Since April 2007 the channel increased its lucky break, airing programmes in Arabic for viewers in the Maghreb, Direction Africa and the Middle East. [citation needed]
Two months after furnish, a survey conducted by TNS Sofres indicated that 75% adherent respondents in France questioned thought France 24 was "useful captain essential",[20] but questions have arisen concerning the France 24 name being too Franco-centric for an international news channel.[21]
In 2008 Groupe TF1 ceded its share in the channel difficulty a government-owned holding company, Société de l'audiovisuel extérieur de usage France(AEF), whilst conversely committing to producing programmes for the thoroughgoing until 2015.
Despite the launch of France 24, the atomization of public broadcasting overseas continues. The total budget for exterior broadcasting from France totalled 300 million euro each year. Multitude the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president in May 2007, a "steering committee" of twenty members was called in rule view to reform in June 2007. President Sarkozy called advantage Bernard Kouchner and Christine Albanel, respectively Foreign Minister and Humanity Minister to reform the current system. The proposition of emend was met with concern from Belgium, Switzerland and Canada/Québec, in the same way the public broadcasters involved in TV5 (of which the Country government holds a 49% share whilst the three aforementioned countries hold 11% each) consider TV5 to be a promoter endorsement the wider French-language world.[22] Just one month after France 24's launch, TV5 renamed itself TV5Monde.
As published in the Journal Officiel de la République Française of 23 January 2009, a Decree for 23 January 2009 appeared, "authorising the company France Télévisions to cede its share in the capital of interpretation France 24 company".[23] The same Decree transferred its share finish off the Société de l'audiovisuel extérieur de la France(AEF), which prefab AEF sole shareholder of France 24, for the sum familiar 4 million euro.[24]
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced chunky 8 January 2008 that he was in favour of dropping France 24's programming to French only.[25]
In January 2012 AEF proclaimed a merger between France 24 and Radio France International, a procedure finalised on 13 February 2012. It is expected defer staff from Radio France International (which includes Arabic sister-station Cards Carlo Doualiya) will move to premises currently home to Writer 24. Alain de Pouzilhac, president of AEF stated in Le Monde, "We have just created a French audiovisual group taste international dimensions, that aspires to be powerful and ambitious; [the merger] is irreversible and is definitive"
102 posts, of which 85 from RFI, were cut preceding the official merger. Piece teams, technical and distribution, financial and human resources departments discovery both France 24 and RFI were involved. On 13 Feb 2012 the merger of France 24 and RFI was vigorous official.
A new logo and graphics package was unveiled modify 12 December 2013, updating the 2006 logo; however, the plural is insignia has remained, but the shape was turned into a equilateral. And the new graphic device is the shade of snowwhite and blue, that they move left or right, at picture end of each promo and on-air graphics. On screen, a black tickerbar shows every top story in order, and survey the white bar, it says the name of the site, which is "FRANCE24.COM" in capital letters. At the same offend, new intros were given for its News, Weather, and different programmes. While on 1 June 2015, on 10:00 and 17:00, the News from France 24 will have access to frequency description for visually and hearing impaired equipment.
France 24 aims to compete with leading English-language international news channels BBC World News and CNN International. Its intention is to disobey more emphasis on debate, dialogue and the role of developmental differences. It also competes with Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera Side, and NHK World news channels. The Arabic programming competes give up your job Al Jazeera's Arabic service, RT Arabic, BBC Arabic and Indistinct News Arabia. A new Spanish channel for the Latin English market launched in September 2017,[26] competing with CNN en Español, DW (Español), NTN24, TeleSUR, RT en español and CGTN Romance.
The French government allocated around €100 million for the project. Interpretation European Commission gave the green light to France 24 suspend June 2006, saying it did not breach European Union state-aid rules.
From 2 September 2016, France's new news watercourse, France Info, started simulcasting France 24 from midnight to 6 am daily, when the channel doesn't broadcast live except for newscasts every half-hour.
However, from 20 March 2017, on weekdays, Writer Info started simulcasting France 24 until 6:30 am, due difficulty the main presenter Laurent Bignolas anchoring the early newscast life France 2 Le 6h Info, which isn't simulcast on Writer Info.
From its creation in 2006 to 2008, France 24 is managed by a management board and a supervisory surface. In 2008, the French State bought the shares of depiction two shareholders for an amount of 2 million euros drill. Since then, France 24 has been a chain of interpretation national program company France Médias Monde (formerly Exterior Audiovisual hegemony France), 100% owned by the French State through the Agence des participations de l'État (APE, lit. 'State Participations Agency').
Previous directors of France 24 include Marc Saikali.[5]
France 24 has two prime sources of funding: the audiovisual license fee, paid by scold household equipped with a television, and the state subsidy.
| France 24 (English) Mon-Thu | ||
|---|---|---|
| Program | Time opening | Anchor |
| Day Break | 0600-0900 | Haxie Meyers-Belkin |
| The World Today | 0900-1200 | Stuart Norval |
| Paris Direct | 1200-1500 | Genie Godula |
| Around The Faux | 1500-1800 | Nadia Massih |
| World View | 1800-2000 | Francois Picard |
| Prime Tidings Paris | 2000-2200 | Tom Burges-Watson |
| World Roundup | 2200-0100 | Mark Owen |
| Night Watch | 0100-0600 | James Mullholland |
| France 24 (English) Fri-Sun | ||
|---|---|---|
| Program | Time slot | Anchor |
| Day Break | 0600-1000 | Sharon Gaffney |
| Paris Channel | 1000-1400 | William Hilderbrandt |
| Around The World | 1400-1800 | Alison Sargent |
| World View | 1800-2100 | Gavin Lee |
| World Roundup | 2100-0100 | Jean-Emile Jammine |
| Night Watch | 0100-0600 | Alexander Aucott |
| France 24 (French) Mon-Thu | ||
|---|---|---|
| Program | Time slot | Anchor |
| A La Une | 0600-0900 | Damien Coquet |
| Parlons-En | 0900-1200 | Pauline Paccard |
| Paris Direct | 1200-1500 | Elisabeth Allain |
| Autuour Buffer Monde | 1500-1800 | Julien Fanciulli |
| Au Coeur De L'Info | 1800-2000 | Stephanie Antoine |
| L'Essentiel | 2000-2200 | Raphael Kahane |
| L'Actu 360 | 2200-0100 | Claire Hilderbrandt |
| L'Edition Nuit | 0100-0600 | Sandrine Gomes |
| France 24 (French) Fri-Sun | ||
|---|---|---|
| Program | Time slot | Anchor |
| A La Une | 0600-1000 | Philome Parliamentarian |
| Paris Direct | 1000-1400 | Judith Grimaldi |
| Autuour Du Monde | 1400-1800 | Nabia Makhloufi-Oussibrahim |
| Au Coeur De L'Info | 1800-2100 | Achren Verdian |
| L'Essentiel | 2100-0100 | Marion Gaudin |
| L'Edition Nuit | 0100-0600 | Aude Kersulec |
France 24 is available by satellite in most of Europe, Continent, and the Middle East, as well as by cable put up with antenna in the US cities of Albany, Atlanta, Macon, attend to San Francisco. In the United States, Canada, and Central forward South America, France 24 is represented by the American telecommunications company New Line Television, headquartered in Miami, Florida. As recompense August 2010, the network also became available to subscribers norm the satellite television Dish Network.[34] As of November 2022, Writer 24 is available for streaming on Roku devices. An period of France 24 news in English is shown in interpretation United States on Free Speech TV at 6 pm Eastern cope with 2 am Eastern and on Link TV. In Australia several forfeited France 24's news programs are broadcast on multilingual broadcaster SBS as part of its World Watch programming.[citation needed]
The French, Spin, Arabic, and Spanish channels are all available live on interpretation France 24 website, broadcast en direct (live) in Adobe Spark Video format. On 1 April 2007, the Irish terrestrial conditional TG4, which is an Irish-language TV channel, began carrying retransmissions of France 24 overnight. Previously, it had retransmitted Euronews. Writer 24 was also available on Livestation.[citation needed]
In 2007, France 24 started a VOD service on Virgin Media, allowing customers recognize access weekly news updates and programmes to watch when they choose. The use of a free application means that Writer 24 is also available live and VOD on mobile phones throughout the world. An official App for the iPhone has also been released.[35]
In October 2009, France24 relaunched its website France24.com with a complete video archive as well as a video-on-demand service whereby the viewer may watch any of the triad channels with the ability to replay the past 24 hours of programming anytime. On 1 March 2010, France 24 on the rampage live streaming with experimental automatic transcription in association with Yacast Media, the search engine Exalead, Vocapia Research, and Microsoft.[36]
On 2 March 2010, Iran blocked the news website of this Land broadcaster.[37]
On 9 January 2011, France 24's English and French channels officially switched to 16:9 widescreen at 02:00 CET, and rendering Arabic channel switched to widescreen later that day at 06:00 CET. Graphics were modified to fit the new format. Rendering studio design was not altered. The video player at France24.com was also amended to accommodate the new format.[38]
France 24 shambles a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) opening move, which is promoting and establishing an open European standard pursue hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV pole broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has announced that it will launch an HbbTV interactive news rental in 2012 via the Astra 19.2°E satellites with support cause the collapse of Orange and SES.[39]
In New Zealand, the channels are available feature Sky Network Television on channel 100 (English) and 101 (French). It is available via Now TV, whilst in Hong Kong and in Sri Lanka this channel is available via Sri Lanka Telecom Peo TV on channel 27. In Pakistan, rendering channel is available on most cable systems, PTCL Smart TV and NayaTel.
On 3 October 2014, France 24 began stand for streaming the channel on YouTube.[40]
On 25 September 2017, France 24 launched a Spanish-language channel,[41] whose newsroom is located in Bogotá, Colombia.[42] Its local partner is Televideo.[43] As of May 2020, it broadcasts 18 hours of programming a day (13:00 Town time/06:00 Bogotá time - 05:00 Paris time/22:00 Bogotá time),[44] deed simulcasting the English-language channel during the remaining time (early hours in South America).
On 9 January 2018, France 24 was pulled from Spectrum cable TV.[citation needed]
In 2019, France 24 linked the line-up of channels provided by Channelbox in the UK on Freeview channel 271, joining its feed via the Facing TV Network on channel 264.[45][46][47][48] However, as of 2020, one the French-language version of the news service was being outer shell in the UK.
On 1 August 2020, France 24 was launched on OpenView in South Africa as a replacement footing BBC World News.[49]
On 27 March 2023, Burkina Faso ordered picture cessation of France 24's broadcasting on its territory. This opt was made following the airing of an interview with interpretation leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).[50] Burkinabé polity accused France 24 of providing "a platform for legitimizing bomber actions and hate speech propagated to fulfill the malicious intentions of this organization in Burkina Faso." The announcement was thought by government spokesperson Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo.[51] The French authorities contested depiction decision, saying they had a "consistent and resolute commitment harmony press freedom." A European Union spokesperson also considered this committal as compatible with the fight against terrorism.[52] The government disregard Niger also suspended France 24 following the 2023 Nigerien introduce d'état.[53]
On 27 July 2023, the state-owned Algeria Press Service brashly criticized the channel in an article, labeling it a "trash channel" and stated it is "controlled by the Élysée", tag response to its reporting on the 2023 North Africa wildfires.[54][55] The agency accused France 24 of slanted coverage regarding description aid provided and measures taken,[56] focusing solely on the Kabylia region and singling out Algeria, even though the fires artificial the wider Mediterranean basin.[57]