France Télévisions
France Télévisions is the public service broadcaster in France, based in Paris and is 100 percent owned by the French Republic. The Hörfunkpendant is Radio France. Founded France Télévisions on 7 September 1992 by Hervé Bourges from the two public broadcasters antenna 2 (later France 2 ) and FR3 (later France 3). France 2 is next to the former also public, since 1987, but privatized TF1 one of the two main French programs. France 3 is a republic far radiated full program, which is characterized primarily by regional and local divergence circuits under the midday and evening information routes ( the former name FR 3 stood for France Régions 3), and takes over for France about the role of the German third party programs or the Italian Rai 3.
Since 2 August 2000 France part 5 (formerly La Cinquième ) as the third transmitter to France Télévisions. With the transmitters RFO ( since 9 July 2004), France Ô (formerly RFO Sat, since 25 February 2005) and France 4 (formerly Festival, since 31 March 2005) the number of transmitters in the years 2004 and 2005 was expanded.
During parliamentary debates and related information in Germany are also broadcast by public broadcasting, especially in Phoenix, is not this part of the coverage in France on France Télévisions; in the form of public Senate, there is a personal responsibility of the Houses of Parliament specialty channel.
Business
France Télévisions is also a shareholder of the French niche channel Gulli, Ma Planète, Planète Thalassa and Mezzo. It also has interests in ARTE France ( the French co-partner of the French-German cultural channel Arte ), the European news channel euro news, the international francophone culture channel TV5 Monde (comparable to 3sat ) and France24, the French-speaking news channel (similar to German Welle TV ).
In 2005 the company had more than 10,000 employees, its transmitter to achieve a market share of 40 percent. France Télévisions is a member of the European Broadcasting Union. Institution media said the 2008 had a turnover of 2.75 billion euros. Director since the August 22, 2010 Rémy Pflimlin.
TV station
- France 2: Main station
- France 3: Regional Programme
- France 4: Music, Art
- France 5: Educational program and television discussions
- Outre- Mer 1ère: special regional program for belonging to France including areas outside Europe
France 2, 3, 5 and Ô be received together with the Parliament TV free via Eutelsat 5 West A ( 11,591 MHz vertical, ksymbols 20000, FEC 2/3 QPSK ), while elsewhere they are encrypted.