TV Breizh

TV Breizh is a private French television station with the main circulation in Brittany ( Breizh in Breton ). Headquartered in Lorient. According to the company nearly 12 million people receive the channel via cable or satellite; that should serve about 3 million subscribers.

History

On 1 September 2000, the station took the help of TF1 and Patrick Le Lay on his work. TV Breizh broadcasts programs about the region and repetitions of TF1 made ​​in Breton language. Due to financial problems of TF1 and against the background that the French regulatory body for television and radio channels, the Conseil supérieur de l' audiovisual, would further limit the influence of state-controlled stations, had to reduce its transmit time TV Breizh from 2003. With his efforts to get your own digital terrestrial frequency for a 24 - hour program, the station in 2004 had failed; was instead with Nantes 7 a French- regional station of Nantes - historically part of Brittany, who, however, does not belong to the same administrative region today - considered. These operations are seen by regional leaders as further evidence of how hard the central French authorities do with the cultural self-determination of the regions.

Programs

The programs focus mainly on news and regional coverage, but increasingly feature films and television series are shown to attract wider audiences of a subscription of TVB.