France Télévisions

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France Télévisions SA

Type	Société anonyme
Founded	2000
Headquarters	France Télévisions SA 7, esplanade Henri de France 75015 Paris
Key people	Patrick de Carolis: Chief Executive Officer Patrice Duhamel : Vice-President and Director General of Broadcasting.
Revenue	2,727 million EUR
Employees	11,400
Website	www.francetelevisions.fr

The headquarters in Paris of France Télévisions

France Télévisions is the French public national television broadcaster. It is funded mostly by television licences and advertising.

1 Channels
- 1.1 National
- 1.2 Thematic
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Channels

[edit] National

France 2 - Primary Channel with the second largest viewing audience (after TF1)
France 3 - Network of regional stations (similar to the UK's ITV)
France 4 - Only available on digital television, concentrates on the Arts, Music and Entertainment
France 5 - Focuses on Employment, Education and Health
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RFO - (Réseau France Outre-mer) a network of radio and television stations operating in French overseas departments and territories around the world.

[edit] Thematic

France Télévisions has interest in a number of thematic cable/satellite channels in France:

Gulli
Ma Planète
Planète Thalassa
Mezzo

It has a significant share in 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 broadcast multiplex that currently hosts France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, and the parliamentary channel LCP/AN (La Chaîne Parlementaire/Assemblée Nationale) shared with Public Senat.