| France 4 | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 24 June 1996 |
| Owned by | France Télévisions |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audience share | 2.0% (November 2011, Médiamétrie) |
| Slogan | Stimulant sans arômes artificiels and Elle n'a pas fini de vous surprendre |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Formerly called | Festival (1996-2005) |
| Sister channel(s) | France 2 France 3 France 5 France Ô |
| Website | www.france4.fr |
France 4 is a french public channel owned by France Télévisions, dedicated to the entertainment. At first named Festival, the channel took its current name in 2005, to mark better its membership to the group France Télévisions. The color of France 4 is the purple. It is accessible on the french DTT (TNT: Télévision Numérique Terrestre), on the cable, on the satellite and on IPTV.
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On June 24th, 1996, France Télévision (without s) dashes into the adventure of thematic channels to feed the new satellite bouquet TPS and the group of which is a shareholder in 25 %. For that purpose, it creates Festival, a public thematic channel spread on the satellite then resumed on cable networks, which proposes prestigious movies of cinema and television, mythical works having made the quality of the television in the noble size of the length-measurement, the legends and the TV - novels. Festival is an excellent solution for France Télévision and ARTE France because she allows both groups, which enormously invested in the French quality fiction for France 2, France 3 and ARTE, to offer a second life to their productions without suffering from the competition and to satisfy a real wait of the televiewers of the moment. The genre not being however stretchable in the infinity, the programs fall fast in the repeat broadcast.
In 2001, while the french DTT is only in the state of project in France, the socialist government of Lionel Jospin asks to the president of France Télévisions to think about a project of bouquet of public channels broadcasted on the french DTT, so that the public utility holds a place of choice in this project. The power sees in the DTT the technical revolution for which he waited for a long time to develop and rebalance the weight of the public channel worsened further to the privatization of TF1 in 1987. France Télévisions proposes then the creation of three new channels: France 1, France 4 and France 6, is an all-news channel, a channel dedicated to regions and a channel of repeat broadcast of the programs of France 2 and France 3 in moved schedules. Meanwhile, the power changed edge and the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin revises the propositions downwards in a budgetary rigorous context.
The public television will have four channels on the DTT besides France 2 and France 3, but three of them will be occupied by already existing chains(channels): France 5 spread 24 hours a day, Arte 24 hours a day too and La Chaîne Parlementaire. France Télévisions thus has only a channel to propose a channel. For lack of support and of credits, the group eventually proposes Festival and asks to Philippe Chazal, his Chief Executive Officer, to think about a new more attractive railing. On October 23rd, 2002, the CSA (FRENCH BROADCASTING AUTHORITY) holds Festival to appear on the public multiplex of the DTT. Having almost to be called France 8 or France Prime, the channel is finally renamed France 4, joining the series of the declensions of France Télévisions, by skipping into a place still not occupied between France 3 and France 5. She proposes a new rather similar railing of that of France Supervision: The entertainment, the sport, the fiction, the cinema and the series. To amuse, to create the event, make discover, fascinate, such are the main objectives of this new channel.
Since July, 2009, France 4 is totally broadcasted in the 16:9 size.
Since October 6th, 2011, France 4 is available in high definition.
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Annual average | |
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| 2007 | 0,4% | 0,5% | 0,5% | 0,6% | 0,5% | 0,4% | 0,5% | 0,6% | 0,4% | ||||
| 2008 | 0,6% | 0,6% | 0,7% | 0,8% | 0,9% | 0,8% | 0,9% | 0,9% | 0,9% | 1,1% | 1,1% | 1,1% | 0,9% |
| 2009 | 1,0% | 1,0% | 1,0% | 1,0% | 1,1% | 1,0% | 1,0% | 1,0% | 1,0% | 1,2% | 1,2% | 1,3% | 1,1% |
| 2010 | 1,4% | 1,4% | 1,6% | 1,7% | 1,7% | 1,6% | 1,5% | 1,5% | 1,6% | 1,7% | 1,7% | 1,8% | 1,6% |
| 2011 | 1.7% | 1.7% | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2.0% | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2.1% | 2.0% | 1.9% | 2.0% |
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