| TF1 | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 26 April 1935 |
| Owned by | TF1 Group |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audience share | 23.7% (2011, Médiamétrie) |
| Slogan | On se retrouve sur TF1 |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Formerly called | Radio-PTT Vision (1935–1939) RN Télévision (1939–1943) Fernsehsender Paris (1943–1944) Télévision Française (1944–1945) RDF (1945–1949) RTF (1949–1963) Première chaîne de la RTF (1963–1964) Première Chaîne de l'ORTF (1964–1975) |
| Sister channel(s) | Eurosport LCI TF6 TMC NT1 TV Breizh Stylia Histoire Ushuaia TV Série Club |
| Website | tf1.fr |
TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network. Flagship shows include Star Academy (Endemol's international competitor to the X Factor franchise), CSI and House, M.D..
TF1 originally stood for Télévision Française 1 (French Television 1). Since its privatisation in 1987, the abbreviation is no longer expanded, so as to avoid confusion with the government-owned channel France Télévisions.
The channel is part of the TF1 Group of mass media companies, which also includes the news channel LCI and Eurosport, the largest European sports network. Together with France Télévisions, TF1 co-managed the international French news channel France 24 but has since sold its share.
TF1 is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative (a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.
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In 2005, TF1 launched TF1Vision, a video on demand service.
| 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 |
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| 45,4% | 50,4% | 50,4% | 46,8% | 47,3% | 46,3% | 42,3% | 37,9% | 39,1% | 38,6% | 38,2% | 42,1% | 44,8% | 41,0% | 41,9% | 42,1% | 41,0% | 41,0% | 39,5% | 37,3% |
From 1983 to 1986, TF1 was second behind Antenne 2.
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | Decembre | Year | |
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| 1996 | 35,6% | 33,1% | 35,6% | 35,0% | 35,1% | 33,7% | 34,0% | 35,4% | |||||
| 1997 | 34,6% | 35,6% | 34,5% | 34,9% | 35,3% | 35,7% | 32,8% | 35,8% | 34,8% | 34,9% | 34,2% | 37,0% | 35,0% |
| 1998 | 34,1% | 34,0% | 35,2% | 35,6% | 35,2% | 34,8% | 34,7% | 36,4% | 37,2% | 36,1% | 35,2% | 35,3% | 35,3% |
| 1999 | 34,9% | 36,5% | 35,6% | 35,9% | 34,2% | 35,1% | 33,0% | 34,7% | 34,7% | 36,1% | 35,2% | 35,2% | 35,1% |
| 2000 | 33,9% | 33,9% | 32,6% | 33,4% | 34,4% | 34,1% | 33,2% | 33,5% | 31,8% | 33,8% | 33,2% | 33,0% | 33,4% |
| 2001 | 33,8% | 33,3% | 33,6% | 32,5% | 31,8% | 31,8% | 31,3% | 33,7% | 33,6% | 32,0% | 32,0% | 32,8% | 32,7% |
| 2002 | 33,5% | 31,9% | 31,9% | 31,1% | 31,9% | 34,5% | 31,2% | 34,2% | 32,4% | 33,2% | 33,2% | 32,9% | 32,7% |
| 2003 | 31,9% | 31,3% | 31,8% | 30,5% | 31,1% | 31,6% | 31,1% | 31,3% | 31,4% | 32,4% | 30,8% | 32,2% | 31,5% |
| 2004 | 32,7% | 31,8% | 31,8% | 32,5% | 33,0% | 32,2% | 31,1% | 30,1% | 32,0% | 32,0% | 31,1% | 31,4% | 31,8% |
| 2005 | 32,2% | 32,1% | 32,7% | 31,4% | 31,7% | 31,2% | 32,6% | 34,5% | 33,4% | 33,4% | 31,5% | 31,9% | 32,3% |
| 2006 | 32,0% | 30,2% | 31,5% | 31,9% | 31,2% | 32,8% | 33,8% | 32,8% | 31,3% | 31,7% | 30,2% | 30,7% | 31,6% |
| 2007 | 30,7% | 31,0% | 31,0% | 30,3% | 31,4% | 30,5% | 30,2% | 31,6% | 31,8% | 31,8% | 29,3% | 28,9% | 30,7% |
| 2008 | 28,0% | 27,5% | 28,0% | 27,2% | 27,2% | 27,5% | 27,1% | 27,7% | 28,0% | 26,2% | 26,1% | 26,2% | 27,2% |
| 2009 | 26,7% | 26,2% | 26,7% | 26,3% | 25,5% | 25,9% | 25,7% | 26,7% | 26,6% | 26,2% | 25,8% | 24,8% | 26,1% |
| 2010 | 25,1% | 25,1% | 25,1% | 24,3% | 24,0% | 25,1% | 23,9% | 24,0% | 24,1% | 24,7% | 24,3% | 24,6% | 24,5% |
| 2011 | 24,0% | 23,9% | 24,5% | 23,2% | 23,6% | 23,3% | 22,8%** | 23,4% | 24,1% | 24.5% | 23.0% | 23.7% | |
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Some commentators accuse TF1 of being an excessively populist, commercialised channel. There is a clear emphasis on "light" entertainment programmes over more serious content, and the channel's success is sometimes seen as being founded on the ménagères de moins de 50 ans (housewives under 50) audience segment. Certainly, a large proportion of the schedule consists of gameshows, sensational documentaries and dubbed versions of TV series. The channel's news service is perceived as consisting of more celebrity news and human-interest stories than its public-sector competitors.
On 16 April 2009, the employee responsible for the "Web innovation" department was fired for criticizing the Hadopi law in a private email (on 19 February) sent to a Member of Parliament. The management of TF1 was notified about the e-mail by the Ministry for Culture and Communication, whom Ministry Christine Albanel is also one the authors of the Hadopi law.[1][2][3]
In 2004 Patrick Le Lay, CEO of TF1 made the following statement about the channel's aims:
"There are many ways to speak about TV, but in a business perspective, let's be realistic: at the basis, TF1's job is helping Coca-Cola, for example, to sell its product. What we sell to Coca-Cola is available human brain time. Nothing is more difficult than obtaining this availability. This is where permanent change is located. We must always look out for popular programs, follow trends, surf on tendencies, in a context in which information is speeding up, getting manifold and trivialized." [4]
Critics of TF1 also contend that its news coverage is slanted towards supporting right-wing politicians – they were in particular accused of supporting Édouard Balladur in the 1995 presidential elections, and of overstating crime during the 2002 electoral campaign to tilt the balance in favour of former French president Jacques Chirac, who campaigned on a law and order platform.
Key figures within TF1 are close friends to some of the most powerful politicians in France, and the relationship between Bouygues and the public-sector contracting system often raises suspicions. Nicolas Sarkozy (current president of France) is a frequent guest of the channel, and is seen as being given an easier ride than on other networks. Immigration and violence are arguably conflated in the channel's news programmes. In addition, it is occasionally alleged that news reports from TF1 tend to ignore issues yielding a bad light on their parent group (Bouygues), while stressing the problems of competitors (such as VINCI).
Such criticism is heavy in the satirical show Les Guignols de l'info, broadcast on rival private network Canal Plus. However, TF1 now competes in this category with M6, which was initially a generalist channel focusing on musical programmes, but now has programming more resembling TF1 (notably, reality shows that TF1 started running just after M6 introduced them).
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