Arte | |
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Launched | 30 May 1992 |
Owned by | ARTE France ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH |
Picture format |
576i50 (SDTV) 720p50 (HDTV) (Germany) 1080i50 (HDTV) (France) |
Audience share | 2,2% (2015, in France) 1% (2015, in Germany) |
Country | France Germany |
Language | French German |
Broadcast area | France, Germany and other European Countries |
Replaced |
La Cinq La Sept |
Website | arte.tv |
Availability
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Terrestrial | |
TNT | Channel 7 Channel 57 (HD) |
DVB-T | Germany, wherever DVB-T coverage is present |
Satellite | |
Canalsat | Channel 7 (SD/HD) Channel 505 (HD) Channel 705 (SD) |
TNTSAT | Channel 7 |
Orange TV | Channel 7 |
Bis Télévisions | Channel 7 |
CanalDigitaal | Channel 26 (German, HD) Channel 122 (German, SD) Channel 196 (French, SD) |
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal | Channel 88 (French) Channel 139 (German) |
SKY Italia | Channel 544 |
AB3 (5°W) | 11590.00 V (DVB) |
Astra 1KR (19.2°E) | 10744H 22000 5/6 |
Hot Bird | 11623.00 V |
Cable | |
Unitymedia | Channel 280 |
Kabel Deutschland | Channel 110 |
Kabel BW | S2 (113 MHz) |
Numericable (France) | Channel 7 |
MC Cable | Channel 7 |
UPC Austria | Channel 129 |
UPC Tirol | Channel 060 |
Naxoo | Channel 9 |
Numericable (Bel., French) | Channel 7 |
Numericable (Bel., Dutch) | Channel 37 |
Numericable (Lux., French) | Channel 15 |
Numericable (Lux., German) | Channel 55 |
Ziggo (Netherlands) | Channel 72 (German) TV Française Ziggo App (French) |
Cablecom (Switzerland) | Channel 045 (digital CH-D) |
HOT (Israel) | Channel 146 |
IPTV | |
T-Home Entertain | Channel 45 |
Alice TV (Germany) | Channel 15 |
Arcor Digital TV | Channel 14 |
DartyBox | Channel 7 |
Neuf Box TV | Channel 7 |
Freebox TV | Channel 7 |
Orange TV | Channel 7 |
Alice TV (France) | Channel 7 |
Bbox TV | Channel 7 |
Belgacom TV (Wallonia and Brussels) | Channel 13 |
Belgacom TV (Flanders) | Channel 60 |
KPN | Channel 49 |
Canalsat | Channel 7 (SD/HD) Channel 505 (HD) |
DU (UAE) | Channel 810 |
ARTE (Association relative à la télévision européenne) is a public Franco-German TV network, a European channel, that promotes programming in the areas of culture and the arts. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE GEIE, plus two member companies acting as editorial and programme production centres, ARTE France in Paris (France) and ARTE Deutschland in Baden-Baden (Germany). As an international joint venture (an EEIG), its programmes cater technically to audiences from both France and Germany. This implies double-titling, opposite-language subtitling, dubbing, hosts who speak both languages alternately, and two separate audio tracks (through DVB-T, satellite television and digital cable).
80% of ARTE's programming are provided in equal proportion by the two member companies ARTE France and ARTE Deutschland while the remainder is being provided by ARTE GEIE and the channel's European partners.
ARTE France was formerly known as La Sept. ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH is a subsidiary of the two main public German TV networks ARD and ZDF.
Selected programmes are available with English, Spanish and Polish subtitles online.
ARTE began transmission in 1992, filling frequencies left unused by the demise of La Cinq, the first French commercial television network (created in 1986). The opening night on 30 May 1992 was broadcast live from the Strasbourg Opera House.
ARTE started out as an evening-only service. In the daytime, the frequencies were shared with other channels. A public channel called Télé emploi occupied the French frequencies for about a month during 1994, before the start of La Cinquième (now France 5) in December that year. For German viewers, ARTE was assigned a frequency on the Astra 1D satellite in late 1994, and it was eventually shared with Nickelodeon Germany, later replaced by the new public children's channel Kinderkanal.