France 3
| France 3 | |
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| Launched | 20 December 1972 |
| Owned by | France Télévisions |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audience share | 8.8% (January, Médiamétrie) |
| Slogan | Nos régions nous inspirent, nos régions vous inspirent. |
| Country | France |
| Formerly called | La 3e chaîne couleur (1972–1975) FR3 (France Régions 3) (1975–1992) |
| Sister channel(s) |
France 2 France 4 France 5 France Ô |
| Website | www.france3.fr |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| TNT | Channel 3 |
| Satellite | |
| Canalsat | Channel 3 |
| Cable | |
| Ziggo | TV Française Ziggo App |
| IPTV | |
| Canalsat | Channel 3 |
| Streaming media | |
| FilmOn | Watch live |
France 3 (pronounced: [fʁɑ̃s tʁwɑ]) is the second largest French public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5, and France Ô.
It is made up of a network of regional television services providing daily news programming and around ten hours of entertainment and cultural programming produced for and about the regions each week. The channel also broadcasts various national programming and national and international news from Paris. The channel was known as FR3 or France Régions 3 until its official replacement by France 3 in September 1992.
Prior to the establishment of Outre-Mer 1ère, it also broadcast to the various French overseas territories.
La 3e Chaîne Couleur began broadcasting at 7:00pm CET on 20 December 1972. The station's first President Director General (PDG), Jean-Louis Guillaud, decided to call on the ORTF's regional television services and aspiring young staff to join the new network, which would broadcast in colour, with no advertising or continuity announcers (although out-of-vision announcers were later introduced). Upon launch, Jean-Louis Guillaud and the head of ORTF, Arthur Conte, went on the air and together laid out a vision of the new service.
To begin with, La 3e Chaîne Couleur's broadcasts were restricted to three hours each evening and only reached a potential audience of 26% of the population – its transmissions primarily covered Paris, the Ile-de-France and Northern regions.
On 7 October 1974, law reforms signalled the breakup of the ORTF into seven separate state-owned companies. In the case of the third channel, the Société nationale de programme de télévision France Régions 3 (FR3) was given responsibility for management and development of 22 regional television services and 29 regional radio stations under the editorialship of 11 broadcasting centres.
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