France Télévisions headquarters
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Société anonyme | |
Founded | 7 September 1992 (originally as France Television without "s") August 2000 (Forming France Télévisions SA) |
Headquarters | France Télévisions SA 7, esplanade Henri de France 75015 Paris Eiffel Tower, Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole, 75007 Paris, France 7 Ligne 3 du tramway d'Île-de-France, 75015 Paris, France |
Key people
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Delphine Ernotte-Cunci: Chief Executive Officer Patrice Duhamel: Vice-President and Director General of Broadcasting. |
Revenue | €2,853 million |
Owner | Government of France |
Number of employees
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11,400 |
Website |
www.francetelevisions.fr www.francetvinfo.fr www.francetv.fr |
Coordinates: 48°50′20″N 2°16′17″E / 48.83889°N 2.27139°E
France Télévisions SA (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s televizjɔ̃]) is the French public national television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the integration of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (formerly France Régions 3), later joined by the legally independent channels France 5 (formerly La Cinquième), France Ô (formerly RFO Sat), and France 4 (formerly Festival).
France Télévisions is currently funded by the revenue from television licence fees and commercial advertising. The new law on public broadcasting will phase out commercial advertising on the public television channels (at first in the evening, then gradually throughout the day).
France Télévisions 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, and has selected HbbTV for its interactive news, sports and weather service, and plans to add catch-up TV and social media sharing capability.