Métropole Télévision

M6
Launched	1 March 1987
Owned by	M6 Group
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audience share	10.2% (2016, Médiamétrie)
Slogan	La vie en mieux (Making life better)
Country	France
Language	French
Headquarters	Neuilly-sur-Seine
Replaced	TV6 (1986–1987)
Website	www.m6.fr
Availability
Terrestrial
TNT	Channel 6 (HD) Channel 56 (SD)
Satellite
Canalsat	Channel 6 (SD/HD) Channel 504 (HD) Channel 704 (SD)
Cable
NOS(Portugal)	Channel 227
IPTV
Canalsat	Channel 6 (SD/HD) Channel 504 (HD)

M6 (pronounced: [ɛm sis]), also known as Metropole Television, is the most profitable private national French TV channel and the third most watched television network in the French-speaking world. M6 is the head channel of the M6 Group media empire that owns several TV channels, magazines, publications, movie production and media-related firms etc. It is owned by RTL Group.

Other TV channels in the M6 portfolio include digital terrestrial channels W9, 6ter, Paris Première, and digital cable channels Téva, TF6, Série Club, M6 Music, M6 Music Black, M6 Music Club, Girondins TV and M6 Boutique & Co.

M6 launched on 1 March 1987 at 11:15 am CET taking the place of TV6.

M6's current on-air brand image suggests that it tailors its service to teenagers and young-adult demographics. Its current programs lineup include:

In 2001, M6 became the first national French television network to broadcast reality programming. Its first program of this genre was Loft Story, and was highly watched. The president of TF1 at the time, Étienne Mougeotte, promised that TF1 would never air any reality programming. However, several months later, TF1 signed a contract with Endemol to air such programming. Endemol is the same company that created Loft Story for M6.

M6 is one of the only television services in France to have science-fiction programming as part of its regular schedule. Most supernatural dramas were shown on Saturday nights in what M6 called "la Trilogie du Samedi" (The Saturday Trilogy)

1 Source: Médiamétrie

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