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 France Télévisions headquarters in 2015 | |
| Company type | Société anonyme |
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| Industry | Public service broadcasting |
| Founded | 7 September 1992; 33 years ago (1992-09-07) (as France Télévision)[a] 1 August 2000; 25 years ago (2000-08-01) (as France Télévisions SA) |
| Headquarters | 7 esplanadeHenri de France Paris, France |
Key people | Delphine Ernotte (Chairman) |
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| Revenue |  €3.087 billion (2018)[1] |
 €−89.3 million (2018)[1] | |
| Total assets | €444.5 million (2018)[1] |
| Owner | Government of France |
Number of employees | 9,050 (2021) |
| Subsidiaries | TV channels
Internet
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Advertisement Publishing and distribution Others
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| Website | Official website www |
France Télévisions (French pronunciation:[fʁɑ̃stelevizjɔ̃]; stylized since 2018 asfrance·tv) is the French national publictelevision broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the integration of the publictelevision channelsFrance 2 (formerly Antenne 2) andFrance 3 (formerly France Régions 3), later joined by the legally independent channelsFrance 4 (formerly Festival),France 5 (formerly La Cinquième) andFrance Info.
France Télévisions is currently funded by theFrench Treasury and the revenue fromcommercial 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).[citation needed]
France Télévisions is a supporter of theHybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative 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.[2]
From 1964 to 1975, French radio and television was monopolized through an organization known as theOffice de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française. In an effort to stimulate competition, the organization was split in 1975 so that France's three television channels—TF1,Antenne 2, andFR3, would still be owned by the French government, but be operated independently from each other. However, the sale of TF1 toBouygues in 1987 and increased competition from other new private broadcasters (such asCanal+ andLa Cinq, the latter having been replaced by public channelLa Cinquième after it ceased transmissions in April 1992) led to a decline in viewership for the two remaining public channels, which lost 30% of their market share between 1987 and 1989.[3][4] The channels were however saved when a single director-general was appointed to manage both Antenne 2 and FR3, becoming part of a joint entity known as France Télévision. They were renamed in 1992 as France 2 and France 3, respectively.[5]
In August 2000, France Télévisions S.A. was formed as a holding company for France's public television channels, absorbing control of France 2, France 3, and La Cinquième (later renamed France 5). In 2004,Réseau France Outre-mer was absorbed by France Télévisions. Beginning in 2008, thePresident of France took the duty of naming the presidents for the French public broadcasters; they were previously nominated by theConseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel. In 2013, under Francois Hollande, the previously adopted law was modified to return the power to nominate the presidents or French public broadcasters to theConseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel.
France Télévisions took an interest in a number of thematic cable/satellite channels in France:
| Channel | France Télévisions | Indirect interest | Other interest | |
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| Planète+ Crime [fr] | 34% | 66% Canal+ Thématiques (Canal+ Group) | ||
The channel Planète+ Crime was recently sold.
France Télévisions holds 100% of France Télémusique SAS.
The thematic channel Planète Juniors (formerlyMa Planète) ceased operations in March 2009, and Planète+ Thalassa closed on 31 December 2015.
France.tv is France Télévisions'streaming platform. Launched in 2010 as thecatch-up servicePluzz, it offers live feeds of the France Télévisions channels, as well as on-demand streaming of their programmes, and acquired programmes from other broadcasters (such as a 2019 agreement with Canadian broadcasterIci Radio-Canada Télé).[6] The service was relaunched in 2017 under the France.tv branding, as part of an effort to promote it as the main digital platform of France Télévisions.[7][8]
In July 2025, France Télévisions announced a partnership withAmazon Prime Video, under which France.tv's on-demand library and live streaming of all France Télévisions channels would become available on the Prime Video platform. The agreement, which took effect immediately, came shortly after commercial rivalTF1 Group announced a similar partnership withNetflix to begin in 2026.[9]
| Channel | France Télévisions | Indirect interest | Other interest | |
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| TV5Monde | 46.42% | 3.12% | Arte France | France Médias Monde 11.97% RTS 10.53% RTBF 10.53% CBC 6.32% TVMonaco 5.26% Télé-Québec 4.21% INA 1.65% |
| Arte | 50.00% | Arte France | 50% Arte Deutschland TV GmbH (ARD and ZDF) | |
France Télévisions holds 45% of the Arte France holding company together with the French state (25%),Radio France (15%) andINA (15%).Arte France andArte Deutschland form theArte Consortium that manages thebilingual French-German channel (Arte shared its analogue channel with France 5, but both channels have separate full-time services on cable, satellite and digital broadcasts).
France Télévisions also controls the newR1 digital multiplex that currently hosts France 2, France 3, France 5, Arte andLa Chaîne parlementaire. France 4 was originally on the R1 multiplex but was moved to R2 to allow space forregional channels on R1.
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France 4 andFrance Ô were threatened with closure as early as 2018, while PresidentMacron had announced that they would be kept during the2017 presidential elections. With the arrival of theCOVID-19 pandemic andlockdown, France 4 transformed into a giant classroom by offering courses of all levels. Then, seeing this interest from 3–17-year olds, France 4, after the lockdown, transformed into a youth channel, offering cartoons all day long, likeGulli. As a result, it was decided to keep it, while France Ô closed down in August 2020. A few months later, its former EPG position, channel 19, was taken over byCulturebox, a channel focused on entertainment financed by France Télévisions, which would eventually go on channel 14, as an evening programming block on France 4 . On 6 June 2025,France 4 took overCanal+'s EPG position, channel 4, while the Culturebox name was removed, but some of its programming remain broadcast on France 4.
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