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| Country | France |
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| Headquarters | Neuilly-sur-Seine |
| Programming | |
| Language | French |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to576i for the SD feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Groupe M6 |
| Sister channels | M6 Gulli 6ter Paris Première Téva M6 Music Série Club |
| History | |
| Launched | 31 March 2005; 20 years ago (2005-03-31) |
| Links | |
| Website | www.6play.fr/w9 |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| TNT | Channel 9 |
W9 (pronounced[dubləvenœf]) is a French television network available through digital terrestrial televisionTNT,satellite andADSL. It is a subsidiary of theGroupe M6; the name W9 has been selected for the channel because "W9" is amirror written equivalent of "M6", and also as it was the nation's ninth broadcast network.
The nameW9 was invented byLes Inconnus in the early 90s with a sketch that spoofed M6's music programming at the time, with the logo being a rotated version of M6's. The sketch portrays the interaction between Roxane (played byPascal Légitimus) with an American accent who wants to ask Michel (played byBernard Campan) about the name of the excerpt of the song that was being played.
Before getting a terrestrial license, W9 wasM6 Music, a satellite channel launched on 1 March 1998. The channel was renamedM6 Music Hits on the day W9 launched.W9 is one of the first channels of TNT France (FrenchDVB-T).
The channel has been available in HD since August 1, 2011.
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Annual average | |
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| 2007 | 0.8% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1.2% | 1.3% | 0.9% | ||||
| 2008 | 1.4% | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1.7% | 1.8% | 1.9% | 1.5% | 1.5% | 2.0% | 2.1% | 2.3% | 2.2% | 1.8% |
| 2009 | 2.3% | 2.2% | 2.3% | 2.4% | 2.4% | 2.4% | 2.2% | 2.6% | 2.5% | 2.8% | 2.8% | 2.9% | 2.5% |
| 2010 | 2.7% | 2.7% | 2.8% | 3.0% | 3.0% | 3.0% | 3.0% | 3.0% | 3.1% | 3.0% | 3.1% | 3.2% | 3.0% |
| 2011 | 3.4% | 3.3% | 3.1% | 3.2% | 3.1% | 3.1% | 3.2% | 3.8% | 3.4% | 3.5% | 3.6% | 3.5% | 3.4% |
| 2012 | 2.9% | 3.2% | 3.0% | 3.2% | 3.1% | 3.3% | 3.3% | 3.3% | 3.5% | 3.6% | 3.3% | 3.1% | 3.2% |
| 2013 | 3.4% | 3.3% | 2.8% | 2.9% | 2.9% | 3.0% | 3.0% | 3.1% | 2.8% |
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