France 2 is a French public national television channel.
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12 Facts About France 2
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Since 3:20 CET on 7 April 2008, all France 2 programming has been broadcast in 16:9 widescreen format over the French analogue and digital terrestrial television.
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An HD simulcast feed of France 2 has been broadcasting on satellite provider CanalSat since 1 July 2008 and on digital terrestrial television since 30 October 2008.
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TF1 and France 2 compete for the same demographics; dramas, game shows and light entertainments form the dominant mix on both channels.
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France 2 is only available in Aosta Valley due to Italian self-government laws, and in the border zones because of natural spillover.
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On 30 September 2000, France 2 aired the famous footage of the shooting of Muhammad al-Durrah in the Gaza Strip.
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France 2 later launched libel actions against commentators who alleged that the incident was staged.
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France 2 won a case against one of those critics, Philippe Karsenty who was eventually and definitely fined €7,000 by the Court of Appeal of Paris in 2013.
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In January 2009, during the Gaza War, France 2 was accused of airing misleading footage that was biased against Israel.
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France 2 has been accused of knowingly producing and airing a news item whose key part it fabricated and staged.
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On 7 March 2013, France 2 aired an eight-minute investigative report purporting to expose a weapons smuggling channel from Serbia to France.
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