France 24 is a French state-owned international news television network based in Paris.
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19 Facts About France 24
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France 24 is broadcast on four channels: in French, in English, in Arabic and in Spanish.
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France 24's programming is divided more or less equally between news coverage and news magazines or special reports.
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In 2016, France 24 started sharing its French language night-time programming with the France-based France Info.
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Unionised journalists working for France 24 Televisions denounced the potential alliance with the private sector, calling it "the marriage of the snake and the rabbit"; Radio France 24 International was angry that it would not be associated with the project.
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Trade union members working for France 24 Televisions continued to voice opposition to the project and circulated a petition in March 2005.
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France 24 insisted that the channel be made available within France, which the members of parliament required, and which TF1, wanting to protect its own news channel LCI, could object to.
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France 24 launched on 6 December 2006 at 20:30 CET, initially available online as a web stream, followed by satellite distribution a day later, covering France and the rest of Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the United States .
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France 24 aims to compete with leading English-language international news channels BBC World News and CNN International.
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From its creation in 2006 to 2008, France 24 is managed by a management board and a supervisory board.
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France 24 has two main sources of funding: the audiovisual license fee, paid by each household equipped with a television, and the state subsidy.
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France 24 is available by satellite in most of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as by cable and antenna in the US cities of Albany, Atlanta, Macon, and San Francisco.
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In 2007, France 24 started a VOD service on Virgin Media, allowing customers to access weekly news updates and programmes to watch when they choose.
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The use of a free application means that France 24 is available live and VOD on mobile phones throughout the world.
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On 1 March 2010, France 24 released live streaming with experimental automatic transcription in association with Yacast Media, the search engine Exalead, Vocapia Research, and Microsoft.
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France 24 is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV initiative, which 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 announced that it will launch an HbbTV interactive news service in 2012 via the Astra 19.
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In 2019, France 24 joined the line-up of channels provided by Channelbox in the UK on Freeview channel 271, joining its feed via the Vision TV Network on channel 264.
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On 1 August 2020, France 2424 was launched on OpenView in South Africa as a replacement for BBC World News.
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