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This is an archive of news about France 24. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

France 24 chief becomes head of Radio France Internationale
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 2 2008, 4.22pm
The head of a new, streamlined French media group, Alain de Pouzilhac, took over as CEO of Radio France Internationale on Tuesday, marking one of the first steps in a controversial overhaul of public broadcasting in France. Pouzilhac is already the head of Audiovisuel extérieur de la France (AEF), a group set up to bring [...] (more)

Future of TV5 Monde causes heated debate in Paris
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 20 2008, 12.53pm
The future of the station TV5 Monde continues to generate intense debate between the various partners. At a meeting in Paris last Wednesday, a new holding company was announced, which is intended to be the umbrella organisation for France 24, Radio France Internationale and TV5.  Alain de Pouzilhac, former boss of France 24, who is responsible for the creation [...] (more)

France 24 strikes content deal with video search engine
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 23 2008, 12.00am
Video news from France 24 to be indexed by video search engine blinkx.com    (more)

News TV staff slam Sarkozy?s French-only plans
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 11 2008, 11.12am
Trade unions at France’s international news channel France 24 have strongly criticised President Nicolas Sarkozy for saying the broadcaster should ditch its English and Arabic services and stick to French. Sarkozy said on Tuesday he intended to pool the resources of France 24 with those of France’s other international broadcasters Radio France Internationale and TV5 [...] (more)

France 24 attacks Sarkozy's 'senseless' French-only plan
From Press Gazette. Posted January 11 2008, 12.00am
France 24 has attacked French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s “senseless” plan to close down the station's English and Arabic channels. (more)

New programme for France 24 as president forces public television shake-up
From Financial Times. Posted January 10 2008, 2.00am
France 24, the Paris-based round-the-clock news channel, has been broadcasting for little over a year, but it seems it has already been judged a failure by president... (more)

RFI and France 24 argue over portal
From Rapid TV News. Posted November 6 2007, 9.38pm
As the French government is studying the way to reform and improve French foreign audiovisual policy, both radio station RFI and news channel France 24 are arguing about the possibility of a web portal that would be common to both of them as well as to TV5 Monde. (more)

Television France 24: A Gallic view of the world
From The Independent. Posted October 15 2007, 12.45am
It's an exhilarating job, running a 24-hour news channel. On a flying visit from Paris, Alain de Pouzilhac, chief executive of France 24, is pacing the floorboards of a London private members club, speaking animatedly into his mobile about the channel's two journalists in Burma. Immediately after our interview, he must hot-foot it off for lunch with the French ambassador. But a 35-year career in advertising ? at the peak of which he headed the French advertising giant Havas ? has prepared de Pouzilhac for the globetrotting role. (more)

France 24 broadcasting across Africa on SES New Skies satellite
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 24 2007, 12.20pm
SES New Skies announced today that France 24 is now broadcasting across Africa on the NSS-7 satellite located at the orbital position of 338° East. NSS-7 is the primary satellite for video distribution in Africa, and 338° East has a significant legacy as a strong, diverse and thriving African programme neighbourhood comprising French, English, Arabic [...] (more)

Letters: Hot tips on foreign TV transmissions
From Media Guardian. Posted September 3 2007, 1.00am
Letters: While there is no French language TV on Freeview channels, satellite viewers can receive the 24-hour news service France 24 on the standard BSkyB/Astra digital satellite. (more)

France 24 joins YouTube bandwagon
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 11 2007, 11.51am
Text of report by Cambridge-based Broadband TV News website on 11 June The French international news channel France 24 announced it has launched three branded channels on the YouTube platform, in French, English and in Arabic. Content from the broadcaster will include top rating shows from the three channels, including the best reports and interviews [...] (more)

France 24 in Arabic launches on Hot Bird™
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 3 2007, 8.59am
The new Arabic version of France 24, which launched yesterday at 1400 UTC, is available through the Hot Bird™ 8 broadcast satellite of Eutelsat Communciations. This new language version joins the French and English versions of France 24, the French international news channel, which are already available to cable and satellite homes across Europe, North Africa [...] (more)

France 24 to launch Arabic broadcasts on 2 April
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 19 2007, 1.36pm
France24, the French international news channel, will launch its Arabic broadcasts on 2 April. This was reported by Télésatellite. The Arabic version will initially broadcast 4 hours a day from 16 till 20 hrs CET (1400-1800 UTC). The rest of the day the French or English edition will be broadcast. Currently the French edition of France24 is available [...] (more)

AFP signs partnership Agreement with France 24 Television
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 16 2007, 12.04pm
Agence France-Presse, the international news agency, and France 24, the new French international news television channel, have signed a partnership agreement under which AFP will provide its news wires, multimedia products as well as audio and video reports from its correspondents around the world in French, English and Arabic. The agreement with France 24 is a [...] (more)

France 24: 'Give us a few weeks and we'll be perfect'
From Press Gazette. Posted December 18 2006, 1.45pm
MD of the world's first Gallic take on 24-hour television news hits back against suggestions that France 24 launched too soon. (more)

Opinion: France 24 - a strange breed
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 8 2006, 9.53am
I watched some of the output of the English version of the new French news channel France 24 yesterday evening, and I have to say I was underwhelmed. First of all, they have decided to call the channel by its French name “France vingt-quatre” rather than “France twenty-four” as you would expect. Technically, they have some [...] (more)

France 24 free to air on Astra and NSS-7
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 13 2006, 10.48am
SES Astra and SES New Skies announced today an agreement to broadcast France 24, the new French channel for international news, on an Astra satellite at 19.2° East for Europe and on the NSS-7 satellite at 22° West serving the African continent. Starting on 7 December, more than 21 million European digital households will receive [...] (more)

France 24 to launch on Internet on 6 December
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 1 2006, 1.59pm
The new round-the-clock international news channel France 24 will start broadcasting in English and French on the Internet on December 6 and then via satellite two days later, its chairman and chief executive, Alain de Pouzilhac, told Le Figaro newspaper. Like its British and US rivals BBC World and CNN, it is homing in on “opinion leaders�? [...] (more)

France 24 to offer alternative outlook
From Press Gazette. Posted October 19 2006, 12.00am
The head of the world’s first French international 24-hour news channel has told Press Gazette it will challenge the “Anglo-Saxon view” when it launches in December. (more)

France 24 to broadcast on Sky platform in UK
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 11 2006, 10.02am
The new 24-hour English-language news channel funded by the French government is to be broadcast in the UK on the Sky platform, reports Media Guardian. France 24, which is set to launch at the beginning of December, has also signed up a number of UK presenters. As well as an English-language channel, France 24 is also launching [...] (more)

France?s TV rival to BBC, CNN baptised ?France 24?: report
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 3 2006, 2.51pm
France’s soon-to-be-launched international news television channel has been named “France 24″, a broadcast trade magazine, Satellifax, reported today. The new name decided by the channel’s board replaces the temporary one that has been used up to now: the French International News Network (CFII in its French initials). France 24 - or simply F24 - is to begin [...] (more)