France Tlvisions

France Télévisions

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France Tlvisions (French pronunciation:[fʁɑ̃s televizjɔ̃]) is the French public national television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the bringing together of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (formerly France Rgions 3), later joined by the legally independent channels France 5 (formerly La Cinquime), RFO, and France 4 (formerly Festival).France Tlvisions is currently funded by the revenue from television licence fees and commercial 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).France Tlvisions is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative (a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES Astra, OpenTV and Institut fr Rundfunktechnik) 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.France Tlvisions has an interest in a number of thematic cable/satellite channels in France:France.

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