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France Televisions
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SACD: Salto has ‘no chance’ against Netflix
Salto, the project to create a French OTT service championed by France Télévisions chief Delphine…
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Ernotte: French players need to retain exclusive rights
French TV industry players need to retain exclusive rights to their content rather than to…
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French government mixes messages on future of TV licence
French culture minister Françoise Nyssen used an appearance at the La Rochelle fiction festival to…
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France Télévisions teams with Nokia for first 8K streaming over 5G
France Télévisions has teamed up with Nokia to pilot what the pair claim to be…
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France Télévisions reorganises as France 3 director exits
France 3 director Dana Hastier is set to depart the company after over a decade…
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French SVOD project Salto ‘will work’, says Ernotte
Salto, France’s planned joint Netflix rival to be created by public broadcaster France Télévisions and…
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Molotov reportedly looking for buyer
French OTT TV service Molotov is looking for a buyer, according to local reports, with…
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French broadcasters combine forces in major OTT TV plan
French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 Group and public broadcaster France Televisions have teamed up…
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France Télévisions to merge channels and focus on digital as Nyssen outlines reform
French culture minister Françoise Nyssen has outlined a series of economy measures and changes to…
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France Télévisions, Rai and ZDF team up to take on Netflix
European public broadcasters France Télévisions, Rai and ZDF have unveiled the first projects to be…
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France Télévisions forges programming alliance with ZDF
France Télévisions and Rai are to forge an alliance with ZDF that will encompass co-production,…
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France Télévisions looking to divest football competitions
French public broadcaster France Télévisions wants to sell off the rights it holds to air…
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France Télévisions putting SVOD plan ‘on hold’ as it seeks partners
France Télévisions has put its plan to launch a subscription video-on-demand service on hold as…
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France Télévisions should drop SVOD plan, says ex-programing chief
France Télévisions should abandon its plan for a new subscription video-on-demand platform and transform existing…
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France Télévisions’ Netflix rival to ‘launch before summer’
France Télévisions’ planned SVOD offering will launch “before the summer”, according to the pubcaster’s commercial…
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France Télévisions taps Arkena for SVOD plan
France Télévisions has chosen Arkena to provide transcoding capability for its planned – and much…
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France Télévisions piloting targeted advertising on DTT platform
French public broadcaster France Télévisions has teamed up with transmission services provider TDF to test…
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France Télévisions targeting 10% share of SVOD market
France Télévisions hopes to make €40-50 million from its planned SVOD service within five years,…
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France Télévisions chief gives shape to cost-cutting plan
France Télévisions boss Delphine Ernotte plans to cut 180 posts as part of a cost-saving…
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Watchdog marks France Télévisions report card
French media regulator the CSA has given public broadcaster France Télévisions a broadly positive report…
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France Télévisions envisaging SVOD launch next spring
France Télévisions director-general Delphine Ernotte remains committed to the launch of a new subscription video-on-demand…
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Xavier Couture to leave France Télévisions
France Télévisions’ programming chief Xavier Couture is to leave the group early next year to…
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French parliamentarians reject move to ease pubcaster budget cuts
French parliamentarians have withdrawn support for a move to ameliorate an additional €50 million in…
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CSA boss opposes reintroduction of advertising on pubcaster
Olivier Schrameck, the chief executive of French media regulator the CSA, has expressed his opposition…
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France Télévisions faces call to make more savings
France Télévisions and France’s other public broadcaster organisations could be forced to find significant cost…
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CSA relaxes ad restrictions for TF1
The French media regulator, the CSA, has relaxed advertising restrictions placed on leading commercial broadcaster…
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European pubcasters in pact to combat Netflix, Amazon threat
Two of Europe’s primary public broadcasters are strategically combining their arsenals to combat the growing…
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France Télévisions news chief resigns as crisis envelops broadcaster
France Télévisions director of news Michel Field has resigned amid a crisis enveloping the French…
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France Télévisions replaces Pluzz with France.tv
France Télévisions has launched a new online video portal combining all live, catch-up and paid…
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France Télévisions appoints pay TV veteran Verley as commercial chief
France Télévisions has appointed pay TV veteran Julien Verley as its new director of commercial…