France Attack Coverage 14/07/16

And to extend the analogy, France 5 and Arte, taken together, are the approximate equivalent of BBC Four.

France 4 is a crossover of CBBC and the old BBC Three. I'd also debate that France 5 is similar to BBC Two .

M6 is similar to Channel 5 (their news programme is where C5 should be editorially and pres wise), NRJ12 is similar to ITV2 and E4 and also has American Dad repeats along with other US shows.

It's worth going back to the France 2 Newsflash I posted and would say that when they launch their news channel in September, it should be a lot more slicker than it was in that clip.

Any idea if France 2 and/or France 3's news will get a new look when France Info launches?

What I find surprising is that France 2 and 3's News bulletins don't look like each other, which in one aspect is good.

Quite surprised to see another news channel launch in France, they'll have France Info, LCI, BFM TV, iTele/C News, and France 24. Granted I know the latter is not that big in France. Shame there can't be this many in the UK. (That are for the UK audience not just the international versions.)

This arrangement has its origins in 1970, when two completely separate news departments were created for the ORTF's two networks. From Timothy Green's The Universal Eye: World Television in the Seventies (1972):



When the Third Network was launched, it too got a separate news team, and this arrangement continued when the ORTF's TV services were broken up to create TF1, Antenne 2 (now France 2), and France Régions 3 (now France 3).

TF1 was eventually privatized, and France 2 & 3 were reunited under the France Télévisions umbrella, but F2 and F3's newsrooms are still separate to a large degree (although they do exchange footage).

And yet, the presenter backdrops for the main evening bulletins for TF1 and France2 are very alike..

RT were the first to report it in the UK, I think.