It's an improvement but I can't say that I'm a huge fan, it strikes me as a bland mix of TV5MONDE and LCI's on-air looks. Would've liked something more stylish and distinctly French to help them stand out from the crowd of second-tier international news broadcasters which all have a pretty similar amount of quality of output.
I like the animations and the new music. I think overall, this is a big step up from their previous looks, which always felt cheap to me. What I don't like:
The slab serif doesn't quite look right, and it doesn't work well paired with Helvetica.
Why is that white line at the bottom? Is that reserved for another ticker? It's pointless otherwise.
I'm disappointed that they didn't also think to redo the logo as well, especially now that it refers to a graphics package that is no longer on the air.
I still think the name is unfortunate. For outsiders, it restricts the channel to being mostly thought of as a French channel and not necessarily a peer of CNNI, AJE, or BBC World. For the French, it's confusing, because it's not on channel 24.
Overall, it's a nice change, and I'm glad the channel is around, but I wish they changed some things in order to reach their goal, which is to be able to compete with the existing English world news channels. They might just get there someday.
Why is that white line at the bottom? Is that reserved for another ticker? It's pointless otherwise.
It looks like it's for displaying tweets or other social media reaction (a la #russiatoday 's flipper in the lower third).
It's there, very briefly, in the demo at 1.17 in...
I believe that the white line is the aston in case the image is cropped. Here is the graphics play out without the ticker as seen on the France 24's French output. They have now included a live tag on all live broadcasts.
I still think the name is unfortunate. For outsiders, it restricts the channel to being mostly thought of as a French channel and not necessarily a peer of CNNI, AJE, or BBC World.
I believe that's their point. To market themselves as a channel with world news from a French perspective.
For the French, it's confusing, because it's not on channel 24.
Not an issue, since this channel is for foreign consumption (like BBC World News).
Besides, it's not like France 4 is on DTT channel 4 (it's actually on channel 14) and there is such a thing as a "channel Ô" for France Ô.
BTW, while France 2/3/4/5/Ô are owned by France's public-service television broadcaster, France Télévisions, France 24 is directly owned by the French state, through France Médias Monde (also the parent of Radio France Internationale).
I still think the name is unfortunate. For outsiders, it restricts the channel to being mostly thought of as a French channel and not necessarily a peer of CNNI, AJE, or BBC World. For the French, it's confusing, because it's not on channel 24.
Because the 24 totally represents what the channel number should be, and not the number of hours in a day...
Because the 24 totally represents what the channel number should be, and not the number of hours in a day...
Yes - was terribly confusing when News 24 wasn't on channel 24â¦
Although that's a slightly different point. This case would be the same as if BBC News 24 being called just BBC 24. I don't agree that's necessarily a big problem, but I do take the point Charles is making with regards to it not sounding like a world news channel.
