Compared to other European nations, the French are not avid newspaper readers, citing only 164 adults out of every 1000 as newspaper readers.
La Première is a group of French radio and television stations operated by the state-owned France Télévisions group. The stations operate in France's overseas departments and territories, and carry around the world.
Radio Monte Carlo (RMC) is the name of radio stations owned and managed by several different entities:
Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française was the French national public broadcaster television organization established on 9 February 1949 to replace the post-war "Radiodiffusion Française" (RDF), which had been founded on 23 March 1945 to replace Radiodiffusion Nationale (RN), created on 29 July 1939. It was replaced in its turn, on 26 June 1964, by the notionally less-strictly government controlled Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), which itself lasted until the end of 1974.
BFM TV is a French news broadcast television and radio network, wholly owned by RMC BFM. The flagship property of the RMC BFM division of CMA CGM, its headquarters are located in Paris.
Television in France was introduced in 1931, when the first experimental broadcasts began. Colour television was introduced in October 1967 on La Deuxième Chaîne.
Médiamétrie, established in 1985, is a public limited company specialising in audience measurement and research into audio-visual and digital media usage in France. It is especially well known for its Audimat brand whose name is now part of everyday language; today, however, that brand is named Médiamat.
Alain Weill is a French business executive. He is the founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of NextRadioTV and Chairman and CEO of SFR Group.
Altice Média is a French media company, division of CMA CGM.
RMC Découverte is a French television channel broadcast on channel 24 and owned by RMC BFM. Created in 2012, it mainly broadcasts documentaries such as Wheeler Dealers, Ancient Aliens, Swamp Loggers. RMC Découverte broadcasts the French version of the British show Top Gear.
RMC Story, formerly known as Numéro 23 and initially as TVous La télédiversité, is a French independent TV television channel founded by Diversité TV France. It launched its broadcasts on 12 December 2012 and is the 23rd national television in France.
Eutelsat 5 West A, formerly Atlantic Bird 3 was a communications satellite belonging to the operator Eutelsat. Situated at 5° West, it broadcast satellite television, radio and other digital data. Developed for France Telecom it was transferred soon after its launch to the operator Eutelsat. It entered operational service in early September 2002. Its anticipated working life was 15 years. It was decommissioned in January 2023.
Julian Bugier, is a French TV journalist.
Christophe Jakubyszyn is a French journalist. He is the editorialist for the 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. of TF1 and political columnist for the LCI morning show, he joined the NextRadioTV group in September 2019 to head the Good Morning Business program on the BFM Business channel and RMC Story.
Vià is a French television network. It started as a southern regional network in 2010, before going national in 2018, and subsequently contracting again due to economic problems.
BFM Régions is a French network of local news television channels, property of RMC BFM division of CMA CGM. It is partially modeled after the American News 12 Networks, which Altice owns through its 2016 purchase of Cablevision. The network is part of the BFM family of news and financial media properties.
