France Info (TV channel)


France Info is a French domestic rolling news channel which started broadcasting on 31 August 2016 at 6:00 p.m. on the Web. TV broadcasting began on 1 September 2016 at 8:00 p.m. on most TV operators, and on the TNT. As for and Canalsat, it began on 6 September.
France Info involves France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde and the Institut national de l'audiovisuel. It shares its name with a global news service which gathers the TV channel itself, the radio channel France Info and the website www.francetvinfo.fr. France Info broadcasts from 06:00 seven days a week until 00:00 and simulcasts France 24 overnight. France Info can be watched live on YouTube and web.

Background

After LCI, CNEWS and BFMTV, and France 24, France Info is the fifth rolling news channel in France.
The goal of France Info is to distance itself from the competition by focusing heavily on straight news coverage, hoping to offer a higher-quality news service. The channel's music was produced by French composer, Jean-Michel Jarre.
France Info is supported by France Télévisions, in particular France 2 and 3. The channel has 204 employees, as well as 3,000 journalists distributed among the editorial teams of France 2, France 3 Régions, Réseau Outre-Mer première, Franceinfo, France Inter and France 24. Its total budget is 15 million euros for France Télévisions and 3.5 million euros for Radio France.
It includes the characteristic elements of rolling news channels and debate and analysis programs. The sister radio station provides headline reminders three times each hour at :20, :40 and :50 past, France 24 fills in the overnight programming, and Ina offers magazines on "the news seen through a historical eye".
France Info thus becomes a global public-service news offering that brings together radio and television and makes use of the experience of the public service as a whole in terms of information.
This is the first major collaboration between public radio and television since 1975; at that time France Inter supplied the footage in the bulletins of the 3e chaîne couleur de l'ORTF.

Programs

Unlike other news channels, France Info can be watched without sound, thanks to some reports being text-heavy. Journalists can explain the stories using an interactive touchscreen. The cameraman moves along with the journalists, with a mobile device accompanied. The tone is mostly offbeat, without forgetting to be serious if required. The presentation - done in a studio integrated directly into the newsroom by an anchorman and/or anchorwoman, serving as both news anchors and segment introducers - as well as the interactivity with the "Le Live" thread seen on the channel's website, are other distinctive differences.

Studio Gilles Jacquier (from France Télévisions)

Main presenters

Staff present live headlines every 10 minutes on TV and radio:
Radio presenters whose their shows are also simulcast on TV: