| Name | France 3 |
|---|---|
| Logofile | France3-logo.png |
| Logosize | 100px |
| Launch | 31 December 1972 |
| Share | 10.3% |
| Share as of | November 2010 |
| Share source | |
| Owner | France Télévisions |
| Country | France |
| Former names | La Troisième Chaîne de l'ORTF (Couleur 3) (1972-1975) FR3 (France Régions 3) (1975-1992) | class="wikitable" |
| Sister names | France 2 France 4 France 5 France Ô |
| Web | www.france3.fr |
| Terr avail | SECAM, Channel 3 en France |
| Terr serv 1 | SECAM |
| Terr chan 1 | Channel 3 |
| Terr serv 2 | TNT |
| Terr chan 2 | Channel 3 |
| Cable serv 1 | Numericable| |
| Cable chan 1 | Channel 3| |
| Cable serv 2 | MC Cable| |
| Cable chan 2 | Channel 5| |
| Cable serv 3 | Cablecom| |
| Cable chan 3 | Channel 109 Channel 304 (digital CH-D)| |
| Cable serv 4 | Naxoo| |
| Cable chan 4 | Channel 6| |
| Sat serv 1 | Atlantic Bird |
| Sat chan 1 | Channel 3 |
| Sat serv 3 | CanalSat |
| Sat chan 3 | Channel 3 |
| Sat serv 4 | Bis |
| Sat chan 4 | Channel 3 |
France 3 is the second largest French public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5, and France Ô.
It is made up of a network of regional television services providing daily news programming and around ten hours of entertainment and cultural programming produced for and about the regions each week. The channel also broadcasts various national programming and national and international news from Paris. The channel was known as FR3 or France Régions 3 until the formation of France Télévisions in September 1992.
Prior to the establishment of RFO, it also broadcast to the various French overseas territories.
To begin with, Couleur 3's broadcasts were restricted to three hours each evening and only reached a potential audience of 26% of the population - its transmissions primarily covered Paris, the Ile-de-France and Northern regions. By the end of the decade, FR3 had become a fully national network.
FR3 was launched on 6 January 1975 with its PDG, Claude Contaime, choosing to concentrate on film, debate and local opt-outs as the network's main output. By 22 March 1975, daily local progaramming for the regions had commenced. Some national programming, including Les Jeux de 20 Heures, made heavy use of the regional network by linking up to studios around the country for live features. In the case of Les Jeux de 20 Heures, it is said that such programming led the State government to understand the importance of regionalism and to gradually undertake measures to decentralise France administratively and economically.
On the programming front, the network's first national news programme was introduced in 1978 in the form of Soir 3, a late night national and international bulletin. 21 October 1981 saw FR3 begin regular live coverage of the ministers' questions of the National Assembly. Advertising was introduced to the network in January 1983. By September 1983, the twelve broadcasting centres around the country were airing an average of 3 hours a day of regional output. Popular programming on Saturday night included the first airings of the American soap opera Dynasty and a Disney Channel strand. National and regional news at peaktime was integrated into a new nightly programme, 19|20, launched on 6 May 1986.
Changes to the schedule included a supplementary Friday night edition of Thalassa- le magazine de la mer whilst an televised opera was aired every Wednesday night. Popular quiz show Questions pour un champion made its broadcasting début in November 1988. La Classe, an entertainment programme which replaced Les Jeux de 20 heures and followed 19|20, was also introduced. Having launched without utilising speakerines, the network introduced in-vision announcers in September 1987 and retained live continuity until 1993, a year after TF1 and France 2 had abandoned in-vision presentation.
At the same time, FR3 was already closing down on Saturday afternoons to allow nine hours of airtime to the educational station La Sept. The arrangement continued until 1992 when the launch of the Franco-German network Arte led to the broadcaster's demise. On FR3 itself, the network aired current affairs programming on Saturday mornings including Continentales and L’Eurojournal, both presented by Alex Taylor.
Between 2000 and 2005, La Cinquième (now France 5), RFO (together with RFOsat, now France Ô) and France 4 joined France 2 and France 3 under the France Télévisions corporate identity.
Under the direction of France Télévisions président Patrick de Carolis and director of channels Patrice Duhamel, October 2006 saw the introduction of a new daily cultural programme called Ce soir (ou jamais!) presented by Frederic Taddei, marking a new, more cultural focus to the network's programming. The late night news programme Soir 3 was given a new, fixed timeslot of 11pm.
Another part of the channel is a great emphasis is on the celebration of the country as a whole and on the different regions which make up France (for example Plus belle la vie, a popular soap opera, is set in Marseille). Some of its well known programmes can also be seen as part of the schedules of TV5 Monde.
'It must promote local news and regional events and to introduce and familiarise the different regions of France and Europe and « to give space to our lively spectacles ».'
Since TF1 became independent from the ORTF, FR3 was based at the Maison de la Radio in the XVIe arrondissement in Paris with its editorial base located at 28 Cours Albert 1er in the VIIIe arrondissement.
In 1998, France 3 moved to a new base at 7 Esplanade Henri de France in the XVe arrondissement. This also houses the rest of France Télévisions' operations. The headquarters are accessible by taking the RER Line C at Boulevard Victor.
A typical edition of 12|13 consists of national news headlines at 11:45 followed by an Outre-Mer bulletin from the studios of RFO Paris at 11:50. The regional opt-out bulletins (midi-pile) air at noon, followed by the national news from 12:25-12:55 CET.
A typical edition of 19|20 opens with a short summary of the national and regional headlines. This is then followed by an opt-out for either regional news or local features, with the main regional news airing after this at 19:00. The national news concludes the programming block at 19:30.
On 5 January 2009, the programme began to incorporate a 5-minute regional news opt-out as part of a revamp of France 3's schedule to accommodate the end of prime-time advertising.
The regional centres are often grouped in two levels - two half-hour news programmes and a short late night bulletin are produced and broadcast each day (in many cases, separate bulletins are produced for various parts of the region). The centres also produce shorter, more localised news bulletins for broadcast within 19|20. For example, France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie produces localised bulletins for Côte d'Opale, Lille Métropole and Picardie. Various sport, features, current affairs and entertainment programming produced for and about the regions are also broadcast.
13 regional stations make up the network. Between them, the stations provide 24 sub-regional services, whose broadcast areas approximately match the 22 metropolitan régions of France (the exceptions being that Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes are sub-divided into two). Each sub-regional news service emanates from a distinct centre of production. In addition, the stations provide 42 more localised news opt-outs.
{| class="wikitable" ! !! Region name !! Area served !! News regions !! Centres of production !! rowspan=14 | |- | 1. || France 3 Alsace || Alsace || 1 || Strasbourg |- | 2. || France 3 Aquitaine || Aquitaine || 1 || Bordeaux |- | 3. || France 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comté || Bourgogne, Franche-Comté || 2 || Dijon, Besançon |- | 4. || France 3 Corse || Corsica || 1 || Ajaccio |- | 5. || France 3 Lorraine Champagne-Ardenne || Lorraine, Champagne-Ardenne || 2 || Nancy, Reims |- | 6. || France 3 Méditerranée || Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur || 2 || Marseille, Antibes |- | 7. || France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie || Nord-Pas de Calais, Picardy || 2 || Lille, Amiens |- | 8. || France 3 Normandie || Lower Normandy, Upper Normandy || 2 || Caen, Rouen |- | 9. || France 3 Ouest || Brittany, Pays de la Loire || 2 || Rennes, Nantes |- | 10. || France 3 Paris Île-de-France Centre || Île-de-France (including Paris), Centre || 2 || Vanves, Orléans |- | 11. || France 3 Limousin Poitou-Charentes || Limousin, Poitou-Charentes || 2 || Limoges, Poitiers |- | 12. || France 3 Rhône Alpes Auvergne || Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne || 3 || Lyon, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand |- | 13. || France 3 Sud || Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées || 2 || Toulouse, Montpellier |}
Some news reports sourced from France 3 Ouest were aired by Channel Television for the now-defunct weekly news programme Rendezvous Dimanche. In Belgium, local programming from France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie has been known to receive twice the amount of viewers than in its intended coverage area.
{| class="wikitable" ! France 3 région !! Sub-region !! Number of opt-outs !! Bulletins !! News bureaux |- | Alsace || || 2|| Strasbourg Deux-Rives, Haute-Alsace || Strasbourg, Mulhouse |- | Aquitaine || || 4 || Pays Basque, Pau Sud-Aquitaine, Périgords, Bordeaux Métropole || Bayonne, Pau, Périgueux, Bordeaux |- | rowspan=2 | Bourgogne Franche-Comté || Bourgogne || 0|| |- | Franche-Comté || 0|| || |- | Corse || || 0|| || |- | rowspan=2 | Limousin Poitou-Charentes || Limousin || 2 || Limoges, Pays de Corrèze || Limoges, Brive-la-Gaillarde |- | Poitou-Charentes || 1 || Atlantique || La Rochelle |- | rowspan=2 | Lorraine Champagne-Ardenne || Lorraine || 2 || Metz, Nancy || Metz, Nancy |- | Champagne-Ardenne || 1 || Champagne Info || Reims |- | rowspan=2 | Méditerranée || Provence-Alpes || 2 || Marseille, Var || Marseille, Toulon |- | Côte d'Azur || 1 || Nice || Nice |- | rowspan=2 | Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie || Nord Pas-de-Calais || 2 || Côte d'Opale, Lille Métropole || Boulogne-sur-Mer, Lille |- || Picardie || 0|| || |- | rowspan=2 | Normandie || Haute-Normandie || 2 || Baie-de-Seine, Rouen Métropole || Le Havre, Rouen |- | Basse-Normandie || 2 || 7 jours en Cotentin (weekly), Caen Métropole || Cherbourg, Caen |- | rowspan=2 | Ouest || Pays de la Loire || 2 || Estuaire, Maine || Nantes, Le Mans |- | Bretagne || 2|| Haute-Bretagne, Iroise || Rennes, Brest |- | rowspan=2 | Paris Île-de-France Centre || Paris Île-de-France || 0|| || |- | Centre || 3 || Orléans Loiret, Touraine Val de Loire, Berry || Orléans, Tours, Déols |- | rowspan=3 | Rhône-Alpes Auvergne || Rhône-Alpes || 2 || Saint-Étienne, Grand Lyon || Saint-Étienne, Lyon |- | Alpes || 1 || Grenoble || Grenoble |- | Auvergne || 1 || Clermont Soir || Clermont-Ferrand |- | rowspan=2 | Sud || Midi-Pyrénées || 3 || Toulouse, Quercy-Rouergue, Tarn || Toulouse, Rodez, Albi |- | Languedoc-Roussillon || 3|| Montpellier, Pays Catalan, Pays Gardois || Montpellier, Perpignan, Nîmes |}
* France 3 Alsace also airs a daily bulletin in the Alsatian language (Rund um) as part of the 12|13 lunchtime news block. France 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comté airs a daily pan-regional magazine show, Ça manque pas d'air, instead of local news bulletins. The Soir 3 regional opt-out on France 3 Corse is in the Corsican language. France 3 Picardie airs a daily pan-regional discussion show, Quoi de neuf depuis?, instead of local news bulletins. France 3 Bretagne also airs a daily bulletin in the Breton language (An taol lagad) in the Iroise area as part of the 12|13 lunchtime news block. France 3 Paris Île-de-France airs additional pan-regional news coverage during this timeslot. France 3 Languedoc-Roussillon also airs bulletins in the Occitan language (Edicion Occitana) and Catalan language (Pais Catala) as part of 19|20 on Saturdays.
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