France 5 () is a French

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

public television channel, part of the

France Télévisions France Télévisions (; stylized since 2018 as ) is the French national public television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the integration of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (form ...

group. Principally featuring nonfiction and educational programming, the channel's motto is ''la chaîne de la connaissance et du savoir'' (the knowledge network). In contrast to the group's two main channels,

France 2 France 2 () is a French free-to-air public television channel. The flagship channel of France Télévisions, it broadcasts generalist programming including news, entertainment (such as dramas, films, and game shows), factual programmes, and sp ...

and

France 3 France 3 () is a French free-to-air Public broadcasting, public television network. The second flagship network of France Télévisions, it broadcasts a wide range of general and specialized programming. France 3 is structured as a Region ...

, France 5 concentrates almost exclusively on factual programming, documentaries, and discussions – 3,925 hours of documentaries were broadcast in 2003 – with fiction confined to one primetime slot of around two hours' duration on Monday evenings. France 5 airs 24 hours a day. Earlier – before completion of the switchover to

digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital signals rather than analogue signals for broadcasting over radio frequency bands (radio broadcasting). Digital television broadcasting (especially satellite television) is widespread. Digital ...

on 29 November 2011 – the channel's analogue frequencies had carried the programmes of the Franco-German cultural channel

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between 19.00 each evening and 3.00 the following morning.

History

It was launched on 28 March 1994 as a temporary channel under the name Télé emploi (Teleworking), more than one year after France's first privately owned free television network,

La Cinq La Cinq (, ) was a French free-to-air television channel. Created by politician Jérôme Seydoux and Italian media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, it existed from 1986 to 1992. The contract for France's fifth terrestrial network, which was suppos ...

, suffered a financial collapse and ceased operations on 12 April 1992. La Cinquième started broadcasting on 13 December 1994 with a mix of small educational programs, during the hours not used by

(which launched less than 2 months after La Cinq's closure). La Cinquième was integrated in the new

public holding in 2000, which gathered Antenne 2 (since renamed

) and FR3 (France Régions 3, since renamed

); it would be rebranded as France 5 on 1 September 2003. France 5 broadcasting hours have been extended to 24 hours a day, initially available only on cable and satellite, and since spring 2005 on air within the new digital broadcasting multiplex " R1" network that supports all national public TV channels. Analogue transmitters were switched off in 2011.

Logos

La Cinquième 1999.svg, Logo from 16 October 1999 till 31 August 2003 France-5-Logo.svg, Logo from 1 September 2003 till 7 April 2008 France 5 logo.png, Logo from 7 April 2008 till 29 January 2018 France 5 HD.svg, France 5 HD logo, 2011–2018 France 5 - logo 2018.svg, Logo from 29 January 2018 France 5 2018.svg, On-screen logo from 29 January 2018

Subsidiary

* La Cinquième Développement – former company, active from 1995 to 2001, wholly owned subsidiary of La Cinquième, responsible for managing telephone services,

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, and market a selection of programs of the chain on all media. These services were taken over by

subsidiaries at the end of 2000.

References

External links

Official Site
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History

Logos

Subsidiary

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