BFM TV

BFM TV
Launched	28 November 2005
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audience share	1.8% (July 2012, Médiamétrie)
Country	France
Language	French
Website	www.bfmtv.com
Availability
Terrestrial
TNT	Channel 15 (SD)
Satellite
CanalSat	Channel 54
Bis Televisions	Channel 15
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal	Channel 59
Cable
Numericable	Channel 53 (HD)
MC Cable	Channel 85
Coditel	Channel 263
IPTV
Freebox TV	Channel 15 (HD)
SFR	Channel 15 (HD)
Alice France	Channel 15 (HD)
DartyBox	Channel 15 (HD)
Orange TV	Channel 15 (HD)

BFM TV (stylized as BFMTV) is a news channel based in France and available in the whole world via digital television, cable and satellite. Its name is a combination of "BFM" (presently BFM Radio) and the acronym "TV". It is currently the most watched news network in France.

History

The BFM TV project is officially launched on December 14, 2004 by NextRadioTV group.

It was accepted by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel on May 5, 2005 and the channel started broadcasting on the evening of November 28, 2005.

The ratings continuously increased and the network is the most watched news channel in France since June 2008. With a 1.8 national share (mid-2012), it greatly exceeds it's first competitor, I-Télé (0.7 national share).

As the ratings and the advertising revenues increased, the budget of the network peaked at 50 million euros in 2011, compared to 15 million in 2006.

Chairman and CEO is Alain Weill since 2005.^[1]

Broadcasting

It has been launched first on the French digital terrestrial television (known as TNT, télévision numérique terrestre) and is broadcast free 24 hours a day, by satellite on CanalSat (see frequencies below), French digital terrestrial television, by DSL providers Free, Neuf, Alice, Orange, by mobile television on Orange and SFR, by cable provider Numericable, and live on the channel's website (in Windows Media streaming).

BFM TV is freely broadcast by satellite in DVB-S MPEG-2 uncrypted :

• Hot Bird 13° : 11.585 GHz Pol V, SR27500 et FEC 2/3
• Astra 19.2°E, 11.508 GHz, Pol V, SR 22000 et FEC 5/6

Presenters

• Ronald Guintrange
• Thomas Misrachi
• Stéphanie de Muru
• Ruth Elkrief
• Olivier Mazerolle
• Florence Duprat
• Jean Alexandre Baril
• Guillaume Vanhems
• Rachid M'Barki

References

1. ^ Website BFM TV, retrieved 14 July 2012

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

External links

• Official Site and live streaming (French)

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