BFM TV is a news channel based in France

France

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 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.

Capital

BFM TV is held by the French group NextradioTV which also owns the radio stations BFM Radio and RMC

Radio Monte Carlo

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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 TPS

Télévision Par Satellite

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 and CanalSat

CanalSat

CanalSat is a French digital satellite and DSL pay television service. It is owned by Vivendi with a 65% share, minority shareholders are Lagardère , TF1 and M6...

 (see frequencies below), French digital terrestrial television, by DSL providers Free, Neuf

Neuf Cegetel

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, Alice, Orange, Tele2

Tele2

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, Club Internet, by mobile television on Orange and SFR

SFR

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, by cable providers Numéricable

Numericable

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, NOOS

Noos

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 and UPC

UPC Broadband

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, and live on the channel's website (in Windows Media

Windows Media

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 streaming).

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

MPEG-2

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 uncrypted :

• Hot Bird
  Hot Bird
  Hot Bird is the name of a popular family of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the Equator and with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East....
  
   13° : 11.585 GHz Pol V, SR27500 et FEC 2/3
• Astra
  SES Astra
  Astra is the name for the geostationary communication satellites, both individually and as a group, which are owned and operated by SES S.A., a global satellite operator based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg. The name is sometimes also used to describe the channels broadcasting from these...
  
   19.2°E
  Astra 19.2°E
  Astra 19.2°E is the name for the group of communications satellites co-located at the 19.2°East orbital position in the Clarke Belt that are owned and operated by SES Astra, a subsidiary of SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg....
  
  , 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

External links

• Official Site and live streaming