TV5MONDE is a global television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 network, broadcasting several channels of French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union

European Broadcasting Union

The European Broadcasting Union is a confederation of 74 broadcasting organisations from 56 countries, and 49 associate broadcasters from a further 25...

.

History

TV5 started in 1 January 1984 and was under the management of Serge Adda

Serge Adda

Serge Adda was the president of the French television station TV5.A Franco-Tunisian and an expert in political economy, Adda began his vocational career in 1971 as a researcher at CETEM . From 1975 to 1978 he was a director of research at École spéciale d'architecture.In...

 until November 2004; the new director, named on 6 April 2005 is Jean-Jacques Aillagon

Jean-Jacques Aillagon

Jean-Jacques Aillagon is a French politician, a close confidant of Jacques Chirac and member of the Union for a Popular Movement political party. From 1972 to 1976 he was a high school teacher in the Corrèze region of France...

, former French Minister for Culture and Communication

Minister of Culture (France)

The Minister of Culture is, in the Government of France, the cabinet member in charge of national museums and monuments; promoting and protecting the arts in France and abroad; and managing the national archives and regional "maisons de culture"...

. The present Director-General is Marie-Christine Saragosse.

In January 1992 TV5 underwent a major overhaul including re-branding as "TV5MONDE" to stress its focus as a global network ("Monde" is French for "World"). Also part of the changes are a new schedule and new program line-up. Since 1993, "TV5 Monde" is part of the channel's corporate name. Its Canadian operations are branded "TV5 Québec Canada", however, though the shorter version TV5 is also used.

TV5MONDE claims to be one of the top three most available global television network available around the world with CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

 and MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

.(source: TV5 web page in French)

Content

Most of its content is taken from mainstream networks in the French-speaking world

La Francophonie

Francophonie is an international organization of politics and governments with French as the mother or customary language, where a significant proportion of people are francophones , or where there is a notable affiliation with the French language or culture.Formally known as the Organisation...

, notably France Télévisions

France Télévisions

France Télévisions is the French public national television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the bringing together of the public television channels France 2 and France 3 , later joined by the legally independent channels France 5 , France Ô , and France 4 France Télévisions ...

 from France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, RTBF

RTBF

Radio Télévision Belge Francophone is the public broadcasting organization of the French Community of Belgium, the southern, French-speaking part of Belgium...

 from Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

, TSR

Télévision Suisse Romande

Télévision Suisse Romande is a TV network with 2 channels: TSR 1 and TSR 2. They are the main French language channels in Switzerland, part of SRG SSR idée suisse...

 from Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

, and the Radio-Canada

Télévision de Radio-Canada

Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in French as Société Radio-Canada. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT...

 and TVA

TVA (TV network)

TVA is a privately owned French language television network in Canada. The network is currently owned by Groupe TVA Inc. , a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media...

 networks in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. In addition to international news, TV5MONDE broadcasts Ligue 1

Ligue 1

Ligue 1 , is the French professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's primary football competition and serves as the top division of the French football league system. Ligue 1 is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the other being Ligue 2....

, films and music magazines.

Interesting facts

• News program - Newsreaders wear the same outfit everyday, though they may vary in color. Black for male newsreaders and white for female and same gender. Newscasters must strongly project their voices when on air. Newscasts start typically with a full colour slide, followed by a slow fade to the anchor. The set has the background of Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
   with Eiffel Tower
  Eiffel Tower
  The Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world...
  
   and Arc de Triomphe
  Arc de Triomphe
  -The design:The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin , in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture . Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot; François Rude; Antoine Étex; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire...
  
  .
• Program schedule - Programs have no set time at which to air (The programming is not pegged to air at every half hour, hour, etc.). This is probably due to the cut out of commercials for imported programs.
• Test card - They air testcards, simulcasting the Radio France Internationale
  Radio France Internationale
  Radio France Internationale was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the Government of France, and replaced the Poste Colonial , Paris Mondial , Radio Paris , RTF Radio Paris and ORTF Radio Paris...
  
   at some intervals.
• Imported syndicated programming - TV5Monde dubs all dialogue and will plaster it on top of the original soundtrack.
• Movies - They are usually rated PG or R or their equivalents and are not intended for younger viewers.

Technical data

French broadcasters use PAL

PAL

PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is an analogue television colour encoding system used in broadcast television systems in many countries. Other common analogue television systems are NTSC and SECAM. This page primarily discusses the PAL colour encoding system...

 format for their broadcasting and introduced relay reception by a communication satellite in 1 January 1984.

TV5MONDE is not to be mistaken for France's news agency has : Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse is a French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. It is also the largest French news agency. Currently, its CEO is Emmanuel Hoog and its news director Philippe Massonnet...

 and France 24

France 24

France 24 is an international news and current affairs television channel. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, DW-TV, NHK World and RT, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world. During 2010 the channel started broadcasting through...

.

Identity

There are 5 idents broadcast daily since 1984, each having the same voice-over.

• Startup ident: The volours background with TV5Monde's, with the voice-over TV5Monde.
• News ident: The blue background with TV5Monde's logo and Eiffel Tower flying in slowly, without voice-over.
• Night Time news ident: Same as news ident, but with different characters, broadcast only at 22:30.
• Closedown ident: Same as startup ident, but different voice over, and in the blue background. Followed by the program schedule.

News

As there is only one news ident.

The blue background with TV5Monde's logo and Eiffel Tower flying in slowly, without voice-over.

Clocks

There is only one clock, broadcast on New Year's Eve at 23:59. The clock changes every year.

Test Card

There are test card changes from time-to-time.

• 1984–present - EBU Colour Bars
  Test card
  A test card, also known as a test pattern in North America and Australia, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast...
  
   and Philips PM5544
  Philips PM5544
  The Philips PM5544 is a television pattern generator, most commonly used to provide a television station with a complex test card commonly referred to as a Philips Pattern or PTV Circle. The content and layout of the pattern was designed in the Philips TV laboratory in Copenhagen by chief engineer...
  
   testcard with time

Closing and Opening times

• 1984–present
  • Every day, 5:00-0:00 (19-hours)
• On national holidays
  • Every day, 5:00-0:00 (19-hours)

Startup

TV5Monde generally signs on at 5:00 am with clock ident

Clock ident

A clock ident is a form of television ident that employs a clock displaying the current time with the station logo, typically used before news bulletins and closedown.-Appearance:...

, national anthem

La Marseillaise

"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. The song, originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792. The French National Convention adopted it as the Republic's anthem in 1795...

 along with shots of national flag

Flag of France

The national flag of France is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured royal blue , white, and red...

 on which an image of the Eiffel Tower appears, station ident, announcer then appears welcoming viewers to the day's transmission and start-up sequence lasts just over six minutes.

Closedown

TV5Monde signs off at around 0:00 am each evening with an extended preview of the next day's schedule followed by an in-vision closing announcement, clock ident, national anthem along with shots of the national flag on which an image of the Eiffel Tower appears, station ident and test card.

Viewing outside France

TV5Monde is broadcast free-to-air on AsiaSat 3S, so with the appropriate equipment can be picked up in Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

, Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 and Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

.

The daily TV5Monde news bulletin is also distributed online through this Agence France-Presse and France 24.

Ownership

The number "5" in the name is the number of founding networks: Télévision Française 1

TF1

TF1 is a national French TV channel, controlled by TF1 Group, whose major share-holder is Bouygues. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network...

, Télévision Française 2

France 2

France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

, Télévision Française 3

France Ô

France Ô is a French public television network featuring programming from the French overseas departments and collectivities in Metropolitan France. It is part of the France Télévisions group...

, France 24, Radio France

Radio France

Radio France is a French public service radio broadcaster.-Mission:Radio France's two principal missions are:* To create and expand the programming on all of their stations; and...

 (including : France Inter

France Inter

France Inter is a major French public radio channel and part of Radio France. It is a "generalist" station, aiming to provide a wide national audience with a full service of news and intelligent spoken-word programming, both serious and entertaining, liberally punctuated with an eclectic mix of...

 and France Info

France Info

France Info is a major French public news radio station, part of the Radio France group. The station is available across the country broadcasting world news 24 hours...

) and Radio France Internationale

Radio France Internationale

Radio France Internationale was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the Government of France, and replaced the Poste Colonial , Paris Mondial , Radio Paris , RTF Radio Paris and ORTF Radio Paris...

. Today, the partnership making up the TV5MONDE consortium are Arte

Arte

Arte is a Franco-German TV network. It is a European culture channel and aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts...

 (itself a consortium of Franco-German broadcasters), France Télévisions, Institut national de l'audiovisuel

Institut national de l'audiovisuel

The Institut national de l'audiovisuel , is a repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives. Additionally it provides customers with a free and immediate access to archives of countries such as Afghanistan and Cambodia...

, Radio-Canada

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

, Télé-Québec

Télé-Québec

Télé-Québec is a French language public educational television network in the Canadian province of Quebec. Known legally as Société de télédiffusion du Québec , it is a provincial crown corporation owned by the Government of Quebec...

, Télévision Française 1, Télévision Française 2, Télévision Française 3, France 24, Radio France (including : France Inter and France Info) and Radio France Internationale. This consortium owns 51% of the service, while the other 49% is owned by Société de l'audiovisuel extérieur de la France, a holding company that manages France's international broadcasting services.

Channels

As of 2006, eight editions are being transmitted:

• TV5MONDE FBS (France, Belgium, Switzerland)
• TV5MONDE Europe (rest of Europe
  Europe
  Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
  
  )
• TV5MONDE Afrique (Africa, except Maghreb
  Maghreb
  The Maghreb is the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. It includes five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara...
  
  )
• TV5MONDE Maghreb - Orient (Maghreb
  Maghreb
  The Maghreb is the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. It includes five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara...
  
  , Middle East)
• TV5MONDE Asie (rest of Asia)
• TV5MONDE États-Unis *(United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  ) with English subtitles
• TV5MONDE Amérique Latine & Caraïbes (Latin America
  Latin America
  Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
  
   and the Caribbean
  Caribbean
  The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
  
  ) with Spanish subtitles
• TV5MONDE Pacifique (Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
   - South Korea
  South Korea
  The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
  
   - Oceania
  Oceania
  Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...
  
  )
• TV5 Québec Canada **(Canada)

(*) TV5MONDE États-Unis has certain programs subtitled in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. Particularly the News Journals and movies are subtitled in English language. It is impossible to watch a French movie without English language subtitles on TV5MONDE États-Unis.
(**) TV5 Québec Canada is produced in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, the other seven channels from Paris under the name TV5MONDE.

Europe

TV5MONDE FBS and TV5MONDE Europe are Free-To-Air

Free-to-air

Free-to-air describes television and radio services broadcast in clear form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription or one-off fee...

.

• Albania
  Albania
  Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
  
  : TV5MONDE Europe can be found on analogue broadcasting
  PAL
  PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is an analogue television colour encoding system used in broadcast television systems in many countries. Other common analogue television systems are NTSC and SECAM. This page primarily discusses the PAL colour encoding system...
  
   in some Albanian municipalities on channels 43, 35, 50, 39, 25, 56 UHF.
• Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
  : TV5MONDE Europe can be found on analogue or digital cable.
• Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  : TV5MONDE Europe can be found on Yes channel 131.
• Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  : TV5MONDE Europe can be found on SKY Italia
  Sky Italia
  Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation launched on 1 August 2003, when the former platforms TELE+ and Stream TV merged together...
  
   channel 540 and on IPTV
  IPTV
  Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...
  
   Infostrada TV
  Infostrada TV
  -DTT and Radio channels:* Rai Uno* Rai Due* Rai Tre* Rai Quattro* Rete 4* Canale 5* Italia 1* La7* Rai Gulp* MTV Italy* Sportitalia* Sportitalia 24* Boing* Rai News 24* All Music* Iris* Coming Soon Television* Rai Sport Più* Class News...
  
  , Tiscali TV and Alice Home TV
  Alice Home TV
  Alice Home TV is Telecom Italia S.p.A. IPTV service in Italy launched in November 2005.SKY Italia and Mediaset Premium channels are available with a separate subscription.-National Terrestrial Channels:-Entertainment:-Sports:-News:-Teens & Music:...
  
   on the same channel number and on TV di FASTWEB
  TV di FASTWEB
  TV di Fastweb is Fastweb's cable television and IPTV service. Its major features are the On Demand channels , with also an HDTV On Demand channel, and an advanced interactive service, available thanks to the Videostation, the decoder TV di Fastweb gives to its subriscribers....
  
   channel 68.
• Norway
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
  : TV5MONDE Europe can be found on Canal Digital
  Canal Digital
  Canal Digital is a Scandinavian television distributor and internet service provider that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay-TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor...
  
   channel 152.
• Republic of Ireland
  Republic of Ireland
  Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
  
  : UPC Ireland
  UPC Ireland
  UPC Ireland is Liberty Global Europe's telecommunications operation in Ireland. UPC Ireland is the largest digital cable television provider within the Republic of Ireland. As of September 2010 the company offers broadband internet, digital television and digital telephony to over 531,000 customers...
  
  : 825; Sky: 799
• Romania
  Romania
  Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
  
  : TV5MONDE Europe can be found on Dolce
  Dolce (satellite television)
  Dolce is a DTH platform of Romtelecom, a Romanian telephony and Internet provider.As of 2008, Dolce has more than 9 000 000 customers.-Basic package:-MaxPak:-Explorer:-Active:-Kids:-Style:-Midnight:-Hungarian:-Future channels:...
  
   channel 116.
• Spain
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
  : TV5MONDE Europe can be found on ONO (Spain)
  ONO (Spain)
  ONO is a Spanish broadband communication and entertainment company, delivering integrated telephone, television and Internet services to its residential customers. In this segment, it has 3.7 million services contracted and over six million users....
  
   cable channel 402.
• Turkey
  Turkey
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
  
  : TV5MONDE Europe can be found on Digiturk
  Digiturk
  Digiturk is a Turkish Satellite television provider, founded in 1999, with services starting in mid-2000. They offer, both national cable TV channels and their own channels, national radio, and music streams of different genres. Digiturk is also the current owner of the broadcasting rights of...
  
   channel 102 and Turkish Cable Television.
• United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
  : TV5MONDE Europe can be found on Sky channel 799 and on digital cable
  Digital cable
  Digital cable is a generic term for any type of cable television distribution using digital video compression or distribution. The technology was originally developed by Motorola.-Background:...
  
   on Virgin Media
  Virgin Media
  Virgin Media Inc. is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom...
  
   on channel 825.

North America

TV5MONDE is not Free-To-Air in North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

. In North America, other channels have taken up the task to offer a programming which contains some shows in the French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. Those channels are: Canal Algerie

Entreprise nationale de télévision

' is the Algerian national public television network. The group manages the television channel with the same name, Canal Algérie, Algérie 3 and Tamazight TV.-Programs:...

 and ORTM

Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision du Mali

The Office of Radio and Television of Mali is the national broadcaster of the West African state of Mali.-Current output:...

 (Mali). Those channels can be found on satellite Galaxy 19 (97W).

• In the United States, TV5MONDE is one of several foreign-language premium channels offered by International Networks
  International Networks
  International Media Distribution is a United States media company that markets and distributes international television channels to cable and satellite operators in the US and Canada. It also distributes multi-ethnic television programming to consumers via Video on demand services...
  
  . It cannot be purchased without a subscription to additional unrelated channels; Dish Network
  Dish Network
  Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
  
   and Verizon FiOS
  Verizon FiOS
  Verizon FiOS is a bundled Internet access, telephone, and television service which operates over a fiber-optic communications network. It is offered in some areas of the United States by Verizon Communications. Verizon was one of the first major U.S...
  
   allow the addition of TV5MONDE as an a la carte selection for $9.99 a month.
• TV5 Québec Canada is a French Canadian
  French Canadian
  French Canadian or Francophone Canadian, , generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France in the 17th and 18th centuries...
  
   version of TV5MONDE. It offers largely the same programming schedule, with the exception that programming from Radio-Canada, which is already available across Canada, is replaced with content from the provincial educational networks Télé-Québec
  Télé-Québec
  Télé-Québec is a French language public educational television network in the Canadian province of Quebec. Known legally as Société de télédiffusion du Québec , it is a provincial crown corporation owned by the Government of Quebec...
  
   and TFO
  TFO
  TFO is a Canadian French language educational public television network in the province of Ontario. It is the only French-language television network in Canada whose operations are based entirely outside of Quebec....
  
  . As with TV5MONDE, TV5 Québec Canada is also a cooperative effort, though involving French Canadian networks and producers.
• In Mexico
  Mexico
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
  
   and most countries of Central America
  Central America
  Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...
  
   and The Caribbean, TV5MONDE is shown on satellite service SKY México
  SKY México
  SKY México is a company that operates a subscription television service in the Mexico, Central America, Dominican Republic area. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels...
  
   on Channel 277.

South America

TV5MONDE is not Free-To-Air in South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

.

• In Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
  , TV5MONDE is offered by SKY Brasil
  SKY Brasil
  SKY Brasil is a company that operates a subscription television service in Brazil. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels. 7% of the equity is owned and operated by Globo the remainder is owned by DirecTV.-History:...
  
   on channel 108, Via Embratel
  Via Embratel
  Via Embratel is a Brazilian operator of Pay television. The service is supplied by Embratel company and operates in Star One C2 satellite. Its transmission system is DTH in Ku Band, and the channels are encrypted by Nagravision 3 system. The reception is made via mini-satellite dish and a DVB-S2...
  
   on channel 132, Net
  Net Serviços de Comunicação S/A
  NET is the largest cable television operator in Latin America. The company's Net service had around 23.5 million subscribers as of June 2009...
  
   and TVA
  Televisão Abril
  TVA - Televisão Abril is a Brazilian subscription television operator, working with Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service analog system, analog cable and digital cable...
  
  .

Asia, Australia and New Zealand

It is free to air from the AsiaSat 3S satellite, covering most of Asia and Australia. Triangle TV

Triangle TV

Triangle Television and Stratos Television are public service television stations based in Auckland, New Zealand. Triangle broadcasts across Auckland on analogue UHF, while Stratos broadcasts around New Zealand on the Freeview, Sky TV and TelstraClear cable digital platforms...

 in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

 and Wellington

Wellington

Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

 rebroadcasts some news programmes. In Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, StarHub TV service broadcasts it on Channel 152 for its digital service customers on MediaCorp TV Channel 5

MediaCorp TV Channel 5

MediaCorp Channel 5 or Channel 5 is a 24-hour free-to-air English and Malay language television channel based in Singapore....

 and MediaCorp TV HD5

MediaCorp TV HD5

MediaCorp TV HD5 or HD5 is a 24-hour Singapore first over-the-air HDTV channel simulcasting HD version of MediaCorp TV Channel 5 programming when available...

. In India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, Zee Network

Zee Network

The Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. is the largest Indian media and entertainment company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a subsidiary of the Essel Group...

 provides this channel for its Dish Network

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

 DTH services subscribers. Also, many others like Hathway

Hathway

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd is a major cable television service operator in India that is based in Mumbai. It has large operations in many cities, including Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore. It has diversified into providing internet via cable and was one of the first to do so in Chennai. In...

 cable TV and local cable TV operators offer TV5Monde free of cost. The channel is also available in Japan on Fuji Television

Fuji Television

is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....

 platform and Television New Zealand

Television New Zealand

Television New Zealand, more commonly referred to, and stylized as TVNZ, is a government-owned corporation television network broadcasting in New Zealand and parts of the Pacific. It operates TV1, TV2, TVNZ7, TVNZ Heartland, TVNZ U and new media services....

 in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

.

In South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

, ISP provider Qrix offers TV5 on its premium HD cable package and will begin offering it via IPTV from Feb. 16.

• India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  : TV5MONDE Asia can be found on Dish TV
  Dish TV
  Dish TV India Limited is an Indian company engaged in the business of providing direct-to-home satellite television service, which includes teleport service, customer support and transponder space leasing. Dishtv is a division of Zee Network Enterprise . It uses MPEG-2 digital compression...
  
   channel 731.
• Indonesia
  Indonesia
  Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
  
  : TV5MONDE Asia can be found on Indovision
  Indovision
  Indovision is a subscription-based direct broadcast satellite or direct-to-home satellite television and radio service initially in Indonesia. Indovision is currently owned by PT MNC Skyvision.-History:Indovision began operations in 1994....
  
   channel 356, First Media
  First Media
  First Media is a triple play Cable Television network in Indonesia.The products are Fastnet, HomeCable, and DataComm. Because First Media is a relatively new company the coverage area is limited.-FastNet:...
  
   channel 260 and OkeVision
  OkeVision
  Okevision is a brand name made by PT Nusantara Vision, and is a subscription based Satellite Television. Launched in November 2008, it is one of the newest satellite television service available in Indonesia....
  
   channel 158.
• Singapore: TV5MONDE Asia can be found on StarHub TV channel 152.
• Taiwan
  Taiwan
  Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
  
  : TV5MONDE Asia can be found on CHT MOD channel 111.
• Thailand
  Thailand
  Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
  
  : TV5MONDE Asia can be found on TrueVisions
  TrueVisions
  TrueVisions is Thailand's leading cable satellite television operator, broadcasting largely in English. Now owned by the True Corporation, the company was formerly known as the United Broadcasting Corporation , but it was rebranded in February 2007....
  
  channel 143.

External links

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• TV5Monde US
• TV5Monde Asia
• TV5Monde Charter