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TF1
TF1 (Télévision Française 1)
Launched 13 February 1935
Owned by TF1 Group
Audience share 27. Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. TF1 Group is a French media holding company ( Groupe TF1 in French the owner of channel TF1, the largest European private TV channel and Eurosport 2% (April 2008, [1])
Country Flag of France France
Formerly called Radio-PTT Vision (1935-1939)
Fernsehsender Paris (Paris-Télévision) (1943-1944)
Télévision Française
(1944-1945)
RDF Télévision Française (1945-1949)
RTF Télévision (1949-1963)
La première chaîne (1963-1964)
La Première Chaîne de la ORTF (1964-1975)
Sister channel(s) LCI
Eurosport
France 24
TF6
Website www.tf1.fr
Availability
Terrestrial
SECAM Channel 1
TNT Channel 1
Satellite
Atlantic Bird Channel 1
CanalSat Channel 1
Cable
Noos Channel 1
Numéricable Channel 1
MC Cable Channel 3
Cablecom Channel 107
IPTV over ADSL
TPSL Channel 1
Orange Telecom Channel 1
DartyBox Channel 1
Freebox TV Channel 1

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Together with France Télévisions, TF1 co-manages the international French news channel France 24. France Télévisions (fʁɑ̃s televiʒjɔ̃ is the French public national television broadcaster French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people France 24 (pronounced France Vingt-Quatre vɛ̃tkatʁ on all three editions is an international news and current affairs Television channel

TF1 originally stood for Télévision Française 1 (French Television 1) but since its 1987 privatisation, the abbreviation is no longer expanded, since this would introduce a confusion with France Télévisions. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) France Télévisions (fʁɑ̃s televiʒjɔ̃ is the French public national television broadcaster

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Criticism

TF1 is criticized for pandering to the "lowest common denominator": emphasis on non-informative "news", anecdotes, TV games and shows; some calling it "Trash TV". Tabloid talk shows are a genre of American television talk-shows that achieved peak viewership during the late 20th century In 2004 Patrick Le Lay, CEO of TF1 made the following statement:

"There are many ways to speak about TV, but in a business perspective, let's be realistic: at the basis, TF1's job is helping Coca-Cola, for example, to sell its product. Coca-Cola is a carbonated Soft drink sold in stores restaurants and Vending machines in more than 200 countries What we sell to Coca-Cola is available human brain time. Nothing is more difficult than obtaining this availability. This is where permanent change is located. We must always look out for popular programs, follow trends, surf on tendencies, in a context in which information is speeding up, getting manifold and trivialized. " [2]

Critics of TF1 also contend that its news coverage is slanted towards supporting right-wing politicians — they were in particular accused of supporting Édouard Balladur in the 1995 presidential elections, and of overstating crime during the 2002 electoral campaign to tilt the balance in favour of former French president Jacques Chirac, who campaigned on law-strengthening proposals. In Politics, right-wing, the political right, and the Right are positions that uphold traditional values and/or authorities A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person Édouard Balladur (born 2 May 1929 is a French right-wing Politician. Presidential elections took place in France on 23 April and 7 May 1995 to elect the fifth president of the Fifth Republic. In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or Law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a Punishment The 2002 French presidential election consisted of a first round election on 21 April 2002 and a runoff election between the top two candidates ( Jacques Chirac and Immigration and violence are still amalgamated in most of the channel's news programmes. Heads and famous journalists of TF1 are close friends to some of the most powerful politicians in France. TF1 allegedly gives them a hand before elections — Nicolas Sarkozy (current president of France) is a frequent guest of the channel — and expects from them a more liberal legislation on media matters, if not a bonus for Bouygues when a public contract must be signed. Nicolas Sarkozy (pronounced, Bouygues ( is a French industrial group listed on Euronext Paris exchange and is a blue chip in the CAC 40 Stock market index

In addition, it is occasionally alleged that news reports from TF1 tend to ignore issues yielding a bad light on their parent group (Bouygues), while stressing problems of competitors (such as VINCI). Vinci ( is a French Construction and Electrical engineering company, formerly called Société Générale d'Enterprises

As of 2005/2006, average ratings range from 30-35%. Programs shown on the network are more likely to be taken off the air if these figures are not met.

Such criticism is heavy in the satirical show Les Guignols de l'info, broadcast on rival private network Canal Plus. Les Guignols de l'info ( English: News Puppets is a satirical Latex Puppet show broadcast on Canal+ ("Canal Plus" "C+" meaning "Channel Plus/More" in French is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984 However, TF1 now competes in this category with M6, which was initially a generalist channel focusing on musical programmes, but now has programming more resembling TF1 (notably, reality shows that TF1 started running just after M6 introduced them). Métropole 6, known popularly as simply M6, is a French Television service owned by a company called Métropole Télévision.

Programmes

In 2005, TF1 launced TF1Vision, a video on demand service. If you came here to express your personal opinion about Pokémon please go somewhere else See also Dora the Female Explorer Dora the Explorer is an American Animated television series that is carried on the Nickelodeon is a Japanese Anime that is adapted from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series Video on demand ( VOD) or Audio video on demand ( AVOD) systems allow users to select and watch/listen

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Patrick Le Lay, in Les dirigeants français et le changement, 2004, ISBN 2-914119-33-X. French quote: « Il y a beaucoup de façons de parler de la télévision, mais dans une perspective business, soyons réaliste: à la base, le métier de TF1, c'est d'aider Coca-Cola, par exemple, à vendre son produit. Ce que nous vendons à Coca-Cola, c'est du temps de cerveau humain disponible. Rien n’est plus difficile que d’obtenir cette disponibilité. C’est là que se trouve le changement permanent. Il faut chercher en permanence les programmes qui marchent, suivre les modes, surfer sur les tendances, dans un contexte où l’information s’accélère, se multiplie et se banalise.

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