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1999 In French Television
This is a list of French television related events from 1999. Events *2 March – Nayah is selected to represent France at the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest with her song " Je veux donner ma voix". She is selected to be the forty-second French Eurovision entry during a national final held at the Olympia in Paris. Debuts *11 October – ''Un gars, une fille'' (1999–2003) (France 2) *'' Les Monos'' (1999–2004) (France 2) International *20 December – // '' Rayman: The Animated Series'' (1999–2000) (Gulli) * ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'' (1984–present) (Cartoon Network) Television shows 1940s *''Le Jour du Seigneur'' (1949–present) 1950s *''Présence protestante'' (1955–) 1970s *''30 millions d'amis'' (1976–2016) 1990s *''Sous le soleil'' (1996–2008) *'' Cap des Pins'' (1998–2000) Ending this year Networks and services Launches Conversions and rebrandings Closures Births Deaths See also *1999 in France Events from the year 1999 in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 Millions D'amis
''30 millions d'amis'' (English: "30 Million Friends") is a French television program, a French monthly magazine with its posters, and a French foundation: the Fondation 30 Millions d'Amis. All three focus on pets, especially cats, dogs, horses, ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, hamsters, mouse, mice, Domestic canary, canaries, parakeets, parrots, terrarium reptiles, goldfish, aquarium fish, and other exotic pets, but also wild animals like for example, bonobos and cheetahs. Television program The first episode of the program, initiative of the French journalist Jean-Pierre Hutin, who was worried about the fate of pets, was broadcast on 6 January 1976 on TF1. It is one of the television programs that has the fifth-longest longevity of the French audiovisual field, after ''Des chiffres et des lettres'', ''Automoto'', ''Thalassa (TV series), Thalassa'' and ''Stade 2''. The music of the title sequence was composed by Jack Arel. The program was ended by the channel on 27 December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Clémenti
Pierre André Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 27 December 1999) was a French actor. Life and career Born in Paris to an unknown father and Rose Clémenti, a Corsican concierge whose surname he took, Clémenti had a difficult childhood and took refuge in literature and the theatre. He studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in Yves Allégret's '' Jack of Spades'' ("Chien de pique", 1960), performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Possibly his best remembered role was as the gangster lover/client of the bourgeois prostitute (Catherine Deneuve) in '' Belle de Jour'' (1967) directed by Luis Buñuel, in whose other film '' The Milky Way'' (1969) he played the Devil. He worked with several other European directors, including in highly regarded films of the era, such as ''The Leopard'' (Luchino Visconti, 1963), ''Pigsty'' (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969) and '' The Conformist'' (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, and Bertolucci's '' Partner'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport+ (French TV Channel)
Sport+ was a French cable television channel on cable and satellite owned by Canal+ and is devoted to live sports broadcasting. History The channel originally launched on 23 December 1996 as AB Sports. AB Sports was created by AB Groupe to be the sports channel of its AB Sat satellite package. However, the channel was too expensive for AB Groupe to run and had generated poor viewing figures because of its programming focusing heavily on foreign sports. AB Groupe sold 51% of the capital of AB Sports for 39 million France to Pathé, then launched thematic television channels. Pathé eventually renamed the channel under their own branding, to Pathé Sport in May 1999, with its programming focusing more on the French public, which made the channel gain some notoriety due to that, the live coverage of sport events and the variety of sports they offered. The acquisition of Eurosport France by the TF1 Group at the beginning of 2001 and the subsequent decision of the Canal+ Group to la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automoto La Chaîne
Automoto la chaîne is a French television channel dedicated to motorsports. History of the channel The channel was created in March 1996 for the AB Sat package under the name Automobile as a channel dedicated to cars in all ways (collections, history of classic models, tracks, etc.). Due to the same of AB Sports to the Pathé group in 1997, the channel was reformatted to fill the gap on the AB Sat package, and appeal to a young male audience. The channel was renamed AB Moteurs in 1998 and contained programmes around various motorsport: cars, bikes, aeroplanes and boats, broadcasting a number of races live, in competitions with the other French sports channels, Eurosport and Sport+. In 2008, AB Moteurs tried to attract an even wider audience and consequently reformulates its grid around 4 main axes: live competition, tuning, tests and documentaries. Its main competitor was the Motors TV channel, which was available on AB Sat for a while. On 12 July 2018, Mediawan, owner o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animaux
Animaux is a French pay television channel themed about animals. History Created in April 1996 ahead of the launch of its digital satellite package AB Sat, AB Animaux was dedicated to animal documentaries. In 1999, it was renamed as Animaux. After rumours of the sale of the channel by AB Groupe at the start of 2006, the channel eventually ended up being exclusively shown on CanalSat by satellite at the time. On 1 May 2017, Animaux got its current rebranding. Owners *President: Jean-Michel Fava *Programme director: Richard Maroko *Marketing & Business Development director: Gregg Bywalski Budget Animaux is run by AB Sat SA with a budget of €24 million, 100% provided by Mediawan Thematics. Programmes The channel specialises in the environment, and principally shows animal documentaries. It has also introduced regular reports on the protection of flora and fauna. Allain Bougrain-Dubourg joined the channel as a director in 2005. Programmes *''Territoires Sau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chaîne Parlementaire
La Chaîne parlementaire (; French for ''The Parliamentary Channel'') is a French television network created, along with its sister station Public Sénat, by law on 30 December 1999. It films and broadcasts live and recorded debates twenty-four hours a day, including committee hearings, questions to the government, and discussions concerning parliamentary debates and government policy. There are programs that focus on different levels of government; some programs are about Europe, others about local government. Linked to Public Sénat from its inception, the two channels share content. The Public Sénat chain also broadcasts a nightly news analysis program and funds and broadcasts documentaries. Broadcasting history It started by broadcasting twice a week, Tuesday and Wednesday, in the afternoons on France 3. On 8 February 2000, the channel started broadcasting activity from the Senate of France The Senate (, ) is the upper house of the French Parliament, with the lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNews
CNews (; stylised as CNEWS, formerly i>Télé) is a French free-to-air opinion channel launched on 4 November 1999 by Canal+. It provides 24-hour national and global news coverage. It is the second most watched news network in France, after BFM TV and before LCI and France Info. i>Télé was renamed CNews on 27 February 2017. Since this change, it has taken a conservative editorial stance, and is often compared to the American TV channel Fox News. It has been many times warned by French regulators ( ARCOM) for its failure to honestly and rigorously report news to the public or for illegal and reprehensible speeches. Due to these infractions, it was fined €200,000 by the French audiovisual regulatory body in 2021. Despite the channel often violating the audiovisual laws and agreements for broadcasting on the free-to-air TV, it has so far never been really worried by the French authority of regulation. The channel is under the control of the media proprietor and business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartoon Network (French TV Channel)
Cartoon Network was a French children's television channel aimed at kids, available for France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Francophone Africa. It was a localized version of the original U.S. subscription channel of the same name launched on 23 August 1999 and is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery International under its French division. History In 1993 on the launched the day timesharing with TNT Classic Movies, in Europe. Although it was legally licensed in the UK, as it transmitted from London, the French and Belgian authorities objected to the American programming available in the French language.. In June 1998, an autonomic Cartoon Network was launched for Southern Europe (France, Spain and Italy). The Italian channel became independent a few months after, and on 23 August 1999, the French and Spanish channels were split. In 1999, all shows began to be shown in French.. Cartoon Network broadcast mainly Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. cartoons in the early 2000s. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OM TV
OM TV is a subscription based-channel, entirely dedicated to the French football team Olympique de Marseille Olympique de Marseille (, ; , ), also known simply as Marseille, or by the abbreviation OM (, ), is a French professional Association football, football club based in Marseille which competes in Ligue 1, the French football league system, top f .... The channel offers Marseille fans exclusive interviews with players and staff, full matches, including replays of all Ligue 1, Coupe de France, Coupe de la Ligue, Champions League/UEFA Cup and friendly games, in addition to vintage matches, footballing news and other themed programming. OM TV stopped broadcasting on August 31, 2018 for her digital modernization on the social networks and the website. OmTv/h1> References External linkswww.om.net Olympique de Marseille Sports television networks in France Television stations in France Defunct television channels in France Television channels and stations establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tide Of Life
''Tide of Life'' ("Cap des Pins") is the first French French television soap opera that is released every week-day. (1998–2000). starring: (Gérard Chantreuil), Claude Jade (Anna Chantreuil), (Brice Chantreuil), (Louise Chantreuil), Dora Doll (Agathe Chantreuil). Set in a small village in Brittany, and focusing on the activities at a health resort, led by Gérard Chantreuil. ''Tide Of Life'' incorporates all of the traditional soap ingredients – villains, unrequited love, ambition, murder and money. A new approach to all of those elements allows The Tide Of Life to explore stories that would have been considered taboo 10 years ago. The series focuses on the Chantreuil family and three local families entangled in a web of power, money and passion. The title song, "Contre vents et marées", is written by Eric Clapton and sung by Françoise Hardy Françoise Madeleine Hardy (; 17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024) was a French singer-songwriter, actress, and author. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sous Le Soleil
''Sous le soleil'' (''Under the sun''; ) is a French soap opera broadcast on French major channel TF1 from 1996 to 2008. A spin-off, ''Sous le soleil de Saint-Tropez'' has been broadcast in French channel TMC since 2013. Broadcast It has been a success in many countries, particularly in Latin America, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Italy, Slovakia, Russia, Turkey and Poland. In different times it was also shown in Hungary, Ukraine, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, USA and many other countries. In Serbia, the show has been on air continuously since 1998 on several different channels; as of 2009, the show is being syndicated in its entirety on several local television channels. In Montenegro (as well as in Serbia through cable), new episodes are being shown on Atlas TV. Plot and characters The plot focuses on the lives and romances of Laure, Caroline and Jessica, three young women living in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
