TV5Monde (), formerly known as TV5, is a French

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network, broadcasting several channels of

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programming. It is an approved participant member of the

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. The network is available across Europe on

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via Astra 19.2°E and

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(13°E) (both

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

), online and via

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Summary

TV5 started on 2 January 1984 and was under the management of

Serge Adda Serge Adda (19 September 1948 in Tunis – 6 November 2004 in Paris) was the president of the French television station TV5. Life Adda was born in 1948 to a Tunisian-Jewish family, the son of Gladys Adda and Georges Adda. His parents were b ...

until his death in November 2004. The next director from 6 April 2005 was

Jean-Jacques Aillagon Jean-Jacques Aillagon (; born 2 October 1946, Metz) is a French museum director and politician. Aillagon was a close confidant of Jacques Chirac, as well as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) political party. He became Minist ...

, a former French Minister for Culture and Communication. The director-general is now Marie-Christine Saragosse. In January 2006, TV5 underwent a major overhaul, including rebranding as "TV5Monde" to stress its focus as a global network ("Monde" is French for "World"). Also, the changes included a new schedule and a new program line-up. Since 1993, "TV5 Monde" is part of the channel's corporate name. Its Canadian operations are branded "TV5 Québec Canada", but the shorter version TV5 is also used.

History

TV5 was formed on 2 January 1984, under the guidance of

Claude Cheysson Claude Cheysson (; 13 April 1920 – 15 October 2012) was a French Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Pierre Mauroy from 1981 to 1984. Career Cheysson was born in Paris and attended the Cours Hattemer, ...

, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and TV5 President

, by five public television channels:

TF1 TF1 (; standing for ''Télévision Française 1'') is a French commercial television network owned by TF1 Group, controlled by the Bouygues conglomerate. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network. TF1 is part ...

Antenne 2 France 2 () is a French free-to-air public television channel. The flagship channel of France Télévisions, it broadcasts generalist programming including news, entertainment (such as dramas, films, and game shows), factual programmes, and sp ...

and FR3 from

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, the

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Télévision Suisse Romande and the Belgian

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. The "5" from the name TV5 comes from the five public broadcasters. On 18 December 1985, TV5 was amongst the first four channels carried by cable television in France, inaugurated in

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. Following its privatisation in 1987, TF1 retired from the TV5 consortium but continued to supply its programmes to the channel until 1995. On 1 September 1988,

TV5 Québec Canada TV5 Québec Canada (abbreviated to TV5) is a Canadian French-language specialty channel that focuses primarily on programming from international French-speaking broadcasters. The channel shares a broadcast licence with its sister network, Unis, ...

was created, followed by TV5 Afrique in 1991. The following year, TV5 transmitted using digital compression towards Latin America and the Caribbean. Its coverage was expanded in 1996 with the launch of its Asian-Pacific signal with TV5 Asie-Pacifique and the subscription channel TV5 États-Unis in the United States. Two years later, the Middle East feed was launched with TV5 Moyen-Orient in 1998. In early 1999, TV5 split its European signal into two, with the launch of TV5 France Belgique Suisse, a signal specific to

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Europe (France, Belgium, Switzerland,

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). TV5 Europe continued to serve the wider continental audience. A consortium formed by public channels

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and

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entered into the capital of the channel, which brought with it new sources of programming. A new schedule was constructed, centred on news programmes such as news flashes on the hour, two TV5 bulletins and rebroadcasts of its partners' main news programmes (''20 Heures'' from France 2, ''Soir 3'' from France 3, ''Le Journal'' from TSR/RTS and ''13 Heures'' from RTBF). A meeting with ministers from TV5 in

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, Switzerland, gave a mandate to the channel's council of co-operation to reform the structure of the channel in the view of creating a unique worldwide channel. The national governments in charge of the five participants gave an agreement to turn management of TV5 États-Unis and TV5 Amérique Latine over to TV5 Monde, the new name for the channel's head operations in Paris. From the

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in 2001 to the 2003 Iraq War, the media coverage put the spotlight on TV5's particular way of broadcasting news bulletins from its member public broadcasters. International conflicts arising from the decision to go to war by the United States and the United Kingdom in which France notably refused to participate had relaunched the debate over whether to create an international news channel from a French perspective, resulting in the 2006 launch of

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. With the creation of France 24 placing TV5's own existence in doubt, its new CEO,

decided from 1 January 2006 to rename the channel to TV5Monde to underline its status better as the only international

channel available on-air (France 24 was then available only in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the United States cities of New York and Washington, DC, in French). Aillagon stepped down from his post on 3 March 2006. The name TV5Monde applies only to its eight different signals, broadcast from its Paris headquarters. In

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, such as in French-speaking

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

, TV5 Quebec Canada is managed from

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, which keeps the original name TV5, as it is operated by an independent company that is distinct from TV5Monde. As well as being part of the TV5 family, TV5 Quebec Canada has its own management and its schedule is made with the Canadian viewer in mind and to conform to Canadian broadcast regulations, which, sets domestic production quotas and limits foreign investors to a minority stake. In 2007, a new programme schedule saw the reduction of programming from

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(France 2, 3 and 5), for example, ti one daily news bulletin from France 2 by abandoning France 3's midday news programme. In 2008, TV5Monde became part of holding company France Monde. In 2009, TV5Monde split its Asia-Pacific signal into two, one of them being TV5Monde Asie, a feed for territories located between GMT+8 (Hong Kong) and GMT+12 (New Zealand). TV5Monde's Pacific signal is an adaptation of its existing Asian signal that has been adopted to its time zones to serve its viewers better. It currently broadcasts in Oceania and, despite the signal's name, in Japan, South Korea and South East Asia. On 25 February 2015, the new signal TV5Monde Brésil was launched broadcasting its programming with Portuguese subtitles.

was announced to be joining the service with its public service broadcaster,

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(formerly called Monte-Carlo Riviera TV before its launch), from 1 September 2023.

April 2015 cyberattack and resulting disruption

On the evening of 8 April 2015, TV5Monde was the victim of a

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by a hacker group known as "CyberCaliphate", which claimed to have ties to the terrorist organization

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(ISIL). The hackers breached the broadcaster's internal systems in what Director Yves Bigot described as an "unprecedented" attack, overriding TV5Monde's

broadcast Broadcasting is the data distribution, distribution of sound, audio audiovisual content to dispersed audiences via a electronic medium (communication), mass communications medium, typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), ...

programming for over three hours, with service only partially restored in the early hours of the following morning. Normal broadcasting services were still disrupted late into 9 April. Various computerised internal administrative and support systems including e-mail were also still shut down or otherwise inaccessible because of the attack. The hackers also hijacked TV5Monde's

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and

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pages to post the personal information of relatives of French soldiers participating in actions against the organization, along with messages critical of President

François Hollande François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France), First Secretary of th ...

arguing that the January 2015 terrorist attacks were "gifts" for his "unforgivable mistake" of partaking in conflicts that "

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no purpose". As part of the official response to the attack, the French Minister of Culture and Communications,

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, called for an emergency meeting of the heads of various major media outlets and groups. The meeting took place on 10 April at an undisclosed location.

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called the attack "an unacceptable insult to freedom of information and expression". A colleague in his cabinet, the

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Bernard Cazeneuve, attempted to allay public concern by stating that France "had already increased its anti-hacking measures to protect against cyber-attacks" since the aforementioned terrorist attacks on January earlier that year, which had left a total of 20 people dead. French investigators later discounted the theory that the attack was connected to ISIL but instead suspected the APT28 or ''Pawn Storm'', a hacking group with alleged links to the Russian government. Investigators concluded that the attack was a test of the same sorts of cyberweaponry that were used to switch off a power station in Ukraine. As a result,

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implemented the Keelback Net cybersensor.

Content

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

from

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, RTS from

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

and the

Radio-Canada Radio-Canada may refer to: * CBC/Radio-Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation *Ici Radio-Canada Télé, the CBC's main French-language television network *Ici Radio-Canada Première Ici Radio-Canada Première (formerly Première Chaîne) i ...

and

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networks in

. In addition to international news, TV5Monde broadcasts

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final,

Six Nations matches, films and music magazines.

Ownership

The number "5" in the name is the number of founding networks: Télévision Française 1 (TF1),

(France 2), FR 3 (France 3), TSR (RTS Un) and

(La Une). The partnership making up the TV5Monde consortium are

Arte France Arte (, , ; ' ('), sometimes stylised in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ( EE ...

, Institut national de l'audiovisuel,

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Télé-Québec The (; ), branded as () (formerly known as ), is a Canadian French-language public educational television network in the province of Quebec. It is a provincial Crown corporation owned by the Government of Quebec. The network's main studios an ...

and RTS. The consortium owns 51% of the service, and the other 49% is owned by

France Médias Monde France Médias Monde () is a French state-owned holding company which supervises and co-ordinates the activities of the major public media organizations International broadcasting, broadcasting or publishing internationally from France. The comp ...

, a holding company that manages France's international broadcasting services. *

: 46.42% *

: 11.97% *

Radio télévision suisse The Radio Télévision Suisse (; "Swiss Radio Television"), shortened to RTS, is a subsidiary of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), operating in French-speaking Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2010 by a merger of Radio Suis ...

(RTS): 10.53% *

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(RTBF): 10.53% *

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(SRC): 6.32% *

: 5.26% *

: 4.21% *

ARTE France Arte (, , ; ' ('), sometimes stylised in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ( EE ...

: 3.12% * Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA): 1.65%

Channels

Nine feeds are being transmitted: *TV5MONDE France Belgique Suisse Monaco (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco,

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and

) *TV5MONDE Europe (rest of Europe) with subtitles in 7 languages: French, English, German, Dutch, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish. *TV5MONDE Afrique (Africa except Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt) *TV5MONDE Maghreb–Orient (

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Middle East The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...

) with occasional Arabic subtitles *TV5MONDE Inde & Pakistan (

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

and

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

) with occasional subtitles in 2 languages: Hindi and Urdu. *TV5MONDE Asie–Pacifique (

Asia Pacific Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

and

Oceania Oceania ( , ) is a region, geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Outside of the English-speaking world, Oceania is generally considered a continent, while Mainland Australia is regarded as its co ...

) *TV5MONDE États-Unis (United States) with occasional English subtitles* *TV5MONDE Amérique Latine & Caraïbes (

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and the

Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...

) with occasional Spanish and Portuguese subtitles *

(Canada)** (*)TV5MONDE États-Unis has certain programs subtitled in English, particularly some newscasts and most movies. It is unusual to watch a French movie without English language subtitles on TV5MONDE États-Unis.
(**)TV5 Québec Canada is produced in

Logos

From 1984, for this television network, there are five different logos. The first logo of television network is used from 1984 to 1988, the second logo is used from 1988 to 1990, the third logo is used from 1990 to 1995, the fourth logo is used from 1995 to 2006, and the fifth and current logo is in use from 2006. From 1991 to 2003, the

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was located on the upper right corner of the screen. From 2003 onwards, it has been moved to the upper left corner of the screen and dropped from upper right corner. Image:TV5 (logo).svg, TV5 logo, 1995–2006. Logo is still in use by TV5 Québec Canada. Image:TV5Monde Logo.svg, TV5MONDE logo, 2006–2021. Image:Logo TV5 Monde - 2021.svg, TV5MONDE logo since 2021.

Network availability

Europe

TV5MONDE FBSM and TV5MONDE Europe are

and can be received by satellite. Additionally: *Croatia: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on digital cable. *Denmark: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on digital cable. *Germany: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on analogue or digital cable. *Greece: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on ERT channel 22, 46. *Ireland: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on

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channel 825 *Israel: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on

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channel 131. *Italy: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on

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channel 540 and on

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Infostrada TV, Tiscali TV and

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on the same channel number and on TV di Fastweb channel 68. *Moldova: TV5Monde Europe is available on terrestrial television and all cable networks. *Netherlands: **TV5MONDE Europe ***

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: Channel 71 (SD) and in HD on TV Française Ziggo App ***

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: Channel 41 (HD), ***

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: Channel 500 (SD) ***

Canal Digitaal CanalDigitaal is a provider of digital television via satellite for the Netherlands, Dutch market, using the SES Astra, Astra satellites at Astra 23.5°E, 23.5° east. Initially customers were mainly Dutch citizens in the countryside who did ...

: Channel 194 (SD) *** Kabel Noord: Channel 160 (SD) ***

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: Channel 421 (HD) **TV5MONDE FBSM ***Canal Digitaal: Channel 195 (HD) *Norway: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on

Canal Digital Canal Digital was a Nordic pay TV and internet service provider in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications operator T ...

channel 152. *Romania: TV5Monde Europe must be offered by all cable and satellite providers as part of the official must-carry list. *Spain: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on

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cable channel 402 and on R channel 201. *Turkey: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on

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channel 102 and Turkish Cable Television. *United Kingdom: TV5MONDE Europe could be found with English

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channel 825; and

via Astra 1L at 19.2°E and Eutelsat

at 13°E. As of 19 January 2019, TV5 Monde has ceased broadcasting to the UK on the Sky and Freesat platform from Astra 2 at 23 E and on EE TV

North America

Neither TV5MONDE nor its supplementary services are free-to-air in

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Canada

TV5 Québec Canada is a

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version of TV5MONDE that offers largely the same programming schedule, but programming from Radio-Canada, which is already available across Canada, is replaced with content from the provincial educational networks

and

TFO TFO is a Canadian French language educational television channel and media organization serving the province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority (OTELFO), a Crown corporation owned by t ...

. As with TV5MONDE, TV5 Québec Canada is also a co-operative effort but involving French Canadian networks and producers through l'Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec. The Canadian license also includes '' Unis'', a channel focused on francophone communities outside Quebec.

United States

In the United States, TV5MONDE États-Unis is one of several foreign-language premium channels offered through

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. Broadcast is in standard definition only. The channel is offered nationwide on

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AT&T U-verse U-verse TV is an internet protocol television (IPTV) service operated by DirecTV. Launched on June 26, 2006, U-verse was originally a triple play package that included broadband Internet (now AT&T Internet or AT&T Fiber), IP telephone (now AT& ...

and Verizon FiOS and offered in most major markets on traditional cable systems such as

Charter Spectrum Spectrum is the trade name of Charter Communications. The name is widely used by both market consumers and commercial businesses. Services that Spectrum offers include cable television, internet access, internet security, managed services, mo ...

Cox Communications Cox Communications, Inc. (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation, Dimension Cable Services and Times-Mirror Cable), is an American digital cable television provider, telecommunications and home automation services comp ...

Xfinity Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, doing business as Xfinity, is an American telecommunications business segment and division of the Comcast Corporation. It is used to market consumer cable television, internet, telephone, and wireless servic ...

and

Bright House Networks Bright House Networks, LLC also simply known as Bright House, was an American telecom company. Prior to its purchase by Charter Communications, it was the tenth-largest multichannel video service provider and the 6th largest cable internet provi ...

. TV5MONDE is offered on cable and satellite as an à la carte selection for $9.99 a month. On most systems, a subscription to another programming tier or a digital cable package may be required. Purportedly because of underfunding, TV5MONDE cannot yet offer accurate advance scheduling or on-time programming, but progress is being made in those fronts. In addition, TV5MONDE États-Unis offers a French-language children's channel, TiVi5MONDE, which offers a selection of children's and young adult programming in French. The channel is currently available on Dish Network, as part of the TV5MONDE subscription. Daily blocks of TiVi5MONDE programming is also seen on the main TV5MONDE channel. TV5MONDE launched TV5MONDE Cinema on Demand, a

video on demand Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films Digital distribution, digitally on request. These multimedia are accessed without a traditional video playback device and a typica ...

service available to Xfinity subscribers in July 2013 that features a selection of francophone films.

Mexico, Central America and Caribbean

In Mexico and most countries of

Central America Central America is a subregion of North America. Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually ...

and the

, TV5MONDE Amérique Latine & Caraïbes is available

SKY México Sky México, a trading name of Corporacion Novavision S. DE R.L. DE C.V., is a company that operates a subscription television service in Mexico, Central America and Dominican Republic. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels. It ...

, a satellite television platform, on Channel 277.

South America

Brazil

In Brazil is transmitted with subtitles in Portuguese on their schedule. Negotiations are currently being held to launch the first original channel productions in the country. TV5MONDE Brésil is available on SKY Brasil on channel 108, Claro TV on channels 204 and 704, Net on channel 141 as well as Vivo TV.

Other countries

TV5MONDE Amérique Latine & Caraïbes is not free-to-air in South America. The channel is available on main pay-TV operators in most Hispanic countries, with programming subtitled in Spanish. In

French Guiana French Guiana, or Guyane in French, is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies. Bordered by Suriname to the west ...

, a French overseas territory in northern South America, the channel is free and broadcast with programming entirely in French.

Asia, Australia and New Zealand

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

Auckland Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

(Everest) and

Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ...

rebroadcasts some news programmes. In Nepal (Everest), TiVi5 Monde is broadcast by

Dish Home DishHome is a DTH and internet service provider in Nepal. Operated by Dish Media Network Ltd, it was formed in 2010 after a merger between two DTH providers, namely Home TV and Dish Nepal. In the year of 2011 Sandmartin International Holding ...

on Channel no D-864. In

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

, the

StarHub TV Star Hub TV is a pay television service provided by StarHub in Singapore. It has been a subsidiary of ''StarHub Limited'' since StarHub acquired ''Singapore Cable Vision'' (SCV) in 2001, and was the sole pay-TV operator in the country until 200 ...

service added the channel on 7 April 1997 and broadcasts it on Channel 152 for its digital service customers. TV5Monde Asie is available in television providers in

Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

. In Australia, multilingual broadcaster SBS broadcasts network news bulletin ''64' Le Monde en français'' every day as part of WorldWatch programming. In India, Zee Network provides the channel for its

DTH services subscribers. Also, many others like

Hathway Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd, formerly BITV Cable Networks, is an Indian cable television and broadband service provider based in Mumbai. It was the first company to provide Internet using the CATV network in India, and the first cable operat ...

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

Fuji Television JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as or , is a Japanese television station that serves the Kantō region as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). The station is owned-and- ...

platform (as TV5MONDE Pacifique though Japan is a part of the Asia) and on

Television New Zealand Television New Zealand (, "Te Reo Tātaki" meaning "The Leading Voice"), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a New Zealand state-owned media company and Crown entity. The company operates a television network, TVNZ+, streaming service, and 1N ...

in New Zealand. In

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

, ISP provider Qrix offers TV5 on its premium HD cable package. TV5Monde is also available in three former French colonies and Now French Speaking Countries Popularity in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) with English and Vietnamese subtitles via PPCTV and Selected Pay TV Providers in Cambodia, VTVCab and Major Pay TV Providers in Vietnam and Laosat TV in Laos.

India

In most of the region, TV5MONDE Inde & Pakistan Zee Network provides the channel for its

DTH services subscribers. Also, many others like

cable TV and local.

Africa

TV5Monde Afrique is widely available across the region. In Mauritius, MBC 15 simulcasts TV5 Monde and MBC 17 simulcasts TiVi5 Monde. In 2025, the High Authority for Communication (HAC) of Mali cuts off broadcasting in Mali.

Middle East and North Africa

In most of the region, TV5MONDE Maghreb-Orient is available on

Nilesat 101 Nilesat 101 is an Egyptian owned geosynchronous communications satellite that was decommissioned in February 2013. Launch Nilesat 101 was launched by an Ariane 4 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on 28 April 1998 at 22:53:00 UTC by Arianespac ...

and Badr 4 under the frequencies of 11900.00 V 27500 3/4 and 12073.00 H 27500 3/4, respectively. In

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

, it is also available on Cablevision, a cable television platform serving the country, and via Tele Liban's French terrestrial channel, Tele Liban Le Neuf.

HD

High-definition (HD) broadcasting of TV5MONDE FBSM started on 1 July 2015 via satellite in the

CanalSat Canal+ is a French subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and subscription TV provider. The TV provider was established as CanalSatellite in 1992 and later rebranding to CanalSat and the streaming service was launched a ...

mux as an upscaled HD feed. In March 2017, the HD feed was changed from upscaled into native HD (1440x1080). TV5MONDE Maghreb-Orient has been broadcast in HD since 10 March 2014 via Badr-4. TV5MONDE Asie has been broadcast in HD in Taiwan since September 2014 and Singapore via StarHub TV since October 2015.

References

External links

Official Site

TV5 Québec Canada

TV5MONDE Asie-Pacifique
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Summary

History

April 2015 cyberattack and resulting disruption

Content

Ownership

Channels

Logos

Network availability

Europe

North America

Canada

United States

Mexico, Central America and Caribbean

South America

Brazil

Other countries

Asia, Australia and New Zealand

India

Africa

Middle East and North Africa

HD

See also

References

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