TC: FRENCH CHANNEL TO CHALLENGE 'ANGLO-SAXON' CNN, BBC

[blackhorse]

FRENCH NEWS CHANNEL TO CHALLENGE 'ANGLO-SAXON' CNN, BBC: BOSS

PARIS, Oct 31, 2006 (AFP) - A round-the-clock international news channel France is to launch in December will challenge the "Anglo-Saxon" views spread by market leaders BBC and CNN by relying on "French values", the network's chief said Tuesday.

France 24, as the network is called, will start broadcasting in English and French on the Internet on December 6 and then via satellite two days later, its chairman and chief executive, Alain de Pouzilhac, told Le Figaro newspaper.

Like its British and US rivals, it is homing in on "opinion leaders" around the world by dishing up a diet of news, features and discussion.

But those viewers, Pouzilhac claimed, have become increasingly "sceptical of the world vision offered by the Anglo-Saxons like BBC World and CNN International."

http://www.ttc.org/200610311158.k9vbwap25106.htm

[xchrom]

1. now that's what i call GOOD news.

[BootinUp]

2. should be interesting. eom

[Vidar]

3. Good.

[blackhorse]

4. Yes,

... I also think it will be good to have other viewpoints in English.

BH

[bigworld]

6. Hopefully they hire Melissa Theuriau.....

Ratings and other things would rise quickly.

[wreckhead]

13. ...i agree

Imagine that sight at 7am!

Here's hoping both your wish comes true and my hope that the channel will be carried in the UK!

[BreweryYardRat]

14. Ditto.

Pretty. Not drop-dead gorgeous, but a little better than the average TV anchor.

[confludemocrat]

5. I'll be watching.

TV5 is in French only, but their coverage is clearly different, with none of the grade-school level assumptions, presumptions and general bullshit of the fundamental rightness of every thing the U.S.A. does, which permeates U.S. TV news coverage.

[bigworld]

7. Nice logo & graphics

http://france24.com/

scarily empty webpage.

[bikebloke]

8. Where to find them

Here's the URL, when they're up and running:

http://www.francs24.fr

Right now, there's a fancy Flash screen, that takes forever to load over a phone line.

[Taverner]

9. Hmm...a change from thinly-veiled Anglo racism to snarky french racism

You say tomato...I say tomato...

[Recursion]

15. And I say pomme de terre

(yes, I know that's "potato" but "tomate" just looks like a typo...)

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Their English broadcasts might have an impact

The French ones won't. Irony isn't dead.

[Stella_Artois]

12. Too true

n/t

[bananas]

11. Will conservatives call it "The Freedom Channel" ?

Maybe we should call it that...

[Bassic]

16. As a French-Canadian I say Groovy

WE already have 2 news channels in Québec, but having an international one with a different perspective is going to be cool.