France's first round-the-clock international news TV network goes to air this week, pushing a French viewpoint to counter rivals CNN and BBC.
France 24 will launch its main parallel French
and mostly English channels after first doing an Internet streaming late on Wednesday, with TV kicking off on cable and satellite on December 7.
"We are positioning ourselves as an
international channel equipped with a French eye," says Gregoire Deniau, France 24's editorial director. "We have an approach which is more distanced and closer to the south than the other
international news channels."
Although the France 24 Web site will be trilingual in French, English and Arabic from the outset, television programming in Arabic will begin in
mid-2007, with Spanish set to follow in 2009.
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