France Info (TV channel)

After LCI, CNEWS and BFMTV (available on free national DTT), and France 24 (worldwide and in Île-de-France only), France Info is the fifth rolling news channel in France.

The goal of France Info is to distance itself from the competition by focusing heavily on straight news coverage, hoping to offer a higher-quality news service. The channel's music was produced by French composer, Jean-Michel Jarre.

France Info is supported by France Télévisions, in particular France 2 and 3. The channel has 204 employees (176 at France Télévisions, 28 at Radio France), as well as 3,000 journalists distributed among the editorial teams of France 2, France 3 Régions, Réseau Outre-Mer première, Franceinfo, France Inter and France 24. Its total budget is 15 million euros for France Télévisions and 3.5 million euros for Radio France.

It includes the characteristic elements of rolling news channels (live bulletins, distinctive daypart-separated blocks) and debate and analysis programs. The sister radio station provides headline reminders three times each hour at :20, :40 and :50 past (four times an hour at :10, :20, :40 and :50 past between September 2016 and mid-January 2017), France 24 fills in the overnight programming (that would otherwise be filled in by continuous repeats of the day's last live newscast), and Ina offers magazines on "the news seen through a historical eye".

France Info thus becomes a global public-service news offering that brings together radio and television and makes use of the experience of the public service as a whole in terms of information.

This is the first major collaboration between public radio and television since 1975; at that time France Inter supplied the footage in the bulletins of the 3^e chaîne couleur de l'ORTF (now France 3).

Unlike other news channels, France Info can be watched without sound, thanks to some reports being text-heavy. Journalists can explain the stories using an interactive touchscreen. The cameraman moves along with the journalists, with a mobile device accompanied. The tone is mostly offbeat, without forgetting to be serious if required. The presentation - done in a studio integrated directly into the newsroom by an anchorman and/or anchorwoman, serving as both news anchors and segment introducers - as well as the interactivity with the "Le Live" thread seen on the channel's website, are other distinctive differences.

• France 24 - world news in simulcast with France 24
• franceinfo: et tout est plus clair - flagship banner for weekday afternoon and weekend rolling news block
• 6h30:8h30 - breakfast rolling news block with Samuel Étienne and Johanna Ghiglia
• 10h30:13h - morning rolling news block with Louis Laforge and Marianne Théoleyre
• 14h:17h - afternoon rolling news block with Sophie Le Saint
• 17h:19h - evening rolling news block with Djamel Mazi and Lucie Chaumette
• 21h:23h - late night rolling news block before Le 23h
• Le 23h - final bulletin prior to overnight France 24 simulcast, introduced to help replace Soir 3 which previously aired on France 3 with Patricia Loison (Monday-Friday) and Sorya Khaldoun (Saturday and Sunday/Friday(Replacement))
• Le journal - hourly live news bulletins, last 12 minutes
• :l'info - live headlines at :20, :40 and :50 every hour, simulcast with Franceinfo Radio
• l'essentiel de l'info - bottom-of-the-hour headlines between 9am and 6pm
• Les informés de Franceinfo - nightly news debates, simulcast with Franceinfo Radio
• Questions politiques - Sunday political interview, simulcast with France Inter

• Official Site (in French)
• France Télévisions Corporate site (in French)
• Radio France site (in French)
• France Médias Monde site (in French)
• Institut national de l'audiovisuel site (in French)