France 3

France 3 is a regional television channel and French general practitioner of public service, like ITV in Great Britain.

History of the chain

The third chain

the third chain of ORTF (Color 3) emits for the first time the December 31st 1972. Its new chairman Jean-Louis Guillaud decides to largely call upon the regional stations of ORTF and with young realizers. The third chain intends to prove reliable as a new chain of the areas, color, without publicity nor announcer.

For its beginnings, it diffuses only three hours of programs per day, collected by 26% of the population mainly concentrated in North and the Paris region. At the end of the decade, the total cover of the territory will be indeed effective.

France Areas 3 (FR3)

August 7th 1974, the law of reform of audio-visual involving the bursting of ORTF, creates the National company of television program France Areas 3 ( FR3 ), charged to manage and develop the regional centres of radio and television (22 regional stations and 29 radiophonic centers governed by 11 directions). One counts then on the productions of 22 regional stations, equivalent then to 35 minutes of regional television per day.

Starting from the January 6th 1975, FR3 is with the antenna and its chairman, Claude Contamine, decides to direct the chain towards the cinema ( Cinéma of Midnight and Cinéma 16 1976 ), the debates and unhookings regional. March 22nd 1976, regional television becomes daily. In this awakening of regional curiosity, the chain launches the Sets of 20 hours , making it possible the areas to be successively with the national antenna at the time of a duplex between a station and the Parisian studio whose Maître Capello officiates. With this progressive appearance of televisual contents more specifically regional, the State very slowly undertakes the administrative and economic regionalization of the French territory where the regional stations return gradually within this new framework.

October 21st 1981, FR3 retransmet for the first time oral questions sessions of the National Assembly. In January 1983, publicity makes its appearance on the domestic network of FR3. September 5th, twelve regional stations of the chain daily diffuse three hours of their personal programs before 8 p.m. The series river Dynastie unloads on the chain every saturday in 1984. In January 1985, Janine Langlois-Glandier installs every saturday evenings the appointment impossible to circumvent of the children: Disney Channel . The new appointment of local and national information 19/20 starts as of on May 6th 1986 with 19:00. Very the glamor magazine Taxi presented Friday evening by Catherine Belkhodja gains a sharp success.

In 1986, the government of Jacques Chirac proposes the privatization of one of the three public television channels. Initially had a presentiment of, the choice of FR3 is finally abandoned to refer on TF1. CNCL names Rene Han with the direction of the chain in December, which reorientates its national plans towards a more cultural mission: Thalassa passes from the second part of evening to the Friday evening to 20:45, the theater settles at one hour for great listening every Wednesday evenings with 20:45, and Questions for a champion is launched in November 1988. The launching of the Class in 1987 following the 19/20 also makes it possible the chain to preserve its public " France profonde" until the premium-time. In August 1989, in preoccupations with a reinforcement of the audio-visual public vis-a-vis private competition, the SCUMS joins together Antenne 2 and FR3 under a common presidency, in the person of Philippe Guilhaume. Samdynamite replaces Disney Channel in January 1989, then as of on February 3rd 1990, FR3 diffuses the programs of the Seven the 3 p.m. saturdays at midnight. February 4th, the chain opens its antenna the morning with the emissions of Alex Taylor Continentales and Eurojournal .

France 3

The September 7th 1992, FR3 becomes France 3 and forms, with France 2 (ex-Antenna 2), the group France Television.

May 11th 1998, France Telecom and France 3 join for launching on the cable then the satellite TPS the specialized channel Régions (disappeared since).

Between 2000 and 2005, the Fifth, RFO (with RFOsat called from now on France O) then France 4 joined France 2 and France 3 within the public group France Televisions.

With the re-entry 2006, the president of France Televisions, Patrick de Carolis, and its director of the antennas, Patrice Duhamel, installs a new daily cultural emission of second part of evening, This evening (or never!) , presented by Frederic Taddeï since October 2006 in order to mark the cultural turn given to the programs of France 3. Consequently and for the first time since its creation, a fixed hour is given to the evening paper Soir 3 which begins the every day with 23:00 crushes. Its DG is Genevieve Giard today.

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