French TV

[London Lite]

24h Pujadas open on LCI.

https://youtu.be/nv01wz4oqmw

[London Lite]

The sofa has been changed at Franceinfo. It's rarely been used since the pandemic, but wonder if it'll get used during 23h?

[ConorM98]

Also if you watch today's news bulletins from France 2, there's new graphics for the headlines that fall more in line with the opening titles

[AnotherRandomPerson]

I´m not sure if I like the direction franceinfo is going. The new la matinale intro is quite clever but it looks a bit cheap compared to the old one.
The new studio of LCI looks quite fresh. I find it quite interesting that these small fixed cameras are such a big thing in france. Allthough I am not that familiar with french tv, I notice them in many french news studios (just in one shot of LCI´s new studio, I could count seven of these) while I barely see them in other countries.

[London Lite]

I´m not sure if I like the direction franceinfo is going. The new la matinale intro is quite clever but it looks a bit cheap compared to the old one.
The new studio of LCI looks quite fresh. I find it quite interesting that these small fixed cameras are such a big thing in france. Allthough I am not that familiar with french tv, I notice them in many news studios (just in one shot of LCI´s new studio, I could count seven of these) while I barely see them in other countries.

Franceinfo for example uses fixed cameras for the majority of output, with the exception of a steady cam operator who has done more work today than over the last 15-16 months. It reduces costs on the rolling news channels.

I've enjoyed watching LCI today than at any time since I've had access to the channel presentation wise, even if it's now heavily influenced by BFMTV, but it shows how set design is still as important as ever. BFMTV on the other hand is starting to look stale.

[matthieu1221]

I´m not sure if I like the direction franceinfo is going. The new la matinale intro is quite clever but it looks a bit cheap compared to the old one.
The new studio of LCI looks quite fresh. I find it quite interesting that these small fixed cameras are such a big thing in france. Allthough I am not that familiar with french tv, I notice them in many news studios (just in one shot of LCI´s new studio, I could count seven of these) while I barely see them in other countries.

Franceinfo for example uses fixed cameras for the majority of output, with the exception of a steady cam operator who has done more work today than over the last 15-16 months. It reduces costs on the rolling news channels.

I've enjoyed watching LCI today than at any time since I've had access to the channel presentation wise, even if it's now heavily influenced by BFMTV, but it shows how set design is still as important as ever. BFMTV on the other hand is starting to look stale.

And aside from franceinfo's steadycammers, I don't think any other news channel uses camera operators apart from BFMTV's Premiere Edition (for seemingly more dynamic camera angles).

[BBI45]

https://youtu.be/JmEApHCCdBs

[Kunst]

I'm very interested about the France 3 "regionalization" .

In the UK BBC One is harder to localize completely, because that's the main channel

[London Lite]

I'm very interested about the France 3 "regionalization" .

In the UK BBC One is harder to localize completely, because that's the main channel

BBC One is regionalised with network playout and continuity from Salford with the regions able to opt-out for local programming across England, while Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own CAs and playout, but they also opt into the network feed for nationally scheduled programming.

BBC Two is networked across England and Scotland which share the same feed, while there are regional versions with local continuity and playout for Wales and Northern Ireland. Like BBC One, BBC Two Wales/NI also take the national feed for nationally scheduled programming. What was BBC Two Scotland is now BBC Scotland.

ITV is also a regional network using two playout centres in Chiswick and Leeds. Leeds covers the northern ITV regions and Central in the Midlands, while Chiswick covers the southern half of the UK, along with UTV and Channel Television.

STV is an ITV network member, which has playout at Pacific Quay for their two regions, which largely takes a clean feed of ITV.

[Kunst]

Yep, I know how it works in the UK.

But overall, it's harder to make a full localization of BBC One, since it's not just a regional channel, but especially the MAIN British channel.

Something which can't be said completely for France 3, whose main is to be a regional channel first

[London Lite]

Yep, I know how it works in the UK.

But overall, it's harder to make a full localization of BBC One, since it's not just a regional channel, but especially the MAIN British channel.

Something which can't be said completely for France 3, whose main is to be a regional channel first

The major issue for the BBC is that the English regions are SD only and not currently capable of outputting HD from the regional level. This will be rectified next year when the Freeview multiplexes are reconfigured to allow BBC and ITV regions to provide sub regional content, even if only three regions and one sub-opt will output in HD as their galleries are already capable of providing 1080i.

Staffing would be a major issue if all the English regions were staffed to playout national programming. I suspect there will still be a national structure to playout the networked shows on France 3 such as the afternoon game show block and the prime-time drama/films, but it appears France Télévisions will be funding the local teams to playout more regional content.

I don't think France 3 Sat will be going anywhere either. It'll probably be like how BBC One network and London used to playout the split regional headlines and networked weather were done at 7.58pm. There's a video on YouTube somewhere which shows how it was done from the same gallery at Broadcasting House. (Think F3 Sat and F3 Paris IDF instead).

[Roger Darthwell]

Yep, I know how it works in the UK.

But overall, it's harder to make a full localization of BBC One, since it's not just a regional channel, but especially the MAIN British channel.

Something which can't be said completely for France 3, whose main is to be a regional channel first

The major issue for the BBC is that the English regions are SD only and not currently capable of outputting HD from the regional level. This will be rectified next year when the Freeview multiplexes are reconfigured to allow BBC and ITV regions to provide sub regional content, even if only three regions and one sub-opt will output in HD as their galleries are already capable of providing 1080i.

Staffing would be a major issue if all the English regions were staffed to playout national programming. I suspect there will still be a national structure to playout the networked shows on France 3 such as the afternoon game show block and the prime-time drama/films, but it appears France Télévisions will be funding the local teams to playout more regional content.

I don't think France 3 Sat will be going anywhere either. It'll probably be like how BBC One network and London used to playout the split regional headlines and networked weather were done at 7.58pm. There's a video on YouTube somewhere which shows how it was done from the same gallery at Broadcasting House. (Think F3 Sat and F3 Paris IDF instead).

Thank you for this explanation, I was wondering what was going to happen to France 3 Sat, you see given that France 3 is also carried on TV platforms in other countries (such as Switzerland, in Wilmaa, Teleboy and Zattoo) it made me wonder if the national France 3 was going to be kept at least for them, otherwise I would have wondered which region they were going to get instead! BTW BBC One used to have regional continuity in England, up until 1980 when it was axed because of budget cuts

[London Lite]

Yep, I know how it works in the UK.

But overall, it's harder to make a full localization of BBC One, since it's not just a regional channel, but especially the MAIN British channel.

Something which can't be said completely for France 3, whose main is to be a regional channel first

The major issue for the BBC is that the English regions are SD only and not currently capable of outputting HD from the regional level. This will be rectified next year when the Freeview multiplexes are reconfigured to allow BBC and ITV regions to provide sub regional content, even if only three regions and one sub-opt will output in HD as their galleries are already capable of providing 1080i.

Staffing would be a major issue if all the English regions were staffed to playout national programming. I suspect there will still be a national structure to playout the networked shows on France 3 such as the afternoon game show block and the prime-time drama/films, but it appears France Télévisions will be funding the local teams to playout more regional content.

I don't think France 3 Sat will be going anywhere either. It'll probably be like how BBC One network and London used to playout the split regional headlines and networked weather were done at 7.58pm. There's a video on YouTube somewhere which shows how it was done from the same gallery at Broadcasting House. (Think F3 Sat and F3 Paris IDF instead).

Thank you for this explanation, I was wondering what was going to happen to France 3 Sat, you see given that France 3 is also carried on TV platforms in other countries (such as Switzerland, in Wilmaa, Teleboy and Zattoo) it made me wonder if the national France 3 was going to be kept at least for them, otherwise I would have wondered which region they were going to get instead! BTW BBC One used to have regional continuity in England, up until 1980 when it was axed because of budget cuts

France 3 Sat is also used by IPTV providers in France like Free.

MyCanal uses France 3 Sat as the main 1920x1080 stream, but they offer all of the F3 regions in 720p. Molotov and Salto also use F3 Sat.

[Roger Darthwell]

The major issue for the BBC is that the English regions are SD only and not currently capable of outputting HD from the regional level. This will be rectified next year when the Freeview multiplexes are reconfigured to allow BBC and ITV regions to provide sub regional content, even if only three regions and one sub-opt will output in HD as their galleries are already capable of providing 1080i.

Staffing would be a major issue if all the English regions were staffed to playout national programming. I suspect there will still be a national structure to playout the networked shows on France 3 such as the afternoon game show block and the prime-time drama/films, but it appears France Télévisions will be funding the local teams to playout more regional content.

I don't think France 3 Sat will be going anywhere either. It'll probably be like how BBC One network and London used to playout the split regional headlines and networked weather were done at 7.58pm. There's a video on YouTube somewhere which shows how it was done from the same gallery at Broadcasting House. (Think F3 Sat and F3 Paris IDF instead).

Thank you for this explanation, I was wondering what was going to happen to France 3 Sat, you see given that France 3 is also carried on TV platforms in other countries (such as Switzerland, in Wilmaa, Teleboy and Zattoo) it made me wonder if the national France 3 was going to be kept at least for them, otherwise I would have wondered which region they were going to get instead! BTW BBC One used to have regional continuity in England, up until 1980 when it was axed because of budget cuts

France 3 Sat is also used by IPTV providers in France like Free.

MyCanal uses France 3 Sat as the main 1920x1080 stream, but they offer all of the F3 regions in 720p. Molotov and Salto also use F3 Sat.

Brilliant to hear!

[DamC]

The France 3 Sat feed is also used by TNTSAT and Canal+ satellite set-top boxes on LCN 3 during national programming as the 24 regional feeds on Astra 19°2 are SD only. The set-top box switches LCN 3 automatically to the preferred regional feed during regional programming.