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Official website (https://www.france.tv/france-4/)
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Broadcast area
- France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany
- Headquarters
- Paris , France
- Language
- French
- Picture format
- 1080i HDTV , (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed)
- Parent
- France Télévisions
- Sister channels
- France 2 , France 3 , France 5 , France Info
- Launched
- 31 March 2005 ; 21 years ago ( 2005-03-31 )
- Replaced
- Festival (1996–2005)
- Website
- www .france .tv /france-4
- Tnt
- Channel 4
- Tnt in overseas france
- Channel 4 or 5 or 6
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
France 4 - émissions et séries en replay | France TV
Retrouvez toutes les vidéos et replay des programmes France 4 sur france.tv
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Encyclopedic overview
France 4 ( pronounced [fʁɑ̃s katʁ]) is a French free-to-air public television channel. Owned by France Télévisions, the channel is divided into two strands, with children's and family programming under the Okoo [fr] strand airing around 05:00 to 21:00 daily, and arts programming from 21:00 to 05:00 nightly.
The channel has its origins in Festival, a satellite channel established by France Télévision in 1996 to carry arts and cultural programming. With the launch of France's digital terrestrial television platform TNT on 31 March 2005, Festival was re-launched as a free-to-air channel known as France 4. While it was officially France Télévisions' eighth channel, the "France 4" branding was aligned with its placement on TNT channel 14; it was moved to channel 4 on 6 June 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “France 4” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.