New 24h global news TV channel launches today on the net

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New 24h TV news channel from France in English, French and Arabic

Available on satellite from the Artic to Antarctic - on all 7 continents

Europe
Asia
North America
Latin America
Oceania
Africa
And the Continent of British Isles

On the internet: http://www.france24.com The faster your broadband connection the better the picture you will receive – which means if you live in Ireland it will probably be little better than watching something on youtube.com!

Double-click on the small TV image to make it full screen

If you have a satellite dish pointed at Astra 1, it is available on the “new” KR bird: 11,538 frequency, transponder 22 (free to air).

IPTV is slowly but surely making broadcast TV redundant!


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Victor

How about Australia?!

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Victor wrote:

How about Australia?!

Australia is in Oceania, as is New Zealand and zillions of other places in that region.

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Goodshape

Better suited to News / Media maybe? Interesting stuff anyway, I'll be keeping an eye on it.

Just getting a series of still frames in the video at the moment, is that normal? Audio is coming through no bother.

And I can never get Windows Media Player stuff to work in Firefox

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Goodshape wrote:

Better suited to News / Media maybe? Interesting stuff anyway, I'll be keeping an eye on it.

Just getting a series of still frames in the video at the moment, is that normal? Audio is coming through no bother.

And I can never get Windows Media Player stuff to work in Firefox

If this hasn't to do with politics - I don't know what has!

I'm getting a perfect TV like picture on an 8 Mbits/sec internet connection (with lots of bandwidth to spare for other applications). I'm not in Ireland (or France) at the moment.

And I'm using Firefox. Fire your ISP!

Ireland's decrepit infrastructure never seems to amaze me...

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Goodshape

Well, it's not exclusivly politics based, where as it is exclusivly a News / Media entity.

Although I do read here (wikipedia) that it's backed by the French government.

Wikipedia wrote:

The French government hopes that France 24 will be able to counter the Anglophone sphere of influence of the BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera, which grew in importance with the Iraq war.

Interesting.

oscarBravo

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If this hasn't to do with politics - I don't know what has!

It has a relevance to Politics, but much more so to News/Media. Ergo, I've moved and left a redirect.

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It seems to me that it is an attempt to counteract the “war on terrorism” agenda and similar bile pumped out in large quantities by the Anglo Saxon Global Domination media – CNN, SkyNews, BBC World and similar.

Much the same as Al Jazeerah English language services. Only this has a European perspective and is available globally on IP TV to everyone who has a half-decent internet connection. It is also helping to make up for the inadequacies of the EU’s feeble Euronews channel.

It was founded by Mayor of Caen, who started up the Canal+ network over 25 years ago.

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Andrew 83

It's going to be on Sky Digital from this evening onwards.

Victor

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Australia is in Oceania, as is New Zealand and zillions of other places in that region.

Ooops, Antartica then? And since when is Latin America a continent?