French television network
This article is about the European TV network. For the related French-Canadian TV channel, see
TV5 Quebec Canada
. For the kids channel, see
TiVi5 Monde
.
Television channel
TV5Monde
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Country
| France
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Broadcast area
| Worldwide
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Headquarters
| Paris
, France
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Language(s)
| French
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Picture format
| 1080i
16:9
HDTV
(
SECAM
/
PAL
/
NTSC
)
(downscaled to
576i
for the
SDTV
feed)
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Owner
| France Televisions
: 46.42%
France Medias Monde
: 11.97%
Radio television suisse
(RTS): 10.53%
Radio-television belge de la Communaute francaise
(RTBF): 10.53%
CBC/Radio-Canada
(SRC): 6.32%
TVMonaco
: 5.26%
Tele-Quebec
: 4.21%
ARTE France
: 3.12%
Institut national de l'audiovisuel
(INA): 1.65%
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Parent
| TV5Monde, S.A.
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Sister channels
| TV5 Monde Style
,
TiVi5 Monde
, TV5Monde Info,
TV5 Quebec Canada
,
Unis
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Launched
| 2 January 1984
; 40 years ago
(
1984-01-02
)
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Former names
| TV5
(1984?1989, 1993?2006)
TV5 Europe
(1989?1993)
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Website
| www
.tv5monde
.com
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Analogue television
| in
Kinshasa
,
Pointe-Noire
,
Mauritania
,
Cape Verde
,
Mauritius
and
Seychelles
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Digital terrestrial television
(Greece)
| ERT B
only in
Athens
and
Thessaloniki
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Virgin Media
(UK)
| Channel 825 (TV5Monde Europe)
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DStv
(Sub-Saharan Africa)
| Channel 435 (TV5Monde Afrique)
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StarTimes
| Channel 639 (TV5Monde Afrique)
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Zuku TV (Kenya)
| Channel 814 (TV5Monde Afrique) (Zuku Fiber only)
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Ziggo GO
(
Netherlands
)
| ZiggoGO.tv
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Sling TV
| Internet Protocol television
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TV5Monde
(
French pronunciation:
[te
ve
s??k
m??d]
), formerly known as
TV5
, is a French
public television
network, broadcasting several channels of
French-language
programming. It is an approved participant member of the
European Broadcasting Union
.
[1]
The network is available across Europe on
satellite
via
Astra 19.2°E
and
Eutelsat
Hot Bird
(13°E) (both
free-to-air
), online and via
TVPlayer
.
Summary
[
edit
]
TV5 started on 2 January 1984 and was under the management of
Serge Adda
until his death in November 2004. The next director since 6 April 2005 was
Jean-Jacques Aillagon
, a former
French Minister for Culture and Communication
. The director-general is now Marie-Christine Saragosse.
In January 2006, TV5 underwent a major overhaul, including rebranding as "TV5Monde" to stress its focus as a global network ("Monde" is French for "World"). Also, the changes included a new schedule and a new program line-up. Since 1993, "TV5 Monde" is part of the channel's corporate name. Its Canadian operations are branded "TV5 Quebec Canada", but the shorter version TV5 is also used.
History
[
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]
TV5 was formed on 2 January 1984, under the guidance of
Claude Cheysson
, the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs
, and TV5 President
Serge Adda
, by five public television channels:
TF1
,
Antenne 2
and
FR3
from
France
, the
Swiss
Television Suisse Romande
and the
Belgian
RTBF
. The "5" from the name TV5 comes from the five public broadcasters. On 18 December 1985, TV5 was amongst the first four channels carried by cable television in France, inaugurated in
Cergy-Pontoise
.
Following its privatisation in 1987, TF1 retired from the TV5 consortium but continued to supply its programmes to the channel until 1995. On 1 September 1988,
TV5 Quebec Canada
was created, followed by TV5 Afrique in 1991. The following year, TV5 transmitted using digital compression towards Latin America and the Caribbean. Its coverage was expanded in 1996 with the launch of its Asian-Pacific signal with TV5 Asie-Pacifique and the subscription channel TV5 Etats-Unis in the United States. Two years later, the Middle East feed was launched with TV5 Moyen-Orient in 1998.
In early 1999, TV5 split its European signal into two, with the launch of TV5 France Belgique Suisse, a signal specific to
Francophone
Europe (France, Belgium, Switzerland,
Monaco
,
Luxembourg
etc.). TV5 Europe continued to serve the wider continental audience.
A consortium formed by public channels
Arte
and
La Cinquieme
entered into the capital of the channel, which brought with it new sources of programming. A new schedule was constructed, centred on news programmes such as news flashes on the hour, two TV5 bulletins and rebroadcasts of its partners' main news programmes (
20 Heures
from France 2,
Soir 3
from France 3,
Le Journal
from TSR/RTS and
13 Heures
from RTBF).
A meeting with ministers from TV5 in
Vevey
, Switzerland, gave a mandate to the channel's council of co-operation to reform the structure of the channel in the view of creating a unique worldwide channel. The national governments in charge of the five participants gave an agreement to turn management of TV5 Etats-Unis and TV5 Amerique Latine over to TV5 Monde, the new name for the channel's head operations in Paris.
From the
September 11 attacks
in 2001 to the
2003 Iraq War
, the media coverage put the spotlight on TV5's particular way of broadcasting news bulletins from its member public broadcasters. International conflicts arising from the decision to go to war by the United States and the United Kingdom in which France notably refused to participate had relaunched the debate over whether to create an international news channel from a French perspective, resulting in the 2006 launch of
France 24
.
With the creation of France 24 placing TV5's own existence in doubt, its new CEO,
Jean-Jacques Aillagon
decided from 1 January 2006 to rename the channel to
TV5Monde
to underline its status better as the only international
Francophone
channel available on-air (France 24 was then available only in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the United States cities of New York and Washington, DC, in French). Aillagon stepped down from his post on 3 March 2006.
The name TV5Monde applies only to its eight different signals, broadcast from its Paris headquarters. In
Canada
, such as in French-speaking
Quebec
, TV5 Quebec Canada is managed from
Montreal
, which keeps the original name
TV5
, as it is operated by an independent company that is distinct from TV5Monde. As well as being part of the TV5 family, TV5 Quebec Canada has its own management and its schedule is made with the Canadian viewer in mind and to conform to Canadian broadcast regulations, which, sets domestic production quotas and limits foreign investors to a minority stake.
In 2007, a new programme schedule saw the reduction of programming from
France Televisions
(France 2, 3 and 5), for example, ti one daily news bulletin from France 2 by abandoning France 3's midday news programme. In 2008, TV5Monde became part of holding company France Monde.
In 2009, TV5Monde split its Asia-Pacific signal into two, one of them being TV5Monde Asie, a feed for territories located between GMT+8 (Hong Kong) and GMT+12 (New Zealand). TV5Monde's Pacific signal is an adaptation of its existing Asian signal that has been adopted to its time zones to serve its viewers better. It currently broadcasts in Oceania and, despite the signal's name, in Japan, South Korea and South East Asia.
On 25 February 2015, the new signal TV5Monde Bresil was launched broadcasting its programming with
Portuguese
subtitles.
[2]
Monaco
was announced to be joining the service with its public service broadcaster,
TVMonaco
(formerly called Monte-Carlo Riviera TV before its launch), from 1 September 2023.
[3]
[4]
[5]
April 2015 cyberattack and resulting disruption
[
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]
On the evening of 8 April 2015, TV5Monde was the victim of a
cyberattack
by a hacker group known as "CyberCaliphate", which claimed to have ties to the terrorist organization
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL). The hackers breached the broadcaster's internal systems in what Director Yves Bigot described as an "unprecedented" attack, overriding TV5Monde's
broadcast
programming for over three hours, with service only partially restored in the early hours of the following morning.
[6]
Normal broadcasting services were still disrupted late into 9 April.
[6]
Various computerised internal administrative and support systems including e-mail were also still shut down or otherwise inaccessible because of the attack.
[6]
[7]
The hackers also hijacked TV5Monde's
Facebook
and
Twitter
pages to
post the personal information of
relatives of French soldiers participating in actions against the organization, along with messages critical of President
Francois Hollande
arguing that the
January 2015 terrorist attacks
were "gifts" for his "unforgivable mistake" of partaking in conflicts that "[serve] no purpose".
[6]
[8]
As part of the official response to the attack, the
French Minister of Culture and Communications
,
Fleur Pellerin
, called for an emergency meeting of the heads of various major media outlets and groups. The meeting took place on 10 April at an undisclosed location.
[7]
French Prime Minister
Manuel Valls
called the attack "an unacceptable insult to freedom of information and expression".
[7]
A colleague in his cabinet, the
Interior Minister
Bernard Cazeneuve
, attempted to allay public concern by stating that France "had already increased its anti-hacking measures to protect against cyber-attacks" since the aforementioned terrorist attacks on January earlier that year, which had left a total of 20 people dead.
[7]
French investigators later discounted the theory that the attack was connected to ISIL but instead suspected the
APT28
or
Pawn Storm
, a hacking group with alleged links to the Russian government.
[9]
[10]
Investigators concluded that the attack was a test of the same sorts of cyberweaponry that were used to switch off a power station in Ukraine.
[11]
As a result,
Airbus Defence and Space
implemented the Keelback Net cybersensor.
[12]
Content
[
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Most of its content is taken from mainstream networks in
the French-speaking world
, notably
France Televisions
from
France
,
TVMonaco
from
Monaco
,
RTBF
from
Belgium
,
RTS
from
Switzerland
and the
Radio-Canada
and
TVA
networks in
Canada
. In addition to international news, TV5Monde broadcasts
Ligue 1
,
Coupe de France
final,
France
Six Nations
matches, films and music magazines.
Ownership
[
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]
The number "5" in the name is the number of founding networks:
Television Francaise 1
(TF1),
Antenne 2
(France 2),
FR 3
(France 3),
TSR
(RTS Un) and
RTBF
(La Une). The partnership making up the TV5Monde consortium are
France Televisions
,
Arte France
,
Institut national de l'audiovisuel
,
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
,
TVMonaco
,
Tele-Quebec
,
RTBF
and
RTS
. The consortium owns 51% of the service, and the other 49% is owned by
France Medias Monde
, a holding company that manages France's international broadcasting services.
[13]
Channels
[
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]
Eight feeds are being transmitted:
- TV5MONDE France Belgique Suisse Monaco
(France, Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco,
Andorra
and
Luxembourg
)
- TV5MONDE Europe
(rest of Europe) with subtitles in 7 languages: French, English, German, Dutch, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.
- TV5MONDE Afrique
(Africa except Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt)
- TV5MONDE Maghreb?Orient
(
Maghreb
,
Middle East
) with occasional Arabic subtitles
- TV5MONDE Asie?Pacifique
(
Asia Pacific
and
Oceania
)
- TV5MONDE Etats-Unis
(United States) with occasional English subtitles*
- TV5MONDE Amerique Latine & Caraibes
(
Latin America
and the
Caribbean
) with occasional Spanish and Portuguese subtitles
- TV5 Quebec Canada
(Canada)**
(*)TV5MONDE Etats-Unis has certain programs subtitled in English, particularly some newscasts and most movies. It is unusual to watch a French movie without English language subtitles on TV5MONDE Etats-Unis.
(**)TV5 Quebec Canada is produced in
Montreal
.
Logos
[
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]
From 1984, for this television network, there are five different logos. The first logo of television network is used from 1984 to 1988, the second logo is used from 1988 to 1990, the third logo is used from 1990 to 1995, the fourth logo is used from 1995 to 2006, and the fifth and current logo is in use from 2006.
From 1991 to 2003, the
digital on-screen graphic
was located on the upper right corner of the screen. From 2003 onwards, it has been moved to the upper left corner of the screen and dropped from upper right corner.
-
TV5 logo, 1995?2006. Logo is still in use by TV5 Quebec Canada.
-
TV5MONDE logo, 2006?2021.
-
TV5MONDE logo since 2021.
Network availability
[
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]
Europe
[
edit
]
TV5MONDE FBSM and TV5MONDE Europe are
free-to-air
and can be received by satellite. Additionally:
- Croatia: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on digital cable.
- Denmark: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on digital cable.
- Germany: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on analogue or digital cable.
- Greece: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on
ERT
channel 22, 46.
- Ireland: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on
Virgin Media Ireland
channel 825
- Israel: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on
Yes
channel 131.
- Italy: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on
SKY Italia
channel 540 and on
IPTV
Infostrada TV
,
Tiscali TV
and
Alice Home TV
on the same channel number and on
TV di FASTWEB
channel 68.
- Netherlands:
- TV5MONDE Europe
- TV5MONDE FBSM
- Canal Digitaal: Channel 195 (HD)
- Norway: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on
Canal Digital
channel 152.
- Romania: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on
Dolce
channel 116. On UPC Romania in digital, it is available on channel 721, on mediabox or LCN.
- Spain: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on
ONO (Spain)
cable channel 402 and on
R
channel 201.
- Turkey: TV5MONDE Europe can be found on
Digiturk
channel 102 and Turkish Cable Television.
- United Kingdom: TV5MONDE Europe could be found with English
subtitles
on
Virgin Media
cable
channel 825; and
free-to-air
satellite
via
Astra 1L at 19.2°E
and Eutelsat
Hot Bird
at 13°E. As of 19 January 2019, TV5 Monde has ceased broadcasting to the UK on the Sky and Freesat platform from Astra 2 at 23 E and on EE TV
North America
[
edit
]
Neither TV5MONDE nor its supplementary services are free-to-air in
North America
.
Canada
[
edit
]
TV5 Quebec Canada is a
French Canadian
version of TV5MONDE that offers largely the same programming schedule, but programming from Radio-Canada, which is already available across Canada, is replaced with content from the provincial educational networks
Tele-Quebec
and
TFO
. As with TV5MONDE, TV5 Quebec Canada is also a co-operative effort but involving French Canadian networks and producers through l'Association des producteurs de films et de television du Quebec. The Canadian license also includes
Unis
, a channel focused on francophone communities outside Quebec.
United States
[
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]
In the United States,
TV5MONDE Etats-Unis
is one of several foreign-language premium channels offered through
International Media Distribution
. Broadcast is in standard definition only. The channel is offered nationwide on
Dish Network
,
AT&T U-verse
and
Verizon FiOS
and offered in most major markets on traditional cable systems such as
Charter Spectrum
,
Cox Communications
,
Xfinity
and
Bright House Networks
. TV5MONDE is offered on cable and satellite as an a la carte selection for $9.99 a month. On most systems, a subscription to another programming tier or a digital cable package may be required. Purportedly because of underfunding, TV5MONDE cannot yet offer accurate advance scheduling or on-time programming, but progress is being made in those fronts.
In addition, TV5MONDE Etats-Unis offers a French-language children's channel,
TiVi5MONDE
, which offers a selection of children's and young adult programming in French. The channel is currently available on Dish Network, as part of the TV5MONDE subscription. Daily blocks of TiVi5MONDE programming is also seen on the main TV5MONDE channel.
[14]
TV5MONDE launched
TV5MONDE Cinema on Demand
, a
video on demand
service available to Xfinity subscribers in July 2013 that features a selection of francophone films.
[15]
Mexico, Central America and Caribbean
[
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]
In Mexico and most countries of
Central America
and the
Caribbean
, TV5MONDE Amerique Latine & Caraibes is available
SKY Mexico
, a satellite television platform, on Channel 277.
South America
[
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]
Brazil
[
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]
In Brazil is transmitted with subtitles in Portuguese on their schedule. Negotiations are currently being held to launch the first original channel productions in the country. TV5MONDE Bresil is available on SKY Brasil on channel 108, Claro TV on channels 204 and 704, Net on channel 141 as well as Vivo TV.
Other countries
[
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]
TV5MONDE Amerique Latine & Caraibes is not free-to-air in South America. The channel is available on main pay-TV operators in most Hispanic countries, with programming subtitled in Spanish.
In
French Guiana
, a French overseas territory in northern South America, the channel is free and broadcast with programming entirely in French.
Asia, Australia and New Zealand
[
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]
The channel is free to air from the AsiaSat 3S satellite, covering most of Asia and Australia.
Triangle TV
in
Auckland
,
Nepal
(Everest) and
Wellington
rebroadcasts some news programmes. In
Nepal (Everest)
, TiVi5 Monde is broadcast by
Dish Home
on Channel no D-864. In
Singapore
, the
StarHub TV
service added the channel on 7 April 1997
[16]
and broadcasts it on Channel 152 for its digital service customers. TV5Monde Asie is available in television providers in
Bangladesh
.
[17]
In Australia, multilingual broadcaster
SBS
broadcasts network news bulletin
64' Le Monde en francais
every day as part of
WorldWatch
programming.
In India,
Zee Network
provides the channel for its
Dish Network
DTH services subscribers. Also, many others like
Hathway
cable TV and local cable TV operators offer TV5Monde free of cost. The channel is also available in Japan on the
Fuji Television
platform (as TV5MONDE Pacifique though Japan is a part of the Asia) and on
Television New Zealand
in New Zealand.
In
South Korea
, ISP provider Qrix offers TV5 on its premium HD cable package.
TV5Monde is also available in three former French colonies and Now French Speaking Countries Popularity in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) with English and Vietnamese subtitles via PPCTV and Selected Pay TV Providers in Cambodia, VTVCab and Major Pay TV Providers in Vietnam and Laosat TV in Laos.
Middle East and North Africa
[
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]
In most of the region, TV5MONDE Maghreb-Orient is available on
Nilesat 101
and
Badr 4
under the frequencies of 11900.00 V 27500 3/4 and 12073.00 H 27500 3/4, respectively. In
Lebanon
, it is also available on Cablevision, a cable television platform serving the country, and via Tele Liban's French channel, Tele Liban Le Neuf.
High-definition
(HD) broadcasting of TV5MONDE FBSM started on 1 July 2015 via satellite in the
CanalSat
mux as an upscaled HD feed. In March 2017, the HD feed was changed from upscaled into native HD (1440x1080).
TV5MONDE Maghreb-Orient has been broadcast in HD since 10 March 2014 via Badr-4.
TV5MONDE Asie has been broadcast in HD in Taiwan since September 2014 and Singapore via StarHub TV since October 2015.
See also
[
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]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
"TV5MONDE"
.
EBU
. Archived from
the original
on 12 December 2013
. Retrieved
7 June
2011
.
- ^
"TV5Monde in Brazil"
. 25 February 2015.
Archived
from the original on 3 March 2016
. Retrieved
27 February
2015
.
- ^
"Switzerland gives green light for Monaco to join TV5 Monde"
. 27 October 2021.
Archived
from the original on 9 November 2021
. Retrieved
9 November
2021
.
- ^
"Monte-Carlo Riviera TV officially joins TV5 Monde"
. 13 December 2021.
Archived
from the original on 29 December 2021
. Retrieved
29 December
2021
.
- ^
"La future chaine de television s'appellera finalement TVMONACO"
(in French).
Monaco Matin
. 23 March 2023
. Retrieved
15 April
2022
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
"Isil hackers seize control of France's TV5Monde network in 'unprecedented' attack"
.
Daily Telegraph
. 9 April 2015.
Archived
from the original on 12 January 2022
. Retrieved
10 April
2015
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
"French media groups to hold emergency meeting after Isis cyber-attack"
.
Guardian (online edition)
. 9 April 2015.
Archived
from the original on 10 April 2015
. Retrieved
10 April
2015
.
- ^
"French TV network TV5Monde 'hacked by cyber caliphate in unprecedented attack' that revealed personal details of French soldiers"
.
The Independent
. 9 April 2015.
Archived
from the original on 25 September 2015
. Retrieved
9 April
2015
.
- ^
Troianovski, Anton
;
Nakashima, Ellen
; Harris, Shane; Abbakumova, Natalia (28 December 2018).
"How Russia's military intelligence agency became the covert muscle in Putin's duels with the West"
.
The Washington Post
. Moscow.
Archived
from the original on 29 December 2018.
Unit 54777 also is thought by Western intelligence to work with other psy-ops and cyber units, such as the CyberCaliphate, a hacking outfit passing itself off as supporters of the Islamic State but really part of the same GRU unit that would penetrate the Democrats' networks in 2016 [...] In April 2015, the CyberCaliphate, again claiming to be Islamic State supporters, took France's TV5Monde off the air for 18 hours.
- ^
"France probes Russian lead in TV5Monde hacking: sources"
.
Reuters
. 10 June 2015.
Archived
from the original on 19 January 2016
. Retrieved
9 July
2015
.
- ^
Corera, Gordon (10 October 2016).
"How France's TV5 was almost destroyed by 'Russian hackers'
"
.
BBC News
.
Archived
from the original on 15 March 2018
. Retrieved
16 October
2016
.
- ^
"Airbus Defence and Space to provide cyber security services for TV5MONDE"
.
Airbus
. 9 December 2015.
Archived
from the original on 24 February 2019
. Retrieved
23 February
2019
.
- ^
"Actionnariat"
(PDF)
.
www.tv5monde.com
.
Archived
(PDF)
from the original on 28 February 2022
. Retrieved
12 June
2022
.
- ^
"TV5MONDE : What's on TiVi5MONDE?"
.
TV5MONDE
.
Archived
from the original on 8 August 2012
. Retrieved
30 January
2021
.
- ^
"TV5MONDECinema USA"
.
www.facebook.com
.
Archived
from the original on 14 April 2022
. Retrieved
30 January
2021
.
- ^
"Cable TV offers 24-hour French channel"
.
The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB)
. 8 April 1997
. Retrieved
30 August
2023
.
- ^
????????????? ?????? ??????? ??????????? ???????
.
Dhaka Tribune
(in Bengali). 5 October 2021
. Retrieved
30 June
2022
.
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]
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.
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