During 2010 the France 24 channel started broadcasting through its own iPhone app.Ī networks delivers free television streaming and music streaming to Computer, Smart-TV and mobile devices via a 3G/4G/5G or Wi-Fi connection. The service is aimed at the overseas market and is broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world. Its stated mission is to 'cover international current events from a French perspective and to convey French values throughout the world.' It started broadcasting on 6 December 2006 under the presidency of Jacques Chirac and prime ministerial term of Dominique de Villepin. The current director of France 24 is Vanessa Burggraf.France 24 (pronounced France vingt-quatre on all three editions) is an international news and current affairs television channel based in Paris. The budget is approximately €100 million per year. Since 2008 the channel has been wholly owned by the French government, via its holding company France Médias Monde, having bought out the minority share of the former partners: Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions. The stated mission of the channels is to 'provide a global public service and a common editorial stance'.

It is a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media players. It is aimed at a worldwide market and is generally broadcast by pay television providers around the world, but additionally, in 2010, France 24 began broadcasting online through its own iPhone and Android apps. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, the service started on 6 December 2006.

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