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| Country | France |
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| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Groupe Canal+ |
| Sister channels | Canal+ C8 CStar |
| History | |
| Launched | 4 November 1999 |
| Founder | Christian Dutoit |
| Former names | i>Télévision (1999–2002) i>Télé (2002–2017) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| TNT | Channel 16 |
| Streaming media | |
| Official website | Watch live (in French) |
CNews (French pronunciation: [senjuz]; stylised as CNEWS, formerly i>Télé) is a French free-to-air opinion channel[1][2][3] launched on 4 November 1999 by Groupe Canal+. It provides 24-hour national and global news coverage. It is the second most watched news network in France, after BFM TV and before LCI and France Info.
i>Télé was renamed CNews on 27 February 2017. Since this change, it has taken a conservative editorial stance,[4][5][6] and is often compared to the American TV channel Fox News.[7] It has been many times warned by French regulators (ARCOM) for its failure to honestly and rigorously report news to the public or even for illegal and reprehensible speeches. Due to these infractions, it was fined €200,000 by the French audiovisual regulatory body in 2021.[8]
Despite the channel often and obviously violating the audiovisual laws and agreements for broadcasting on the free-to-air TV, it has so far never been really worried by the French authority of regulation.[9][10][11]
The channel is under the control of the media proprietor and business magnate Vincent Bolloré, who has been accused of interfering with the editorial choices of the CNews.[12]
- ^ "Le Conseil d'Etat ordonne à l'Arcom de réexaminer le respect par CNews de ses obligations en matière de pluralisme". Le Monde.fr (in French). 13 February 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "CNews, une chaîne d'opinion sur une fréquence publique - Stratégies". www.strategies.fr (in French). 31 January 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Des journalistes de CNews dénoncent anonymement "la fabrique quotidienne de la haine" sur la chaîne". www.laprovence.com (in French). 3 April 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ Dalton, Matthew (24 October 2021). "French Nationalist TV Host Éric Zemmour, Inspired by Trump, Surges in Polls". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ^ Onishi, Norimitsu (14 September 2021). "A Fox-Style News Network Rides a Wave of Discontent in France". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ^ Amiel, Sandrine (30 November 2021). "France election: Who is Eric Zemmour and why is he so controversial?". euronews. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ^ Labarre, Julien (16 January 2024). "French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship". Journal of Information Technology & Politics: 1–18. doi:10.1080/19331681.2023.2300845. ISSN 1933-1681.
- ^ Dassonville, Aude (20 May 2022). "CNews mise en demeure pour manquement à l'obligation d'honnêteté et de rigueur de l'information". Le Monde (in French).
- ^ "Reporters sans frontières saisit le Conseil d'Etat contre l'inaction de l'Arcom envers CNews" (in French). 14 April 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
- ^ "CNEWS, un média d'opinion au service de l'extrême droite française". Middle East Eye édition française (in French). Retrieved 21 September 2024.
- ^ "C8 perd sa fréquence télé, mais pas CNews". Le HuffPost (in French). 24 July 2024. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
- ^ Marceau Taburet (16 February 2022). ""Stop Bolloré": un collectif dénonce l'empire médiatique "réactionnaire" du milliardaire" [Stop Bolloré: a group denounced the media empire of the billionaire as reactionary]. Libération (in French). Retrieved 1 July 2022.