| Soir 3 | |
|---|---|
 Former Soir 3 titles from October 2010, also formerly used as a weekend edition title from March 2013 - January 2018 | |
| Genre | News programme |
| Presented by | Patricia Loison and Louis Laforge (Mon-Thu), Francis Letellier (Fri-Sun) |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original language | French |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (Mon-Thu) Varies typically from 20–30 minutes (Fri-Sun) |
| Original release | |
| Network | France 3 |
| Release | 1978 – 2019 |
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Soir 3 (literally Evening 3) was the late-night newscast of the French public television network France 3. The program, FR3's first national news bulletin, was launched in 1978 by its then head of news Jean-Marie Cavada.[1] The bulletin was shown at 10:30 pm for 60 minutes from Monday to Thursday, and was presented by Louis Laforge and Patricia Loison. The weekend editions, simply known as Soir 3 was broadcast at various times on Fridays and at weekends, when the regular anchor was Francis Letellier.
The newscast was axed in a cost-cutting move in 2019 with a single-anchor replacement, "Le 23h", broadcast instead on the Franceinfo channel.[2]
- ^ "L'histoire du Soir 3" (in French). France 3. Archived from the original on 11 July 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
- ^ Gallic, Yann (26 August 2019). "Télévision : le Soir 3 disparaît des écrans". www.franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 8 January 2020.