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France has several hundred television networks. The first networks were the state channels of the public authorities RDF (1944-1949) then RTF (1949-1964) then ORTF (1964-1974). The opening to new private channels from 1984 and the privatisation of TF1 in 1987 allowed the establishment of real competition, after the free radios had appeared in 1981.

Until the arrival of digital terrestrial television, in 2005, only 6 national television networks were available on terrestrial television. Since the late 1980s several national television networks have been created (some have disappeared, others are still active), but these were only available on cable and/or satellite television. The advent of digital terrestrial television has significantly modified (and expanded) the French audiovisual panorama, at 2017 there are 32 national television networks spread on terrestrial television, to which are added about one hundred national television networks spread via satellite and/or via IP, for the Italian language of Mediaset and RAI.

On 1 January 2016, the number of television services owned by a convention or benefiting from the declaratory regime are 268, of which 184 television services agreed and 84 television services declared.

History

Thirty Years
April 1931: First public demonstration of television organized by René Barthélémy at the École supérieure d'électricité.
January 1935: first issue in 60 lines from the Ecole nationale supérieure des postes et télégraphes to the Eiffel Tower.
April 1935: the birth of television at the Ministère des postes, télégraphes et téléphones: the first television studio and the beginning of the regular broadcasts of the first radio-PTT vision network with René Barthélémy in 180 lines.
January 1937: first live television reportage on the occasion of the 1937 Universal Exhibition in Paris.
July 1937: Radio-PTT Vision changes its name and becomes Radiodiffusion nationale Télévision, which will disappear on 3 September 1939.
July 1939: creation of the Radiodiffusion nationale (RN), public body responsible for the audiovisual public service.

Forty years
May 1943: creation of Fernsehsender Paris, by the German occupation and active until 12 August 1944.
April 1944: creation of a Commissioner for Information by the Comité français de libération nationale (CFLN).
October 1944: creation of the RDF Télévision française (RDF), commonly called Télévision française, active until February 8, 1949.
March 1945: the creation of the state monopoly of the public broadcasting service: Radiodiffusion française (RDF) replacing Radiodiffusion nationale.
December 1946: first weather newspaper.
December 1946: television is issued every day.
October 1947: television broadcasts regular emissions (12 hours a week).
July 1948: realization of the first external reportage with the die