France Ô

France Ô

Final logo, used from 29 January 2018.
Country	France
Broadcast area	France
Headquarters	3–4, rue Danton 92299 Malakoff, Hauts-de-Seine
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (16:9)
Ownership
Owner	France Télévisions
Sister channels	France 2 France 3 France 4 France 5 France Info
History
Launched	25 March 1998; 26 years ago (1998-03-25)
Closed	24 August 2020; 3 years ago (2020-08-24)
Former names	RFO Sat (1998–2004)
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	Channel 19
Digital terrestrial television in Overseas France	Channel 6 or 7 or 8

France Ô (pronounced [fʁɑ̃s o]) was a French free-to-air television channel featuring programming from the French overseas departments and collectivities in Metropolitan France. It was part of the France Télévisions group. It was a national counterpart of the local Outre-Mer 1ère networks.^[1]

History

The channel was launched in 1998 as RFO Sat by Jean-Marie Cavada, then-president of RFO, and initially broadcast for only 9 hours per day. It was re-branded as France Ô on 25 February 2005 after the reunification of RFO with France Télévisions. The "O" stands for Outre-mer (overseas); the circumflex, which is considered an accent in French grammar, was used to emphasize that the channel was open to diverse accents and dialects, as well as to ensure that the name was not read as France 0 ("France zero").^[2]

The channel became available in overseas territories in November 2010, replacing the RFO-operated Tempo, and was launched in DTT nationally the same year.

Closure

In July 2018 the French government announced the closure of France Ô due to declining viewership. The ceasing of broadcast was scheduled for 9 August 2020, in time for the climax of the 2020 Summer Olympics, but was later pushed to 24 August due to scheduling issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the games being initially delayed to 2021. The last programme broadcast on the channel was a repeat of the concert L'Outre-mer fait son Olympia 2019. After this, the channel only broadcast a loop of commercials promoting a new France Télévisions portal for overseas territories, known as "Portail des Outre-mer La 1ère", in addition to other overseas-themed programs on other France Télévisions channels. Its signal was permanently cut off on 2 September.^[3][4]

Logos

• 
  Logo of France Ô from 2005 to 7 April 2008.
• 
  Logo of France Ô from 7 April 2008 till 29 January 2018.
• 
  Logo of France Ô from 29 January 2018 till 24 August 2020.
• 
  On-screen logo of France Ô from 29 January 2018 till 24 August 2020.

See also

• BBC World News
• Bermuda Broadcasting
• Caribbean Broadcast Network
• Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation
• RTV-7
• TeleAruba
• TeleCuraçao

References

• v
• t
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France Télévisions

Main channels

Current	France 2 France 3 France 4 France 5 La Première France Info Culturebox
Former	France Ô

Regional channels

France 3	Alpes Alsace Aquitaine Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Normandie Bourgogne Bretagne Centre-Val de Loire Champagne-Ardenne Corse Côte d’Azur Franche-Comté Normandie Languedoc-Roussillon Limousin Poitou-Charentes Lorraine Midi-Pyrénées Nord-Pas-de-Calais Nouvelle-Aquitaine NoA Paris Île-de-France Pays de la Loire Picardie Poitou-Charentes Provence-Alpes
La Première	Guadeloupe Martinique Guyane Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Mayotte Réunion Nouvelle-Calédonie Polynésie Wallis et Futuna

Internet

• France.tv
  • Culturebox
  • Okoo [fr]
  • Slash
  • Sport [fr]
• France Info
• Lumni [fr]
• Salto

Partnerships

• Mezzo
• France 24
• TV5Monde
• Euronews (former)
• Gulli (former)