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France Culture (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s kyltyʁ]) is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France.Its programming encompasses a wide variety of features on historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and scientific themes (including debates, discussions, and documentaries), as well as literary readings, radio plays, and experimental productions.
It launched as a basic subscription channel in 1998, under the name L'Équipe TV. In late 2012, L'Équipe TV became L'Équipe 21 and started broadcasting in high definition on France's free digital terrestrial television (DTT). It was rebranded again to L'Équipe in September 2016. [2] L'Equipe 21 logo from 2012 to 2016.
Because each club was the owner to market its audiovisual rights, Antena 3 and Canal Plus began to negotiate to be able to acquire the rights of the largest number of clubs with the 1998-99 season, a fight to which TV3 would also join, which would start the so-called The football war (La guerra del fútbol).
France hosts "the world's biggest annual sporting event", the annual cycling race Tour de France. [37] Other popular sports played in France include: football, judo, tennis, [38] rugby union [39] and pétanque. France has hosted events such as the 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, [40] the 2007 Rugby World Cup, [41] and the 2023 Rugby World Cup. [42]
This is a list of TV services available on digital terrestrial, satellite, internet streaming and cable systems in France. National DTT channels (Metropolitan France) [ edit ]
The following article is a summary of the 2019–20 football season in France, which was the 86th season of competitive football in the country and ran from July 2019 to June 2020. On 28 April 2020, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced all sporting events in France would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Since 1956, France Football presents the Ballon d'Or (lit. ' "Golden Ball" '), initially referred to as the "European Footballer of the Year" award.Following the award's merger with the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2010, the magazine awarded the FIFA Ballon d'Or to the world's best player in partnership with FIFA, the sport's governing body, until 2016, when it resumed full ownership ...
The Ligue de Football Professionnel (French pronunciation: [liɡ də futbol pʁɔfɛsjɔnɛl], Professional Football League), commonly known as the LFP, is a French governing body that runs the major professional football leagues in France and Monaco. [3] It was founded in 1944 and serves under the authority of the French Football Federation ...