The French national broadcaster, France Télévisions, broadcasts the event within France and announced in August 2014 that the selection of the nation's entry would be delegated to the television channel France 2; since 1999, France 3 had been responsible of selecting and organising the French entry and broadcasting the contest in France. France 2 confirmed that France would participate in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest on 1 September 2014. The French broadcaster had used both national finals and internal selection to choose the French entry in the past. The 2014 French entry was selected via a national final that featured three competing acts. In 2015, the broadcaster opted to internally select the French entry.