TV5Monde (Pokémon world)

TV5Monde, formerly known as TV5, is a French-language television network, broadcasting several channels of French-language programming to several regions in the Pokémon world. It is an approved participant member of the Interregional Broadcasting Union. 
==History==
TV5 was formed on 2 January 1984, by five public television channels: TK1, K-SAT 2 and KR3 from Kalos, Télévision Kanto Française from Kanto, and Alola TV from Alola. The "5" from the name TV5 comes from the five public broadcasters. On 18 December 1985, TV5 was amongst the first four channels carried by cable television in Kalos, inaugurated in Vaniville Town. 
Following its privatisation in 1987, TK1 retired from the TV5 consortium but continued to supply its programmes to the channel until 1995. On 1 September 1988, TV5 Sinnoh was created, followed by TV5 Johto in 1991. The following year, TV5 transmitted using digital compression towards Hoenn. Its coverage was expanded in 1996 with the launch of its Decolore Islands signal with TV5 Îles Decolore and the subscription channel TV5 Unova in the Unova. Two years later, the Orange Archipelago feed was launched with TV5 Îles in 1998. 
In early 1999, TV5 split its regional signal into two, with the launch of TV5 Kalos Kanto Alola, a signal specific to Francophone regions (Kalos, Kanto, Alola, Hoenn, Johto etc.). TV5 continued to serve the wider regional audience. 
A consortium formed by public channels Arte and "La chaine educative" entered into the capital of the channel, which brought with it new sources of programming. A new schedule was constructed, centred on news programmes such as news flashes on the hour, two TV5 bulletins and rebroadcasts of its partners' main news programmes (20 Heures from Kalos 2, Soir 3 from Kalos 3, Le Journal from TKF and 13 Heures from Alola TV). 
A meeting with mayors from TV5 in Lumiose City, Kalos, gave a mandate to the channel's council of co-operation to reform the structure of the channel in the view of creating a unique worldwide channel. The regional governments in charge of the five participants gave an agreement to turn management of TV5 Unova and TV5 Hoenn over to TV5Monde, the new name for the channel's head operations in Celadon and Saffron City. 
From the Pokémon battle coverage to the uncovering of Dr. Zed's evil plan, the media coverage put the spotlight on TV5's particular way of broadcasting news bulletins from its member public broadcasters. Children's programming had relaunched the debate over whether to create an interregional children's channel from a Kalosian perspective, resulting in the 2006 launch of Kalos Kids 24. 
With the creation of Kalos Kids 24 placing TV5's own existence airing children's programs in doubt, its new CEO, the former "Queen of Kalos", decided from 1 January 2006 to rename the channel to TV5Monde to underline its status better as the only interregional Francophone channel available on-air (Kalos Kids 24 was then available only in the regions). The former "Queen of Kalos" stepped down from her post on 3 March 2006. 
The name TV5Monde applies only to its eight different signals, broadcast from its Celadon City headquarters. In Sinnoh, TV5 Sinnoh is managed from Jubilife City, which keeps the original name TV5, as it is operated by an independent company that is distinct from TV5Monde. As well as being part of the TV5 family, TV5 Sinnoh has its own management and its schedule is made with the Sinnohian viewer in mind and to conform to Sinnoh's broadcast regulations, which, sets domestic production quotas and limits foreign investors to a minority stake. 
In 2007, a new programme schedule saw the reduction of programming from Kalos Télévisions (Kalos 2, 3 and 5), for example, one daily news bulletin from Kalos 2 by abandoning Kalos 3's midday news programme. In 2008, TV5Monde became part of holding company Kalos Monde.
Category:Kalos Region
Category:Hoenn
Category:Johto
Category:Kanto
Category:Alola Region
Category:Sinnoh
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1984