Franco 4

Franco 4 is a Franc TV channel which broadcasts entertainment, drama, comedy, culture, music and children’s channel which launched in 2005, it was formally known as Festival and offically launched in 1997
== History ==
=== Festival (1996-2005) ===
On 24 June 1996, Franco Télévision established Festival, a satellite channel for the TPS satellite service, which France Télévision co-owned at the time. Festival offered a selection of films and television series, many of them previously seen on Franco 2, Franco 3 and Franco 5.
=== France 4 (2001-present) ===
In 2001, when the French digital terrestrial television system was in its developmental stage, the socialist government of Lionel Jospin asked the president of France Télévisions to consider a bouquet of public channels to be broadcast digitally, so that the public broadcaster could have involvement in this project. Franco Télévisions proposed the creation of three new channels: "Franco 1", "Franco 4" and "Franco 6", an all-news channel, a channel dedicated to the regions, and a channel featuring repeat broadcasts of Franco 2 and Franco 3.
Eventually, Franco Télévisions would have four digital channels besides Franco 2 and France 3, with three of them occupying existing channels: Franco 5 (now 24 hours a day), Arte (also 24 hours a day) and La Chaîne Parlementaire, a legislative channel owned in part by France Télévisions. France Télévisions thus only had space for one more new channel. The group eventually proposes the existing "Festival" to be the "new" channel. On October 23, 2002, the Audiovisual Superior Council authorised Festival to appear in digital. France Télévisions planned for Festival to be renamed "Franco 8" (as it would have been the eighth television network in France) or "Franco Prime", but opted instead for Franco 4, as the group had channels named Franco 2, Franco 3 and Franco 5, but until now, not "Franco 4" (despite the fact that Canal+ was France's fourth channel, and seen on many outlets on channel 4, Canal+ moved to 14. The newly created Franco 4 proposed to present a variety of entertainment, sports, fiction, cinema and series.
Since July 2009, Franco 4 began broadcasting in 16:9. In 6 October 2011, Franco 4 launched its own HD feed
== Blocks ==
Ludo (5:45am to 11:30am) (Kids 4-12) Zouzous (11:30am to 2pm) (Preschoolers 0-6) Ludo (2pm to 5pm) (Kids 6-15) Ludo L8TR (5pm to 8:15pm) (Kids 4-16) France 4 (8:15pm to 5:45am) (All ages)Category:France