BFM Business

BFM Business (called BFM for Business FM until April 2009 and BFM Radio until November 2010) is France's first business news channel. It's also the most-listened to business news radio station in this country. From November 2010, BFM Business is a national economic television station offering regional variation in Ile-de-France. That regional variation was shut down in November 2016 and replaced by a local news channel, BFM Paris.

BFM Business
Launched1992
Picture format16:9 (576i, SDTV)
Slogan"La France a tout pour réussir"
France has everything to succeed
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Websitewww.bfmbusiness.com
Availability
Terrestrial
TNT24 (Only Île-de-France)
Satellite
CanalChannel 108 (HD)
Cable
Numéricable95
IPTV
Alice81
Free80 & 213
Orange149
SFR46
Bouygues Telecom153

Founded in 1992, it has been part of NextRadioTV group since 2002.

Organization

Management

The chief executive officer is Guillaume Dubois and the assistant CEO is Nicolas Lespaule.

Capital

BFM Business is held by the French group NextradioTV which also owns the national news channel BFM TV and RMC radio station.

Broadcasting

From November 2010 to November 2016, the television station was broadcast in 16:9 format on TNT in the Paris region (channel 24). It is still available by satellite in Western Europe and North Africa via Eutelsat 5 West A, available through Fransat, BiS TV and TV Orange-labeled or not.

By land line in France, the channel is available via ADSL, SD streams, Internet and IPTV, through most operators. It is also distributed by a number of cable networks.

The website offers live streaming and a variety of podcasts (also available on the iTunes Store). BFM is also available on most radios sold in the Internet commerce, streaming.

Presenters
  • Guillaume Sommerer
  • Cédric Decoeur
  • Grégoire Favet
  • Sébastien Couasnon
  • Hedwige Chevrillon
  • Fabrice Lundy
  • Stéphane Soumier
  • and others.

Slogan
  • December 2002 - November 2010: "La radio de l'économie" (The radio of economy) [1]
  • November 2010 - September 2014: "Numéro un sur l'économie" (Number one for economy)[2]
  • Since September 2014: "La France a tout pour réussir" (France has everything to succeed)
gollark: This is surprisingly hard, though I feel as if it may be easier with TRIGONOMETRY™™.
gollark: ... and a ruler.
gollark: Hold on, I'll go find some paper.
gollark: I feel like Nobody may be overcomplicating it.
gollark: Yes.

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-08-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://www.jeanmarcmorandini.com/article-45155-nouveau-nom-bfm-radio-va-devenir-bfm-business.html


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