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A new regional channel has launched in local TNT, targeting the Paris/IDF region. It is Le Figaro TV Île-de-France, launched on Monday, which is a joint venture between national newspaper Le Figaro and Lille-based Groupe SECOM (also part-owner of BFM Grand Lille/Grand Littoral). The channel is designed to be a Paris-friendly channel, as it leverages the Figaro news and culture newsrooms and SECOM's cultural output produced for its globally distributed Museum Channel to produce an unique mix of content mixing longform news, current affairs, debates and cultural content (most of which has been sourced from FigaroLive, its digital video platform, with some original content specific to the channel) and a mix of documentaries, concerts and reports on the Parisian cultural scene. The channel replaces a temporary Paris-specific version of the Museum Channel, launched in July 2021 after SECOM and Figaro took over the license of ViàGrandParis (bankrupt). It is available on LCN 34 Paris-wide and on regional cable; it can also be seen nationally on ISP boxes.

How did France get so right what we got so wrong - DTT in HD as standard for years now and local channels which people watch and actually thrive, plus UHD channels set to launch this year.    Meanwhile we're just about getting BBC1 regional news in HD, have closed down two HD muxes, local TV is the disaster that is never spoken about and Freeview still packed with SD channels with seemingly no plan to move forward to HD as the norm.