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Arte

Coordinates: 48°35′38″N 7°45′58″E / 48.5938°N 7.7662°E / 48.5938; 7.7662
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Arte
CountryFrance
Germany
Programming
Language(s)French
German
Ownership
OwnerGroupe Arte

Arte (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne) is a Franco-German TV network, a European channel, that promotes programming in the areas of culture and the arts. Its facilities are in Issy-les-Moulineaux, south of Paris, and it is jointly headquartered in Strasbourg, France, and Baden-Baden, Germany. As an international joint venture (an EEIG), its programs cater technically to audiences from both France and Germany. This implies double-titling, opposite-language subtitling, dubbing, hosts who speak both languages alternately, and two separate audio tracks (through DVB-T, satellite television and digital cable).

History

The Arte building in Strasbourg

Arte began transmission in 1992, filling frequencies left unused by the demise of La Cinq, the first French commercial television network (created in 1986).

Programs are created by Arte France formerly known as La Sept (theoretically La Société d'édition des programmes de télévision, but also a play on words, given that the name intuitively means the seventh network and indeed La Sept existed while the fifth network was still La Cinq; it made satellite television programs at the time) and by ARTE Deutschland GmbH, a subsidiary of the two main public German TV networks ARD and ZDF.

Arte has also an on-line radio web site, called Arte Radio.

Transmission and reception

In France, in digital broadcast programming is available permanently on digital cable, digital satellite and digital terrestrial television.

Arte is more popular in France (market share of about 5%) than in Germany (about 1%), but in Germany it has much more competition and in fact it is the public service German channels who produce a great deal of the content that is sourced by ARTE. Political and administrative control at ARTE is very much in French hands but it is the Germans who produce the majority percentage of the channel's European programme content.

Arte is also formally available in Belgium, Austria, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland via cable. While viewers spanning from the UK to Iran take advantage of the ASTRA and HOTBIRD transmissions. Though SD on HOTBIRD is now MPEG-4 which most SD receivers cannot decode the video of although audio is still heard. Hence ASTRA has become the primary ARTE source for non-HD viewers in Europe, North Africa and West Asia.

The Australian Special Broadcasting Service translates many Arte programs into English for broadcast on its own television network and overseas.

Many French-language Arte programs are also broadcast in Canada on the ARTV cable channel, partly owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (85%) and Arte itself (15%).

On 1 July 2008, Arte began broadcasting in HDTV (720p/50) via DVB-S2 on Astra. Arte is now the second available 24-hour HDTV channel transmitting via satellite to their German and French audience, next to the German Sky pay TV HDTV channel.

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References

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48°35′38″N 7°45′58″E / 48.5938°N 7.7662°E / 48.5938; 7.7662

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