La Chaîne Info

La Chaîne Info
Launched June 24, 1994 at 20:30
Owned by TF1
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Country France
Website http://lci.tf1pro.com
Availability
Terrestrial
TNT Channel 26
Satellite
Canalsat Channel 103
Cable
Numericable Channel 51
MC Cable Channel 81
Naxoo Channel 69
IPTV
Canalsat Channel 103

La Chaîne Info, or LCI (French: "The Info Channel") is a French TV news channel. The network provides 24-hour national and global news coverage.

History

LCI was created on June 24, 1994, by Christian Dutoit on behalf of the media group TF1. The launch of LCI was simulcast on TF1. [1]

The broadcast began at 8:30 pm with the live TV news programme presented by Françoise-Marie Morel. The first guest was the CEO of the channel, Étienne Mougeotte.

The channel was also broadcast in Italy on digital terrestrial television from 2004 to December 2006 on Dfree multiplex.

In 2006, the channel's web site appeared twice in the James Bond film Casino Royale, a product placement that the channel says it did not pay for..

On April 5, 2016, the channel became free-to-air and began broadcasting on channel 26 via digital terrestrial television in France.

Programs

Logos

References

  1. ↑ YouTube, June 8, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2016.

External links

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