Monaco becomes the 6th member of TV5 Monde
After France, Switzerland, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Canada and Quebec, Monaco has just joined the circle of donor governments for the TV5 Monde channel. The Principality is the sixth country to join this network, the first for 35 years and this agreement offers a place within the TV5 Monde group.
The international television channel prides itself on being present everywhere in the world where there is a connected television set. Posted in 211 éstates, including North Korea. And captured by nearly 404 million homes. “We weigh a little over 60 million viewers, blows the son general manager, Yves Bigot. We are absolutely everywhere on the planet, like FIFA. “
A new channel
Monaco’s membership was a priority in the channel’s 2021-2024 strategic plan and the global appeal has seduced the authorities in the Principality, to make TV5 Monde the showcase for several facets of the country: culture, sport, ‘environment. All while playing its role of promoting the Francophonie and its pluralism throughout the world.
To join the bosom of TV5 Monde, a national television channel was needed. It is chosen made with the creation of Monte-Carlo Riviera. It should start broadcasting in September 2022 to be the preferred broadcast channel. The programs of the local national channel, set up to be the Monegasque public broadcaster, will be broadcast on TV5 Monde for international broadcast. Monte-Carlo Riviera will also soon consolidate the capital of TV5 Monde and sit on its board of directors.
Cultural diversity and quality information
Last October, the current boss of Monte-Carlo Riviera, Salim Zeghdar, who has been supporting the creation of this channel for several months, explained in our columns considering an environmental channel, part of the funding of which would come from sponsorship and advertising .
Off the air, Monaco is now associated with the annual conference of ministers responsible for defining the channel’s strategic orientations and setting the budgetary contributions of each partner government. A new role endorsed by the signing of the TV5 charter this Thursday, initialed by Laurent Anselmi, government advisor-Minister of External Relations and Cooperation. “This strategic orientation of Monaco’s desire to promote, from an independent media, cultural diversity and quality information, open to global issues. Monaco reaffirms by this occasion its support for the activities of the Francophonie, as well as its attachment to the influence of the French language in the world ”, he declared, initialing the document under the gaze of the sovereign, the Minister of State and representatives of the French ministries of Culture and Europe and Foreign Affairs and the management of TV5 Monde