FRANCE 24 celebrates five years on the air

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Last modification: 07/12/11

FRANCE 24 is celebrating five years of broadcasting in French, English and Arabic. The channel was launched on 6 December 2006 and today has over 30 million weekly viewers and some one million ‘Likes’ on Facebook. Two million people have downloaded our awardwinning mobile app and some 250,000 follow us on Twitter. To honour the occasion, we've prepared an exceptional day of news for our viewers all over the world. Happy Birthday, FRANCE 24!

THE STARS WISH US A HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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US filmstar and musician Jared Leto
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Malian duo Amadou and Mariam
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Belgian cartoonist Philippe Geluck

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Tech 24 celebrates five years of FRANCE 24

In honour of FRANCE 24's fifth birthday this week, Tech 24 goes behind the scenes in the newsroom to bring you an inside view of how the channel manages its large and growing social network feeds. Also, a sneak peek at interactive television and how FRANCE 24 is using this technology to reach even larger audiences around the world.

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Behind the scenes at FRANCE 24: meet the multimedia team

BIRTHDAY GUESTS

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Bernard-Henri Levy, writer and philosopher
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Agnès B, French fashion designer
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Jacques Attali, French economist

WEB GREETINGS

Celebrate FRANCE 24's fifth birthday on Facebook

We’d like you to help us celebrate our fifth birthday! Send us a birthday greeting in pictures or video and we’ll take the best ones and put them on FRANCE 24 television.

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