Regional Structure
From its historical origins, the Third Channel has utilised regional editorial and production centres which were developed since 1963 and owned by the ORTF.
The regional centres are often grouped in two levels – two half-hour news programmes and a short late night bulletin are produced and broadcast each day (in many cases, separate bulletins are produced for various parts of the region). The centres also produce shorter, more localised news bulletins for broadcast within 19|20. For example, France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie produces localised bulletins for Côte d'Opale, Lille Métropole and Picardy. Various sport, features, current affairs and entertainment programming produced for and about the regions are also broadcast.
13 regional stations make up the network. Between them, the stations provide 24 sub-regional services, whose broadcast areas approximately match the 22 metropolitan régions of France (the exceptions being that Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes are sub-divided into two). Each sub-regional news service emanates from a distinct centre of production. In addition, the stations provide 42 more localised news opt-outs.
| Region name | Area served | News regions | Centres of production | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | France 3 Alsace | Alsace | 1 | Strasbourg | |
| 2. | France 3 Aquitaine | Aquitaine | 1 | Bordeaux | |
| 3. | France 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comté | Bourgogne, Franche-Comté | 2 | Dijon, Besançon | |
| 4. | France 3 Corse | Corsica | 1 | Ajaccio | |
| 5. | France 3 Lorraine Champagne-Ardenne | Lorraine, Champagne-Ardenne | 2 | Nancy, Reims | |
| 6. | France 3 Méditerranée | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 2 | Marseille, Antibes | |
| 7. | France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie | Nord-Pas de Calais, Picardy | 2 | Lille, Amiens | |
| 8. | France 3 Normandie | Lower Normandy, Upper Normandy | 2 | Caen, Rouen | |
| 9. | France 3 Ouest | Brittany, Pays de la Loire | 2 | Rennes, Nantes | |
| 10. | France 3 Paris Île-de-France Centre | Île-de-France (including Paris), Centre | 2 | Vanves, Orléans | |
| 11. | France 3 Limousin Poitou-Charentes | Limousin, Poitou-Charentes | 2 | Limoges, Poitiers | |
| 12. | France 3 Rhône Alpes Auvergne | Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne | 3 | Lyon, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand | |
| 13. | France 3 Sud | Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées | 2 | Toulouse, Montpellier |
Some news reports sourced from France 3 Ouest were aired by Channel Television for the now-defunct weekly news programme Rendezvous Dimanche. In Belgium, local programming from France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie has been known to receive twice the amount of viewers than in its intended coverage area.
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