French gov't outlines revamped public TV

November 07, 2008 On the heels of its move to an advertising-free primetime, the French government on Friday outlined detailed plans for a dramatic renovation of programming on the country's public TV group, France Televisions. Each of the public group's networks will be obliged to broadcast "at least one cultural program every day during the first part of primetime," according to a government agenda printed Friday in Gallic newspapers Le Point and Le Figaro. In order to enforce these requirements, the government has instated a points system whereby each network must maintain 100 points per year.

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