Paris (AFP)
The Spanish version of France 24, a French international news television channel, will be broadcast continuously from Friday, its airtime going from 12 hours to 24 hours a day, the channel announced Thursday, anxious to speed up. its development in Latin America.
Launched four years ago, France 24 in Spanish had already doubled its daily broadcast from 6 to 12 hours in September 2019.
This new development should allow it "to strengthen its place in the Latin American audiovisual landscape" by proposing "a continuous information offer in Spanish equivalent to those of France 24 in French, English and Arabic", specifies the public media in a press release.
It thus foresees "a new morning and even more editions of information, magazines, reports and debates".
In addition to the global network of France 24, the Spanish version relies on a multinational editorial office located in Bogota, Colombia, in collaboration with the Spanish-speaking editorial staff of Radio France internationale (RFI).
France 24 and RFI are part of the same public audiovisual group, France Médias Monde.
France 24 is "today broadcast in 17 of the 19 Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America as well as in Brazil," said the press release.
The channel is also "accessible in 12.5 million homes, to which are added 12 million partially broadcast homes in Mexico."
It says it collects "more than three million viewers each week" in Colombia, Argentina and Mexico, a figure up 56% compared to 2019.
On digital, France 24 in Spanish "records 2.8 million visits on average each month (+ 6.4% compared to 2020)".
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