| M6 (Métropole 6)
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| Launched: | 1 April 1987
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| Audience Share in 20041 : | 12.5%
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| Owned By: | Métropole Télévision (of which RTL Group is the principal shareholder)
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| Web Address: | www.m6.fr
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| Availability
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| Terrestrial Analogue: | SECAM in France
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| Satellite: | Atlantic Bird 3 (in Switzerland, W3A)
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Métropole 6, known popularly as simply M6, is a French television service owned by a company called Métropole Télévision. M6 broadcasts an over-the-air SECAM signal, and is also carried on the Atlantic Bird 3 broadcast satellite. M6 also broadcasts a digital signal to Switzerland via the W3A broadcast satellite. As of 2004, it is the second most-watched private television service in France, after TF1.
History
M6 launched on March 1, 1987 at 11:15 a.m. CET.
M6's current on-air image suggests that it tailors its service to adolescent and young-adult demographics. Programs on its schedule include:
- Investigative journalism shows, such as Capital and Zone interdite.
- Long-lasting short programs, such as Culture Pub, Turbo, CinéSix, and E=M6, and
In 2001, M6 became the first French television service to broadcast reality programming. Its first program of this genre was Loft Story, and was watched by many people. The president of TF1 at the time, Étienne Mougeotte, promised that TF1 would never air any reality programming. However, several months later, TF1 signed a contract with Endemol to air such programming. Endemol is the same company that created Loft Story for M6.
Original programs
- Culture Pub
- Le 6 minutes, a brief summary of the day's news
- Capital
- Turbo
- Graine de star
- Le Hit machine
- Popstars
- Loft Story, M6's first reality show
- À la recherche de la nouvelle star, a program similar to American Idol
Note
1 Source:Médiamétrie
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