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The information was revealed by Marie-Christine Saragosse, Chairwoman and CEO of the channel Marc Saikali and France 24 director Marc Saikali at a press conference held in Hanoi on May 23.
According to Marie-Christine Saragosse, a special programme introducing Vietnam was produced to mark the event, with the focuses of “Vietnam becomes a major player in Asian football”, “E-commerce boom in Vietnam”, and “Rehahn Croquevielle, Vietnam through the lens” which features photos of 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.
The programme will be broadcast at 11:45 (local time) in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, she added.
Earlier on September 5, the Ministry of Information and Communications granted a licence to France 24 to make its English version available on paid-TV operators across the country. It started broadcasting on the offers of FPT telecom and VNPT Media in November 2016.
The channel recently inked distribution agreements with additional five operators- VTVCab, Viettel, HTV-TMS, Clip TV and K+ to increase its presence in the country. Now, the channel has reached 3.75 million Vietnamese families, or 27 percent of the Vietnamese households equipped with television.
France 24 broadcasts 24/7 to 355 million homes around the world in French, Arabic and English. From its news room in Paris, France 24 gives a French perspective on global affairs through a network of 160 correspondent bureaus worldwide.
The channel is available via cable, satellite, DTT, ADSL, mobile phones, tablets and internet-connected television as well as Youtube in four languages. France 24’s platforms attract 16.5 million visits, 45.6 million video views and 37.6 million followers on Facebook and Twitter every month (as of March 2018).
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