France Starts Gay TV Channel PinkTV
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The transgender sportscaster wears a miniskirt, the porn is gay, lesbian and bisexual, and Wonder Woman will be on every night at seven.
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PARIS - The television channel run by Lebanon&#39;s Hizbollah guerrillas and banned in France as anti-Semitic has agreed to stop its satellite broadcasts here immediately, France&#39;s broadcasting authority said on Tuesday.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  May 24--TOKYO -- Information services firm Recruit Co. said Thursday it  will set up a joint venture with French broadcaster Television France 1 and  Paris-based investment firm Artemis Group to publish a free magazine in  France.
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(InfoWorld) - GoogleÂ launched versions of its video sharing service YouTube in French and other languages on Tuesday. Localized versions now exist for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. TheÂ French siteÂ features titles and help pages in French, and the top video is a welcome message from French rapper Kamini, who began promoting his brand of rural rap through YouTube's English-language site last November with a video clip entitled "Marly-Gomont". For now, the international sites draw on the same database of videos and rankings as the U.S. site, but in time Google plans to add country-specific video rankings and comments, it said Tuesday. Today, the French site displays French-language content and rankings previously posted to the main site. "The big thing for YouTube in 2007 is access," YouTube founder Chad Hurley said at a Google news conference in Paris on Tuesday. Hurley and his co-foundersÂ sold YouTube to GoogleÂ last October for $1.65 billion. "We have a goal to put YouTube on every screen, and we mean on mobile devices and in the living room. Right now it's restricted to your browser, to your PC, and we want you to be able to take that same content and bring it to your mobile phone and be able to watch it in your living room," Hurley said. Plans to reach those other screens are already under way: on May 30, Apple announced it will put YouTube in the living room by building support for it into a future software update for itsÂ AppleTV set-top box, while on Saturday YouTube launched a version of its site for mobile phones. However, it will require partnerships with mobile phone operators, and months or even years of work, before YouTube Mobile offers the same experience as the Web site offers PC users today, Hurley said. Over half of YouTube's traffic today comes from outside the U.S., Hurley said, and delivering localized versions of YouTube is a way for the company to capitalize on that. However, expanding internationally may expose YouTube to the kinds of censorship issues that Google has been experiencing in China. "I think a platform such as YouTube has to respect local laws and customs," YouTube founder Chad Hurley, adding that the company is developing ways to enable the fine-grained control of content required to do that. In preparation for the launch of the new sites, YouTube has already signed content partnerships with the British Broadcasting Corp.; French 24-hour news channel France 24; Spain's Antena 3 and Cuatro TV; RÃ¡dio e TelevisÃ£o de Portugal; the Dutch VPRO and NPO; European football clubs such as Chelsea FC, AC Milan, Barcelona FC, and Real Madrid, and nonprofit organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and MÃ©dÃ©cins du Monde, said Google. In the past, Google's cultural initiatives such asÂ Google Book SearchÂ have faced criticism -- from the head of the French National Library, Jean-NoÃ«l Jeanneney, among others -- for the way in which they encourage the dominance of U.S. values by making it easier to find cultural resources in English than in other languages. Linking with producers of local cultural content and making it easier to search that material may improve Google's image in some countries. That said, YouTube has proved popular in Europe despite only having an English-language interface until now. In France in April, its U.S. site had almost as many visitors as the French-language pages of local video sharing service DailyMotion, according to market researcher comScore,Â (DailyMotion also offers services in a number of other languages, including English, German, Russian, and Japanese.) One European language notably missing from the new crop of YouTube sites is German. YouTube is already the No. 1 video sharing site in Germany, according to Comscore, narrowly ahead of the German-language service MyVideo operated by MyVideo Broadband SRL of Bucharest, Romania. In Germany, it's more important to understand the German viewer's mind-set than their language, according to Anca-Alina Seghedi, CEO of MyVideo. "Most of the German users of video communities already speak English, at least sufficiently to navigate on an international web site. That means the language barrier is not the main decisive point for users to choose their favorite web sites," she said Friday. MyVideo may be better placed to understand Germans than YouTube, said Seghedi. "It is questionable whether they will be able to adapt to the German consumer tastes, which has been quite an important aspect of MyVideo's success in Germany." At Google's news conference on Tuesday, YouTube international manager Sakina Arsiwala said: "We have to talk to more people on the ground. We were not ready for Germany yet, from the product side or partnership side. We would love to be in Germany." (James Niccolai in Paris contributed to this report.) Â
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By Anonymous  As part of the Nissan-sponsored Glamour Reel Music initiative, party-popster Pink made her directorial debut with the single "Hello Bonjour" by New York rockers the Pretty Boys.
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The French prime minister says a French-language satellite TV news channel will be launched next year.
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France's highest administrative body on Friday ordered a Lebanese TV network linked to the anti-Israel group Hezbollah to adhere to broadcast regulations or face being banned from French airwaves.
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France's first international news channel is launched into competition with BBC World and CNN.
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The launch of France's first gay television channel, Pink TV, on Monday has been touted as a big step for television and a new era for homosexuality in this largely Roman Catholic country.
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ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France, Dec. 6 -- There  are more than 500 kinds of French cheese and 362 types of French wine. Why shouldn't there be at least one international French news channel?
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"With taxpayers' money, I am not prepared to broadcast a channel that does not speak French"  President Sarkozy said a French channel can only speak French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said his country will stop broadcasting its English- language 24-hour news channel, France 24. via BBC
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France is to launch a French-language news channel next year in a long-awaited attempt to challenge the dominance of the American view of world current affairs, the prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, said yesterday.
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Gay porn and "Wonder Woman" repeats are to be offered in heavy doses on television in France from Monday as the country's first station aimed at homosexuals starts operations via cable and satellite.
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PARIS  &#151; The transgender sportscaster wears a miniskirt, the porn is gay, lesbian and bisexual, and Wonder Woman will be on every night at seven.
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France is pressing on with plans for a French-language rival to 24-hour global news stations such as CNN, a minister says, adding that such a station would help France explain its foreign policy.
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French Agriculture Minister Herve Gaymard is to succeed Nicolas Sarkozy as finance minister, a government official said Monday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said Budget Minister
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French conglomerate wants to build its presence in domestic telecom market, confirming talks.