France 5 is available round the clock on cable, but over the air its analog programming is replaced by that of ARTE during the evening hours (both channels have distinct full-time scheduling on digital TV broadcast). Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical... Arte is a French-German TV network, which aims to promote quality programming related to the world of arts and culture. ...
France 5 was called La Cinquième until January 2002. It was born officially on February 1994, more than one year after the financial collapse in April 1992 of the channel La Cinq(which was the first free private channel in France, but also the first channel in the world which died in live), reusing its past analog broadcasting network. La Cinquième started emitting in december 1994 with a mix of small educational programs, during the hours not used by ARTE (that was founded just a few days after the death of La Cinq). 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for January, 2002. ...
It was renamed France 5 later, when it was integrated in the new France Televisions public holding which already grouped Antenne 2 (renamed France 2), and FR3 (France Régions 3, renamed France 3). Since then, France 5 broadcasting hours have been extended to 24 hours a day (initially available only on cable and satellite, and since spring 2005 on air within the new digital broadcasting multiplex "R1" network that supports all national public TV channels and that will replace the existing equivalent analog broadcast channels).
France's capital flows and foreign investment score is 1 point worse this year; however, its fiscal burden of government score is 0.2 point better, and its government intervention score is 2 points better.
As a member of the European Union, France was subject to a common EU weighted average external tariff of 1.3 percent in 2003, down from the 2.4 percent for 2002 reported in the 2005 Index, based on World Bank data.
France had 925 banks and financial institutions at the end of 2003, including 304 commercial banks, 167 of which were foreign-owned subsidiaries and branches.
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