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:

• Science-fiction dramas, such as Dark Skies, Profiler and Stargate SG-1. M6 is the only television service in France to have science-fiction programming as part of its regular schedule,

• American programs, such as Sex and the City and The Cosby Show,

• Investigative journalism shows, such as Capital and Zone interdite.

• Long-lasting short programs, such as Culture Pub, Turbo, CinéSix, and E=M6, and

• Music videos.

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

External link

• M6 (http://www.m6.fr)