French TV channels to watch live for free online

8 Mont-Blanc – a Savoie-based local television channel, broadcast on Television Numerique Terrestre, cable and satellite. Historical chain of Savoie Mont Blanc. From the economy to local heritage, including sports and mountain broadcasts.

BFM TV – a 24-hour rolling news and weather channel based in France and available globally via digital, cable and satellite television. As the country’s most-watched news channel with 10 million daily viewers, BFM TV “boasts a market share in France that is greater than any equivalent news channel around the world”.

BFM Business – is France’s first business news channel. It’s also the most-listened to business news radio station in this country. BFM Business is a national economic television station offering regional variation in Ile-de-France.

CNews – a French free-to-air news channel launched by Canal+ Group. It provides 24-hour national and global news coverage. It is the second most watched news network in France, after BFM TV and before LCI and France Info.

TV7 Bordeaux – a local private general-interest television channel in Bordeaux belonging to the eponymous company. The channel is mostly called TV7. In the morning, the channel broadcasts discovery magazines of the New Aquitaine region. In the afternoon, the channel broadcasts programs and reports on the Bordeaux region.

France 24 – a French state-owned international news television network based in Paris. Its channels broadcast in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish and are aimed at the overseas market. It is aimed at a worldwide market and is generally broadcast by pay television providers around the world. The stated mission of the channels is to “provide a global public service and a common editorial stance”.

France Info – a French domestic rolling news TV channel. France Info involves France Televisions, Radio France, France Medias Monde (with France 24) and the Institut national de l’audiovisuel.

IDF1 – on IDF1, a family entertainment and local channel, find your cult French series, the best telenovelas and service and variety shows, movies.

TV5 Monde – formerly known as TV5, is a French television network, broadcasting several channels of French-language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union. Most of its content is taken from mainstream networks in the French-speaking world, notably France Televisions from France, RTBF from Belgium, RTS from Switzerland and the Radio-Canada and TVA networks in Canada.

TVPI Bayonne – a French private local television channel broadcasting in the Basque Country and Sud-Landes. TVPI broadcasts short magazine reports, rebroadcast every hour, which made the channel’s audience success.

TVR – a local French television channel born in March 1987 under the name TV Rennes. Inaugurated at its launch by the President of the Republic, it was the first local television created in France.

Africa 24 TV – a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week television news network devoted to news about Africa. It broadcasts in French to France, but is also available in Sub-Saharan Africa. Africa 24 is comparable with the United States-based news network CNN, Britain’s BBC World News, France’s France 24, the pan-European Euronews, Germany’s Deutsche Welle, and Arab- and English-language news broadcaster Al Jazeera.

RFI – Radio France Internationale, usually referred to as RFI, is the state-owned international radio broadcaster of France. It is one of the most-listened-to international radio stations in the world.