FRANCE 24 Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
Launched on December 6, 2006, France 24 celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the channel will offer a special week of programming from Wednesday, December 2, to Sunday, December 6, across its four channels and digital platforms, looking back on two decades of international news coverage and paying tribute to the people who bring the channel to life every day.
Highlights will include retrospectives of award-winning documentaries, revisiting the major events that have shaped the past two decades, first-hand accounts from journalists and correspondents around the world, and anniversary messages from the channel’s guests, amongst others. A wide range of special editorial features will also be broadcast and published throughout the week.
Through this landmark celebration, France 24 will highlight 20 years of international journalism, editorial innovation, and meaningful encounters, while reaffirming its commitment to providing free, independent, and reliable news worldwide.
About France 24, a France Médias Monde Channel
France 24 is composed of four global 24-hour news channels (in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish), broadcasting 24/7 to 577 million households across all five continents. Each week, France 24 reaches 153.7 million people, including 108.5 million viewers. France 24’s newsroom offers a French perspective on world events and relies on a network of 200 correspondents covering nearly every country around the globe. The channel is distributed via cable, satellite, digital terrestrial television (DTT) in certain countries, ADSL, as well as on mobile phones, tablets, and connected TVs, and on YouTube in its four language versions. France 24’s digital platforms, also available in four languages, record 17.9 million visits per month, 2.6 billion video views (in 2025), and bring together more than 73.3 million subscribers across Facebook, X, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, and TikTok. France 24 is the leading French news channel on YouTube and WhatsApp.
[Source: France 24 press release]