Arte

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ARTE

Country	France Germany
Broadcast area	France Germany (also available in Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, Austria, and Switzerland)
Headquarters	Strasbourg, France
Programming
Language(s)	French German
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	ARTE France ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH
History
Launched	30 May 1992; 29 years ago (1992-05-30)
Replaced	La Cinq La Sept
Links
Website	arte.tv
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television (France)	Channel 7
Digital terrestrial television (Germany)	Varies by location
Digital terrestrial television (Italy)	Trentino: Varies by city
Satellite
Astra 19.2°E (Europe)	11494 H 22000 2/3 (HD) German 10744 H 22000 5/6 (SD) German
Hot Bird 13°E (Europe, Middle East & North Africa)	11681 H 27500 3/4 (HD) French
AB3 (5°W) (Europe)	11590 V 29500 8/9 (HD) French

Arte (/ɑːrˈteɪ/; Association relative à la télévision européenne, sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel that promotes cultural programming.

It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plus two member companies acting as editorial and programme production centres, ARTE France in Paris (France) and ARTE Deutschland in Baden-Baden (Germany). As an international joint venture (an EEIG), its programmes focuses to audiences in both countries. Due to this, the channel features two audio tracks and two subtitle tracks, each in French and German.

80% of ARTE's programming is provided by its French and German subsidiaries, each making half of the programmes available, while the remainder is being provided by the European subsidiary and the channel's European partners.^[1]

ARTE France was formerly known as La Sept. ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH is a subsidiary of the two main public German TV networks ARD and ZDF.

Selected programmes are available with English, Spanish, Polish and Italian subtitles online.^[2][3][4]

History[]

ARTE began transmission in 1992, filling frequencies left unused by the demise of La Cinq, the first French commercial television network (created in 1986). The opening night on 30 May 1992 was broadcast live from the Strasbourg Opera House.^[5]

ARTE started out as an evening-only service. In the daytime, the frequencies were shared with other channels. A public channel called Télé emploi occupied the French frequencies for about a month during 1994, before the start of La Cinquième (now France 5) in December that year. For German viewers, ARTE was assigned a frequency on the Astra 1D satellite in late 1994, and it was eventually shared with Nickelodeon Germany, later replaced by the new public children's channel Kinderkanal.

In 1996, it started offering an afternoon schedule with reruns for viewers on digital satellite and digital cable. A "proper" afternoon schedule with programmes between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. was introduced on 6 January 2001.^[6] The channel eventually got its own analogue frequency on the Astra satellites.

ARTE has been broadcasting 24/7 since 2005. In 2007 the catch-up service ARTE+7 was launched and offers internet users free access to a broad range of programs within seven days of their original transmission.^[7]

Transmission and reception[]

ARTE programmes are available with multi-channel audio: all programmes go out in French and in German. In addition, whenever possible the original version is offered with French and German subtitles and the hearing or visually impaired may get subtitles or an audio description. Since 2015 a selection of programmes have been available online including English and Spanish subtitles, with Polish to follow in late 2016.^[8]

The channel has a major viewership footprint in Europe. Both the German and the French version can be received in nearly all of Europe via satellite Astra1 (19, 2° East) and the French version is also available via Hot Bird (13° East). ARTE is also relayed not only by all cable networks in Germany and France, but by numerous cable networks in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

Since 2008 ARTE broadcasts in HD in Germany and in France. Like the national channels of its own respective countries, the German HDTVversion of ARTE broadcasts in 720p50, while the French one broadcasts in 1080i25. Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE), a subsidiary of RTL Group and located in Luxembourg, provides most of technical services for ARTE.^[9]

In April 2016 ARTE co-produced (with Astra satellite owner, SES) a live Ultra-high-definition television broadcast of the Le Corsaire ballet from the Vienna State Opera. The programme was transmitted free-to-air on the UHD1 demonstration channel from the Astra 19.2°E satellites.^[10]

Online ARTE programmes can be streamed live or watched on catch-up TV for at least 7 and up to 700 days on ARTE+7 and the theme platforms ARTE Concert, Creative, Info, Future or Cinema.

International[]

In Africa, ARTE is broadcast via satellite, cable, MMDS and ADSL in many other countries, via the digital service CanalSat Horizons. Many French-language ARTE programs are also broadcast in Canada on the Ici ARTV cable channel, partly owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (85%) and ARTE itself (15%). The Australian Special Broadcasting Service translates many ARTE programs into English for broadcast on its own television network and overseas.

Market share[]

ARTE usually has more viewers in France than in Germany. In 2015, its share of overall viewing was about 2.2% in France and about 1% in Germany. The differences can be put down to the different television markets in both countries. In France, ARTE was for a long time available to almost everyone as one of six analogue terrestrial channels. Relatively few French households received cable and satellite television, and the other terrestrial channels did not really compete with ARTE. Meanwhile, thanks to widespread roll-out of cable television, the vast majority of German households had access to about three dozen channels, including several from the public broadcasters with content similar to Arte.^[11] After the introduction of digital terrestrial television in France, ARTE's market share has fallen there, while it has been more or less flat in Germany.

Programming[]

• Abenteuer Arte – documentary series (1997–present)
• Arte Journal – information program (1992–present)
• Arte Reportage – current affairs program (2004–present)
• Arte Themenabend – special topics show
• A Very Secret Service – spy comedy (2015-2018)
• Bagdad, le bac sous les bombes / Die Jungs von der Bagdad-High – documentary film
• Die Nacht/La Nuit – late-night news
• Do Not Track, a 2015 Arte co-produced web documentary
• Durch die Nacht mit … (2002–present)
• Geo 360° (1999–present)
• Karambolage – a show about French/German customs (2004–present)
• Kurzschluss (2001–present)
• Metropolis (2001–present)
• Le dessous des cartes (Mit offenen Karten) – geopolitical documentary (1992–present)
• Tracks – music program (1997–present)
• WunderWelten (2005-2009)
• Venice New Year's Concert (2016–present)

Series[]

Online[]

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arte.tv[]

The platform arte.tv is ARTE’s streaming service. It can be accessed via browser and also via the ARTE app for smartphones and smart TVs. It is a curated media library where programmes are organised according to theme or genre. The programmes available online reflect the channel’s full range: feature films, documentaries and documentary cinema in the fields of social affairs, the arts, history, nature and science, serials, short and TV films, music and theatre performances, magazines, reportage and news, and Web-based formats.^[12]

ARTE first went digital under the name ARTE+7 in September 2007, when it was a replay service enabling viewers to watch ARTE programmes up to seven days after they were broadcast on television.^[13] Since 2012 arte.tv has also been available for streaming in Germany and France.^[14] Nowadays most of the programmes can be viewed from 5 am on the morning of broadcast and remain available on replay for up to 90 days, or sometimes longer. Some programmes are exclusively available online ahead of transmission. Most of the videos on arte.tv now consist entirely of Web-only content.^[15]

ARTE also has a podcast site, called Arte Radio.

ARTE in six languages[]

Since November 2015 ARTE has been making selected programme content – above all documentaries, magazines and live arts – available online with English and Spanish subtitles. Since November 2016 a selection of programmes have featured Polish subtitles.^[16] Italian subtitles have been provided since June 2018.^[17] This online service is co-funded by the European Commission, enabling 70% of Europeans to watch ARTE in their native language. ^[18]

ARTE Concert[]

ARTE Concert (until 2014 Arte Live Web^[19]) is a Web-based service that streams a selection of new and recent stage performances. These might be ARTE co-productions or recordings by ARTE partners, including not only major venues but also independent companies, festivals, and autonomous artists, producers and websites. It is aimed at a broad audience who enjoy opera, rock music, theatre, chamber music, jazz and electronic music. Apart from plays and concerts, the portal offers backstage reports, exclusive interviews with performers and key figures at the various festivals, and extracts from dress rehearsals. The livestreaming platform United We Stream was launched in 2020 in response to the closure of venues due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Every day DJs and concerts are streamed live from empty clubs to audiences around the world in partnership with a wide range of performers. ARTE Concert streams more than 900 live shows and replays a year.^[20]

Former themed platforms[]

Since 2017 the arte.tv platform has absorbed the themed platforms ARTE Creative, ARTE Future, ARTE Info and ARTE Cinema, which used to be separate units.^[21] ARTE Concert is still organised as a separate brand integrated into ARTE’s online architecture.

Logos[]

• 

  Arte's second and current logo since January 2, 1995.

• 

  Alternate version of the 1995 logo, used from January 3, 2004 until February 27, 2011.

• 

  Orange version of the 1995 logo, used from February 28, 2011 until March 24, 2017.

• 

  HD logo, used since June 10, 2010.

• 

  90° rotated version of the 1995 logo, used since March 25, 2017.

See also[]

• European Institutions in Strasbourg

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arte GEIE.

• ARTE Website
• ARTE Corporate Website
• ARTE Radio
• ARTE's non free VoD service

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