Animaux is a French television channel

Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...

 themed on the animal world.

History of the channel

Created in April 1996, AB Animaux was a channel which showed animal documentaries. In 1998, it was renamed as Animaux and changed the types of programmes it showed.

After rumours of the sale of the channel by AB Group at the start of 2006, the channel eventually ended up being exclusively shown on CanalSat

CanalSat

CanalSat is a French digital satellite and DSL pay television service. It is owned by Vivendi with a 65% share, minority shareholders are Lagardère , TF1 and M6...

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Owners

President : Jean-Michel Fava
Programme director : Richard Maroko
Marketing & Business Development director: Gregg Bywalski

Budget

Animaux is run by AB Sat

AB Sat

AB Sat is a package of digital channels offered by the satellite companies Hot Bird and Astra and marketed in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. The channels are all run by the cable operators and certain networks ADSL. ABSAT has a stake in pay channel TNT and of two services in free TNT...

 SA with a budget of €24 million, 100 % provided by AB Group.

Programmes

The channel specialises in the environment, and principally shows animal documentaries. It has also introduced regular reports on the protection of flora

Flora

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 and fauna

Fauna

Fauna or faunæ is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora.Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess shale fauna"...

. Allain Bougrain-Dubourg joined the channel as a director in 2005.

Programmes

• Territoires Sauvages : Discovery of inexpored territories and the animals who live there (Tuesday 17:55)
• Des Animaux et des Hommes : Stories about the relationship between man and animal (Saturday 18:25) *Totalement Fauve : Big game, such as lion, puma, tiger and leopard, (Thursday 17:55).
• A Vol d'Oiseau : Programme based on ornithology (Friday 17:55).
• Animaux en Danger : Programme which deals with saving the planet, (Sunday 19:00).
• Histoires d'eaux : The story of animal life in fresh and salt water (Wednesday 17:55).

Broadcast

Animaux was originally only shown via AB Sat

AB Sat

AB Sat is a package of digital channels offered by the satellite companies Hot Bird and Astra and marketed in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. The channels are all run by the cable operators and certain networks ADSL. ABSAT has a stake in pay channel TNT and of two services in free TNT...

, but is now available on a contract on French, Monacan, Belgian and Swiss cable

Cable television

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 and via the Nouveau Canalsat satellite package available on the new AB Group only available to customers with ADSL packages.

External links

Programmes on Animaux