Nolife (TV channel)
Encyclopedia
Nolife is a French
TV network
. It describes itself as the TV "for geeks, nerds and otakus". It mainly deals with videogames, Japanese culture, technology and various other topics. Its catchline is "Il n'y a pas que la vraie vie dans la vie" (which could be translated as "Life is more than real life only").
Nolife was originally created as an independent TV network by Sébastien Ruchet and Alexandre Pilot, both of them having previously worked for other French TV channels through their production company Pocket Shami. Later, Alexandre Pilot said that they wanted to create Nolife because a lot of their projects were refused by other TV networks. They took advantage of the possibility to open a TV channel for a vey limited cost (a few hundred Euros per month) on the IPTV network of Free.
In 2008, despite being well known in the videogame and anime/manga French audience, Nolife went through major financial difficulties and looked for new investors. Then a company they previously worked with, Ankama Games
, offered to massively invest into Nolife without taking control over the company. This was announced during a fake farewell show on 13 June 2008, less than two weeks after the first birthday of the channel (the audience wasn't aware it was fake).
As of September 2009 the audience share is unknown, but an official Médiamétrie
survey said that 12% of the people receiving TV by cable and satellite was interested in receiving this channel.
Despite those results, Nolife announced in June of the same year that the channel won't be broadcast on CanalSat
(almost monopolistic on the French satellite market) due to huge transmission costs, nor on the French cable network Numericable
(also almost monopolistic) for "technical reasons". A member of Nolife explained that this actually cut off advertising incomes for Nolife because of a market lock-down: Médiamétrie
is the only recognized source for audience figures but it doesn't evaluate DSL IPTV audience despite the fact that at least as much French households receive IPTV as Satellite TV.
Consequently, following a business model
used in open source software, a pay catch-up TV
service named Nolife Online was launched on 26th, August 2009 on the main site of Nolife. It hosts the archive of most of the shows of Nolife except TV series, anime
and J-music
-related shows. It is available worldwide while the French IPTV channel remains free of charge.
video clips between the regular shows.
It also hosts many sequences that are individual shows, repeated between main shows :
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
TV network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
. It describes itself as the TV "for geeks, nerds and otakus". It mainly deals with videogames, Japanese culture, technology and various other topics. Its catchline is "Il n'y a pas que la vraie vie dans la vie" (which could be translated as "Life is more than real life only").
Nolife was originally created as an independent TV network by Sébastien Ruchet and Alexandre Pilot, both of them having previously worked for other French TV channels through their production company Pocket Shami. Later, Alexandre Pilot said that they wanted to create Nolife because a lot of their projects were refused by other TV networks. They took advantage of the possibility to open a TV channel for a vey limited cost (a few hundred Euros per month) on the IPTV network of Free.
In 2008, despite being well known in the videogame and anime/manga French audience, Nolife went through major financial difficulties and looked for new investors. Then a company they previously worked with, Ankama Games
Ankama Games
Ankama Games is a French company, focused on the design of Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games . The company was founded by Anthony Roux, Camille Chafer, and Emmanuel "Manu" Darras....
, offered to massively invest into Nolife without taking control over the company. This was announced during a fake farewell show on 13 June 2008, less than two weeks after the first birthday of the channel (the audience wasn't aware it was fake).
As of September 2009 the audience share is unknown, but an official Médiamétrie
Médiamétrie
-External links: http://www.mediametrie.fr/ http://www.mediametrie.com/...
survey said that 12% of the people receiving TV by cable and satellite was interested in receiving this channel.
Despite those results, Nolife announced in June of the same year that the channel won't be broadcast 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...
(almost monopolistic on the French satellite market) due to huge transmission costs, nor on the French cable network Numericable
Numericable
Numericable is a British-American-Luxembourgian owned cable television operator operating in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, currently proposing standard quadruple-play services .- History :...
(also almost monopolistic) for "technical reasons". A member of Nolife explained that this actually cut off advertising incomes for Nolife because of a market lock-down: Médiamétrie
Médiamétrie
-External links: http://www.mediametrie.fr/ http://www.mediametrie.com/...
is the only recognized source for audience figures but it doesn't evaluate DSL IPTV audience despite the fact that at least as much French households receive IPTV as Satellite TV.
Consequently, following a business model
Business model
A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value...
used in open source software, a pay catch-up TV
Internet television
Internet television is the digital distribution of television content via the Internet...
service named Nolife Online was launched on 26th, August 2009 on the main site of Nolife. It hosts the archive of most of the shows of Nolife except TV series, anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
and J-music
Music of Japan
The music of Japan includes a wide array of performers in distinct styles both traditional and modern. The word for music in Japanese is 音楽 , combining the kanji 音 with the kanji 楽...
-related shows. It is available worldwide while the French IPTV channel remains free of charge.
Programming
Nolife broadcast a lot of J-musicMusic of Japan
The music of Japan includes a wide array of performers in distinct styles both traditional and modern. The word for music in Japanese is 音楽 , combining the kanji 音 with the kanji 楽...
video clips between the regular shows.
Daily
101% is the main daily show with news, game reviews and reports (20-30mn).It also hosts many sequences that are individual shows, repeated between main shows :
- Hidden Palace - Hidden or unknown facts about a video game or a series of video games.
- La minute du geek - A geek corrects usual misconceptions
- Mon souvenir - A guest tells the story of his most striking memory about video games
- Oscillations - A real musicological analysisMusicologyMusicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
of the music of a video game - OTO - News of the J-music world
- Retro & Magic (RAM) - Video game history
- Temps Perdu - Reviews of free online games to "earn more by losing time at work"
- Tôkyô Café - Everything about Japanese culture
- Debug Mode - Making of Nolife
Weekly
- J-Top - Chart of the most preferred J-music video clips on Nolife.
- Chez Marcus - Hosted by Marcus (Marc Lacombe), a well-known videogames journalist in France, who plays one of his favourite games at home.
- Ami Ami Idol : Hello! France - Reports and clips of idolsJapanese idolIn Japanese culture, are media personalities in their teens and early twenties who are considered particularly attractive or cute and who will, for a period ranging from several months to a few years, regularly appear in the mass media, e.g...
, made in cooperation with the Hello! ProjectHello! Projectis the umbrella name for all female idol Japanese pop recording artists collective that are under contract with the Up-Front Group. The "mothership" group of Hello! Project is the super-group Morning Musume. Hello! Project's current leader is Risa Niigaki, the leader of Morning Musume...
. - Kira Kira Japon - A Japanese show produced for Nolife by DLE Inc., including many original sequences and the series Eagle TalonEagle Talon (anime)is a Japanese Flash animation created by Shimane Prefecture resident Ryo Ono.The show is distributed on the Internet via video-sharing websites by DLE and debuted on March 16, 2007. The character Yoshida has also been featured as a Voiceroid product.-Story:Eagle Talon is a secret society based in...
. Hosted by Asami TANO. - Roadstrip - Interviews of comic artists (of any nationality).
- Temps Réel - DemosDemo (computer programming)A demo is a non-interactive multimedia presentation made within the computer subculture known as the demoscene. Demogroups create demos to demonstrate their abilities in programming, music, drawing, and 3D modeling...
and reports of the demosceneDemosceneThe demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer...
.
Monthly
- Classés 18+ - Previews, reviews and news about games that are rated 18+Pan European Game InformationPan European Game Information is a European video game content rating system established to help European parents make informed decisions on buying computer games with logos on games boxes. It was developed by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe and came into use in April 2003; it...
. By law, such games cannot be shown or discussed before 22:30 on French TV, so Classés 18+ is broadcast only by night and is advertised for viewers aged 16+. (2 hours) - Superplay Ultimate - A superplayer comes to the show and comments a record of one of his play on the game of his choice, like a score attack or a speedrunSpeedrunA speedrun is a play-through, or recording thereof, of a whole video game or a selected part of it performed with the intent of completing it as fast as possible, optionally under certain prerequisites, mainly for the purposes of entertainment and competition...
- OTO EX - extended version of OTO
- OTO Play - Reviews of original soundtracks of videogames
- Format Court - Short films and interviews of their creators
- The Incredible Horror Show - Reviews of horror movies and reports
- EXP - Reviews of role-playing gamesRole-playing game (video games)Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...
- Hall of Shame - Reviews of the worst videogames ever made
Anime
Anime are aired in Japanese with French subtitles.- Animation Runner KuromiAnimation Runner Kuromiis an OVA Anime film produced by Yumeta Co; part 1 in 2001 and part 2 in 2004. It is a parody of the anime production business itself. It was released on DVD in North America by Central Park Media.-Animation Runner Kuromi 1:...
- Chikyuu shōjo Arjuna
- City HunterCity Hunteris a hardboiled manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo, published by Shueisha in the Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1985 to 1991. The manga was adapted into an animated television series by Sunrise Studios in 1987...
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: Million Dollar Conspiracy - Rurōni KenshinRurouni Kenshin, also known as Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai X, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting takes place during the early Meiji period in Japan. The story is about a fictional assassin named Himura Kenshin, from the Bakumatsu who becomes a wanderer to...
: Tsuiokuhen - Rurōni KenshinRurouni Kenshin, also known as Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai X, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The fictional setting takes place during the early Meiji period in Japan. The story is about a fictional assassin named Himura Kenshin, from the Bakumatsu who becomes a wanderer to...
: Seisōhen - Haibane RenmeiHaibane Renmeiis a 13-episode anime series based on the work of Yoshitoshi ABe. It began as an original dōjinshi comic series, , but this was quickly superseded by the anime and was never completed...
- BerserkBerserk (manga)is a manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura. Set in a medieval Europe-inspired world, the story centers around the characters of Guts, an orphaned mercenary, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the...
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