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Télévision (histoires secrètes)

1996-04-20 · 70 min / episode · ★ 10.0

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The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known history of two audiovisual decades that have shaped today's television. To explain from the break up of the French broadcasting service ORTF, in 1974, to the creation of Arte, via the birth of Canal+, the life and death of La Cinq and the privatization of TF1 — the succession of political, economic and cultural decisions that have shaped what is known as the “PAF” (French Audiovisual Landscape).

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Gaumont Télévision, France•3
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France
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Ended

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Jean-Claude DauphinJean-Claude DauphinNarrator (voice)

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