Group organisation and activities

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Profile

TF1 is France’s leading mainstream television channel. It is also an integrated media Group that has build up a range of activities in high-growth segments alongside its core business. Its corporate mission is to inform and entertain.

In freeview television, the Group is present with:
- TF1, the channel for major events, ranked no. 1 in France;
- TMC, since July 1, 2010, the leading digital terrestrial channel and the fifth nationwide, and NT1.

It is also present in pay TV, with:
- Eurosport, the leading pan-European sports broadcasting platform, received by 123 million households;
- TV Breizh, the no 1 channel cable / satellite channel;
- the Discovery Division (Ushuaïa TV, Histoire, Stylía), which sets the standard for multi-channel offerings in France;
- LCI, a news and current event analysis channel;
- TF6 and Série Club, owned 50% with M6.

Since 1987, when it was privatised and became part of the Bouygues Group, TF1 has created new, high added-value activities in its main business of producing and broadcasting TV programmes.

The TF1 group’s activities now span the entire value chain in the broadcasting industry:

• upstream:
  - audiovisual and film production,
  - acquisition and trading of audiovisual rights,
  - movie distribution;
• downstream:
  - sale of commercials,
  - publishing of DVDs and music CDs.

TF1 has also created a broad range of merchandising spin-offs from its main channel, covering home shopping and e-tailing, catch-up TV and video on demand content, licences, musicals and board games.

Harnessing the growth of the Internet and new technologies, TF1 produces, develops and publishes new interactive content and services for the Web, smart phones, tablet computers and internet TV.

Going forward, the TF1 group’s strategy will be to combine the broad and effective reach of mass media with the closeness of digital media, offering compelling content and seizing opportunities to reach audiences everywhere thanks to the onward march of technology.