France 3
France 3 région Sub-region Number of opt-outs Bulletins News bureaux
Alsace 2 Strasbourg Deux-Rives , Haute-Alsace Strasbourg , Mulhouse
Aquitaine 4 Pays Basque , Pau Sud-Aquitaine , Périgords , Bordeaux Métropole Bayonne , Pau , Périgueux , Bordeaux
Bourgogne Franche-Comté Burgundy 0
Bourgogne Franche-Comté Franche-Comté 0
Limousin Poitou-Charentes Limousin 2 Limoges , Pays de Corrèze Limoges , Brive-la-Gaillarde
Limousin Poitou-Charentes Poitou-Charentes 1 Atlantique La Rochelle
Lorraine Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine 2 Metz , Nancy Metz , Nancy
Lorraine Champagne-Ardenne Champagne-Ardenne 1 Champagne Info Reims
Méditerranée Provence-Alpes 2 Marseille , Var Marseille , Toulon
Méditerranée Côte d'Azur 1 Nice Nice
Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie Nord Pas-de-Calais 2 Côte d'Opale , Lille Métropole Boulogne-sur-Mer , Lille
Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie Picardie 0
Normandie Upper Normandy 2 Baie-de-Seine , Rouen Métropole Le Havre , Rouen
Normandie Lower Normandy 2 7 jours en Cotentin ( weekly ) , Caen Métropole Cherbourg , Caen
Ouest Pays de la Loire 2 Estuaire , Maine Nantes , Le Mans
Ouest Brittany 2 Upper Brittany , Iroise Rennes , Brest
Paris Île-de-France Centre Paris Île-de-France 0
Paris Île-de-France Centre Centre 3 Orléans Loiret , Touraine Val de Loire , Berry Orléans , Tours , Déols
Rhône-Alpes Auvergne Rhône-Alpes 2 Saint-Étienne , Grand Lyon Saint-Étienne , Lyon
Regional structure -- 19|20 local opt-outs
Within the main 19|20 programming block and depending on where the viewer receives France 3 via terrestrial transmitters , local opt-out bulletins ( some live , some pre-recorded ) concentrating on specific communautés are aired . The ten-minute opts air at around 1845 CET before the main regional news .
France 3 (pronounced [fʁɑ̃s tʁwɑ]) is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5, and France Ô. It is made up of a network of regional television services providing daily news programming and around ten hours of entertainment and cultural programming produced for and about the regions each week. The channel also broadcasts various national programming and national and international news from Paris. The channel was known as FR3 or France Régions 3 until its official replacement by France 3 in September 1992. Prior to the establishment of Outre-Mer 1ère, it also broadcast to the various French overseas territories.