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Country | France |
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Programming | |
Language(s) | French |
Picture format | 16:9 (576i, SDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Altice Média |
Parent | Altice France |
Sister channels | BFM TV BFM Paris Île-de-France RMC Découverte RMC Story RMC Sport Tech & Co |
History | |
Launched | 1991 |
Links | |
Website | www |
BFM Business (called BFM for Business FM until April 2009 and BFM Radio until November 2010) is France's first business news channel. It's also the most-listened to business news radio station in this country. From November 2010, BFM Business is a national economic television station offering regional variation in Ile-de-France. That regional variation was shut down in November 2016 and replaced by a local news channel, BFM Paris.
Founded in 1991 (radio), it has been part of Altice Média group since 2021.
The chief executive officer is Guillaume Dubois and the assistant CEO is Nicolas Lespaule.
BFM Business is held by the French group Altice Média which also owns the national news channel BFM TV and RMC radio station.
From November 2010 to November 2016, the television station was broadcast in 16:9 format on TNT in the Paris region (channel 24). It is still available by satellite in Western Europe and North Africa via Eutelsat 5 West A, available through Fransat, BiS TV and TV Orange-labeled or not.
By land line in France, the channel is available via ADSL, SD streams, Internet and IPTV, through most operators. It is also distributed by a number of cable networks.
The website offers live streaming and a variety of podcasts (also available on the iTunes Store). BFM is also available on most radios sold in the Internet commerce, streaming.