Just a heads up on this, they've been talking a lot about this in Europe:
New French news channel (on par with BBC and CNN), launched today: [URL]http://www.france24.com/live/[/URL] The story: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6215170.stm[/URL]
I agree with the bbc article, hard to compete with the current players + I am sceptic that it will stay away from the french gov's positions [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]which wouldn't be good[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT]