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Explore 30 years of ARTE

ARTE celebrates its 30th birthday!
European culture at your fingertips

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ARTE, the European culture channel, springs from a French-German partnership based on the signature of an Interstate Treaty in 1990. It became a reality for French and German audiences when broadcasting began on 30 May 1992.

Today, still faithful to its values of quality, creativity and diversity, ARTE offers content in six languages on a large number of platforms.

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ARTE
supports

creation

ARTE is a cultural powerhouse, offering unique films, series, documentaries, concerts and magazine shows, news and analysis.
Always on the lookout for excellence, the channel supports creators from all horizons and encourages bold narratives and unusual perspectives.

Cinema in the spotlight...

Annette by Leos Carax
A winner at the Cannes Festival and at the Césars 2022.

...with co-productions that stellar-stint at international festivals.

Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade
German Film Prize 2017, Berlin.

Pure fiction: series and dramas

The Series "In Therapy" by Éric Toledano & Olivier Nakache, with a prestigious cast.

Discovery of nature and the mysteries of science

ARTE opens the doors of knowledge wide to all the curious.

Art and its many trends

Cultural documentaries and magazines.

ARTE Concert

All kinds of shows and music with ARTE Concert.

Information, investigation and history

ARTE takes the pulse of the world through reports and documentaries, debates and a daily news programme with a bi-national newsdesk.

Unique
and innovative formats –
some examples:

Beethoven Day 2021

A European tour to celebrate the great composer with broadcasts of Beethoven's nine symphonies from nine European cities.

24h Europe - The Next Generation

A documentary in real time that followed young people across Europe. ARTE launched this unique format in 2009 with "24h Berlin" in 2009, followed by "24h Jerusalem" in 2014.

Clash of Futures 1918-1939

A portrait of the troubled interwar period through 13 personal stories; a documentary series produced in Franco-German collaboration with other European partners.

Notes on Blindness

A narrative experience in VR based on the audio diary of writer John Hull who lost his sight in 1983. The narration and the graphic universe offer an immersion in the experience of blindness.

Polar Sea 360°

The world’s first 360° documentary: an extraordinary interactive journey through the Arctic.
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Our history

Discover 30 years of history: from the start of a Franco-German friendship project to the creation of a European culture channel.

1990

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The Interstate Treaty signed by France and Germany on 2 October 1990 lays the foundation for the future channel.

30 May 1992

Launch of ARTE in Strasbourg
The channel becomes a reality for German and French audiences with evening broadcasts.

1996

Broadcast of the first films in audiodescription and launch of the website.

2001

Introducing daytime broadcasting.

2002

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Launch of ARTE Radio, a web radio and podcast pioneer, in France

2003

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Inauguration of the new headquarters in the European district of Strasbourg on the border between France and Germany

2005

Digital television transmission 24/7 in HD, with all programmes in HD from 2008.

2007

Digital pioneer: Development of ARTE+7 catch-up service, production of the first web-documentary, "Gaza-Sderot, Life in Spite of Everything" in 2008.

2009

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Launch of ARTE Live Web - now ARTE Concert – a web platform dedicated to the performing arts.

2010

ARTE on all screens: arrival of replay in 2010 on connected TVs and mobile devices. Livestream in 2012.

2015

ARTE in 6 languages
Resolutely European, ARTE has been offering programmes on its digital properties with subtitles in English and Spanish since 2015, Polish since 2016 and Italian since 2018.

2017

Development of new forms of narration for social media channels: "Été" for Instagram (2017), "FAQ" for Snapchat (2019), "Jour de Play" for Twitch (2021) and "Viens on danse" for TikTok (2021).

2019

Digital audiences soars to over 1 billion video views.

2022

On the road to the future: with a great diversity of content on air, on the arte.tv platform and on social media, accumulating an average of 150+ million video views per month.
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Focus on Europe

Over and above its original French-German DNA, ARTE has a European vision.
Thanks to partnerships established with numerous European channels, it transcends national viewpoints and presents all the rich diversity of European culture.

RTÉ
Ireland
RTBF
Belgium
ORF
Austria
ERT
Greece
YLE
Finland
Rai COM
Italy
Film Fund
Luxembourg
SSR SRG
Switzerland
ČT
Czech Republic

6 LANGUAGES TO CHOOSE FROM
To cater for a large and growing audience, a selection of ARTE's digital offer – many documentaries, concerts and films –, is subtitled in English, Spanish, Polish and Italian.

70 %
of Europeans can watch ARTE in their own language.
Several digital offerings with European partners further enrich the menu of content available across Europe, in six languages:

ArteKino

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ArteKino introduces young auteur films as well as heritage films that have left their mark on European cinema.

ARTE Opera Season

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** The ARTE Opera Season** presents the full spectrum of opera, live and subtitled, from some 20 opera houses across Europe.

The European Collection

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The European Collection gives access to a joint selection of documentaries and reports on current affairs, politics and society from five European public channels.
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Assuming our

Responsibilities

As a public broadcaster dedicated to culture, ARTE has particular responsibilities to citizens. In both our programmes and our corporate culture we strive to be exemplary in terms of gender parity, diversity and social and environmental responsibility.

Accessibility
Sustainability
Equality

Accessibility

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arte.tv platform interfaces and applications are largely accessible and many programmes are available with subtitles and audio-description.

Sustainable development

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ARTE has an ambitious environmental policy. In 2016 the Strasbourg headquarters obtained ISO 50001 certification, a first for a television channel in France. Carbon audits are conducted in Strasbourg and at the French offices in Issy-les-Moulineaux. 100 % of electricity is sourced from renewable energies on both sites.

Gender equality

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While gender equality has not yet been fully achieved in the media industry, ARTE implements an active policy to increase the presence of women in front of and behind the camera and in decision-making bodies.

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