Watch and analyze television

Watch TV with our selection of news channel sites or the TV kiosk.

The Internet offer

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On one of the internet stations available for your use in the library or on your smartphone, tablet or laptop connected to the Bpi internet network, you can also watch several news or cultural channels on the Internet:

  • The programmes of France TV.
  • Cultural contents via Arte.tv.
  • The Arte Reportage channel, more orientated towards European and International current affairs, provides exclusive programmes, whereas the Arte news channel give access to features, web-reportages or programmes.
  • English news can also be watched over the Internet through, the BBC for example.
  • And many French and international news channels, freely accessible on the 4 kiosks in the Accueil area:
    • Franceinfo TV, French national and public 24-hour news channel
    • ABC 7, local Washington DC channel live
    • RTVE 24h, 24-hour news channel of Spanish national television
    • La7, Italian non-stop news channel
    • RTP internacional, Portuguese national channel in international version
    • Das Erste, German public news channel
    • CCTV, Chinese live television
    • TV5 Monde, French-language general-interest channel
    • France 24, French 24-hour international news channel
    • Africa 24, French-language 24-hour international news channel
    • Euronews, originally public, multilingual pan-European 24-hour international news channel

Recordings of cultural events

Since it was launched in 2006, the Replay of the Bpi makes the cultural events organised by the Bpi available to Internet users. These cover diverse subjects: media, ecology, film, literature, science…, with contributions from Mathias Énard, Serge Tisseron, Edgar Morin, Emmanuel Bigand, Riad Sattouf among others… 

Masterclasses, conferences, debates, interviews or professional study days…, more than 650 video recordings and 4000 audio recordings are currently available. The oldest recording is from 1977, but the archive collection really started to be constituted from 2001. More than 50 events are put online each year. These recordings are available through streaming or download from the website replay.bpi.fr, and on the Bpi YouTube channel.

Profession reporter cycle

You’ll be able to (re)watch the Profession Reporter series, where news, text and image professionals come to explain their profession and debate with the public; to tell their stories, but also to respond to the questions, doubts and suspicions that sometimes emerge about their ability to report objectively and independently.

Television collection

The library has a large collection of books on television. You’ll find documents on the history of television, in France and around the world, as well as key programs.

Publié le 30/01/2022 - CC BY-SA 4.0