Mayotte La Première

Mayotte La Première

Country	Mayotte, France
Network	La Première
Headquarters	Mayotte
Programming
Language(s)	French
Picture format	576i SDTV
Ownership
Owner	France Télévisions
History
Launched	21 December 1986 (1986-12-21)
Former names	RFO Mayotte (1986–1988) RFO 1 Mayotte (1988–1999) Télé Mayotte (1999–2010) Mayotte 1^re (2010–2018)
Links
Website	la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/mayotte/
Availability
Terrestrial
TNT	Channel 1

Mayotte La Première (French pronunciation: [majɔt la pʁəmjɛʁ], lit. 'Mayotte the First'), is a French overseas departmental free-to-air television channel available in the department of Mayotte. It is operated by the overseas unit of France Télévisions.

History

RFO Mayotte made its first broadcast on December 21, 1986, at 7pm, with a ceremony attended by Lucette Michaux-Chevry from Guadeloupe and French president of the time Jacques Chirac. The station's infrastructure started with three videotape machines, a transmitter and a relayer. After the ceremony, the mainland variety show Champs Elysées was broadcast.^[1] Live television news only started on April 10, 1989.^[2]

The audiovisual reform law no. 2004-669 of July 9, 2004 integrates the program company Réseau France Outre-mer into the public audiovisual group France Télévisions on which Télé Mayotte has since depended. Its president, Rémy Pflimlin, announces the change of name from Réseau France Outre-mer to Réseau Outre-Mer 1re to adapt to the launch of DTT in the French overseas regions.^[3][4][5] All of the network's television channels changed their name on November 30, 2010, when TNT started and Télé Nouvelle-Calédonie thus became Nouvelle-Calédonie 1re. The name change refers to the leading position of this channel in its broadcast territory as well as its first place on the remote control and its numbering in line with the other channels of the France Télévisions group.

The channel started HD broadcasts on satellite on January 15, 2020, as part of a pact for the conversion of the overseas operations to the technology,^[6] and later on terrestrial television on September 8, 2020.^[7].

References

1. "Archives d'Outre-mer : il y a 35 ans, l'arrivée de la télévision à Mayotte". Mayotte La Prèmiere (in French). December 19, 2021.
2. "Mayotte 1ère fête ses 30 ans de Télé". FranceTVPro (in French). December 21, 2016.
3. Pietri, Charles (26 November 2010). "TNT en outre-mer : lancement le 30 novembre 2010". Degroup News. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
4. "Une TNT au rabais pour les territoires d'outre-mer". 01net. 1 December 2010. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
5. "RFO passe la Première". 6 April 2020.
6. "Pacte pour la visibilité des Outre-mer Bascule des chaînes France Télévisions en HD". www.francetvpro.fr (in French). Retrieved 31 January 2020.
7. "Les chaînes France Télévisions passent en HD sur la TNT en Outre-mer". Martinique la 1ère (in French). Retrieved 29 September 2020.