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I don't know if this was already mentioned but I just saw it mentioned in the French-speaking !utilisereuropeen@jlai.lu (Use European) community and I thought it was worth talking about it, here too. So, if you don't know about ARTE TV yet, here is my take on it:

ARTE TV is the European culture TV channel (free and on demand). It is a 32 years old German-French-European public TV which is rather unique.

Unique, because there is barely any ads to watch (and the rare ones are a somewhat very recent addition, hopefully they won't add anymore).

Unique, because like its name may suggests, this TV main focus (main, not exclusive) is on art, culture and creation. They regularly air concerts (contemporary, pop, rock, orchestral/classical,...), dance festivals, theater, opera, and so on. They also have series, movies, documentaries in a wide selection of genres. Podcasts, news,... The content is available in French and/or in German. Foreign movies are often aired or streamed in their original language, with subtitles.

Unique because, being a public television it's free access. There is no subscription, no login required either. It's entirely paid by French and German tax-payers money (you're welcome)

Is it worth it?

My spouse and I have not owned a TV for more than twenty years and ARTE could easily be the one reason we would want to own one but we don't even have to since a lot of their content is available through their website/Replay: arte.tv (not all content is available. Many film won't but a lot still are).

In recent years, we have noticed their documentaries morphing into the over-dramatized docu-fiction types, something my spouse and I consider of little value compared to more traditional type of documentaries (a lot more time is being spend on dramatization itself instead of actual information sharing/discussion). Therefore, we barely watch any of their new type of documentaries but if you're more into that type of content than we are, I would say it's probably worth checking.

They regularly have an excellent selection of films. Like, really. Things other TV would seldom dare to air. and like I said, there is no fucking ad-breaks either.

I don't know how easy it is to access ARTE from foreign countries, but worse case one would need to use a VPN and pick a French/German address, even probably any European address would do.

https://www.arte.tv/en/

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

In Germany public broadcasting channels have a teaching mandate. And Arte is the only channel that takes it seriously. It can teach you about literally everything. Folk music, avant-garde, hentai, politics, horror, children's movies, heavy metal, hardcore porn, artistic porn, documentaries on the dangers of porn, comedies, history, science, etc

Seriously, watch long enough and you will see something from every category humanity has to offer.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

We also have ARD:alpha, who sometimes shows old "Telekoleg" seminars or Bob Ross having "pretty little accidents", 3sat and Phoenix, but arte is gold standard.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 3 points 6 hours ago

In Germany public broadcasting channels have a teaching mandate. And Arte is the only channel that takes it seriously.

Not taking that teaching job seriously? That would never happen in France /s

It's such a pity... but it may also be considered a truthful mirror of what our societies really value the most, I suppose. Which would not be much flattering.