France 24 iPhone® Application Wins at the 2009 Media Excellence Award

France 24 has been named winner of the “Most Innovative Technology” category at the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) Media Excellence Awards thanks to the «FRANCE 24 LIVE » application, specially developed for the iPhone®.

For Stanislas Leridon, Internet and New Media Director of FRANCE 24, “this prize reflects the tremendous success of the application which has been downloaded more than 600,000 times across the world. It confirms our ambition to go even further in the quest for tools that allow total convergence between the television, the Internet and mobile phones”

France 24 was the first international news channel to broadcast live and in three languages for free on the iPhone®. This service, available worldwide, was developed in partnership with the mobile television and video distribution platform Mobiclip.

Honoured amongst the world’s leading international television and radio media at the ceremony in London, France 24 is established as a media of reference that puts multimedia at the heart of its strategy.