France 3 Normandie

France 3 Normandie is the Normandy regional station of France 3, the regional television network operated by France Télévisions. It serves the five departments of Normandy: Seine-Maritime, Eure, Calvados, Manche and Orne. Its role is to provide public-service television rooted in local life, with editorial coverage designed around the region's geography, institutions, communities and cultural events. The station is headquartered in Rouen, which also hosts its principal broadcasting centre and studios. A second major local centre is based in Caen. These two centres give the station a dual editorial and production structure that reflects the historical and geographic divisions within Normandy. The Rouen centre serves Seine-Maritime and Eure, while the Caen centre covers Calvados, Manche and Orne. Each centre prepares its own editions of the network's principal regional news programmes, including Ici Matin, Ici 12/13 and Ici 19/20. This arrangement allows news bulletins to be tailored to audiences in eastern and western Normandy rather than treating the region as a single undifferentiated market. France 3 Normandie also operates a local production presence in Le Havre. A team based there produces Baie de Seine, a local news bulletin focused on Le Havre and the surrounding area. Additional reporting resources are distributed across the region. Bureaus in Dieppe and Évreux are associated with the Rouen editorial centre, while bureaus in Alençon, Avranches and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin are managed from Caen. This network supports the highly decentralized reporting model for which France 3's regional stations are known. Beyond news, the station broadcasts locally produced entertainment programmes on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings, a political programme on Sundays, and a magazine programme twice each month after the evening prime-time schedule. Its programming mix therefore combines daily information, regional debate, feature reporting and lighter local content. The station's digital presence extends its regional news and video offer through the France 3 regional website operated within the France Télévisions and franceinfo ecosystem. France 3 Normandie is not a separately listed company and operates as part of the French public broadcasting group rather than as an independent commercial broadcaster. Its distinctive value is geographic proximity: the station connects national public-service broadcasting infrastructure with local reporting teams, studios and editorial editions across Normandy.

France 3 Normandie is part of the regional station network associated with France 3 and France Télévisions. The available reference material does not establish a single founding date for the Normandy station, but describes its contemporary organization as a regional public-service broadcaster with two principal production centres. The station's Rouen centre functions as its headquarters and main broadcasting base. It serves Seine-Maritime and Eure and maintains television production facilities for regional news and other local programmes. The Caen centre serves Calvados, Manche and Orne. The two centres produce distinct regional editions of the main France 3 news schedule, including Ici Matin, Ici 12/13 and Ici 19/20. This split enables editorial teams to prioritize stories relevant to their respective parts of Normandy. The station's structure also includes a local production team in Le Havre, which produces Baie de Seine for the city and the surrounding area. Its broader reporting network includes bureaus and crews in Dieppe, Évreux, Alençon, Avranches and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. The Dieppe and Évreux operations are managed through Rouen, while the Alençon, Avranches and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin operations are managed through Caen. This arrangement combines centralized editorial coordination with geographically distributed reporting. France 3 Normandie has developed a schedule broader than daily news. It produces morning entertainment programmes on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, a Sunday political programme, and a magazine broadcast twice each month after prime time. These programmes complement the station's core public-service mission by providing regional discussion, features and cultural or community coverage. The station's present identity is therefore defined less by a standalone corporate history than by its role within France 3's decentralized public broadcasting model. It uses France Télévisions infrastructure while maintaining local studios, editorial teams and reporting bureaus across Normandy. Its website provides an additional digital outlet for regional articles and video, linking the linear television service with the wider franceinfo and France 3 regional ecosystem.

• Rouen headquarters and broadcasting centre

  [1]France 3 Normandieen.wikipedia.org

  Rouen serves as the station's headquarters and principal broadcasting centre, with responsibility for coverage of Seine-Maritime and Eure.

• Caen broadcasting centre

  [1]France 3 Normandieen.wikipedia.org

  A second broadcasting centre in Caen provides production facilities and editorial coverage for Calvados, Manche and Orne.

• Baie de Seine local bulletin

  [1]France 3 Normandieen.wikipedia.org

  A Le Havre-based team produces Baie de Seine, a local news programme serving Le Havre and the surrounding Seine Bay area.

Regional public-service television focused on local news, civic information, regional identity and proximity reporting.

• Regional morning news

  Ici Matin

  France 3 Normandie broadcasts distinct regional editions of the morning news programme from the Rouen and Caen editorial centres. The split supports local reporting and allows the eastern and western parts of Normandy to receive editions shaped by their own news priorities.

• Regional midday news

  Ici 12/13

  The station's midday regional news service is produced in separate Rouen and Caen editions. It provides local and regional information for the departments assigned to each production centre within Normandy.

• Regional evening news

  Ici 19/20

  The evening regional news service is prepared in distinct Rouen and Caen editions. It is a central part of France 3 Normandie's daily public-service offer and draws on the station's network of local bureaus and reporting crews.

• Local news bulletin

  Baie de Seine

  Baie de Seine is a local news bulletin produced by a team based in Le Havre. Its coverage focuses on Le Havre and the surrounding area, adding a more geographically concentrated service to the station's wider Normandy news output.

• Entertainment

  Regional entertainment programmes

  France 3 Normandie produces entertainment programming scheduled on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings. These programmes extend the station's schedule beyond news and provide locally oriented television for audiences across the region.

• Politics and public affairs

  Regional political programme

  A political programme is broadcast on Sundays, giving the station a regular format for regional political discussion and public-affairs coverage.

1. 1France 3 Normandieen.wikipedia.org
2. 2France 3 Normandie regional websitefrance3-regions.franceinfo.fr