Cinaps TV

Cinaps TV was a French television channel dedicated to culture and knowledge, broadcast on digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the Île-de-France region between 2008 and 2018. It was conceived by a group of scientists and artists who wanted to create a television service whose purpose was to transmit knowledge and cultivate curiosity, explicitly rejecting the ratings-driven logic of mainstream broadcasting. The project was selected by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) during the call for applications for DTT in Île-de-France, and in 2008 it received authorization to broadcast 28 hours and 30 minutes per week on channel 21 of the Île-de-France DTT lineup. The channel positioned itself as an alternative to what it described as an audiovisual void neglecting scientific advances — quantum physics, cognitive psychology, genetics, nanotechnology — and major contemporary issues such as biodiversity protection and renewable energy. Its programming and mission centered on the meaning of life and human action in relation to cultural, scientific and philosophical knowledge, with a stated ambition to be an original television open to the world, articulating universal knowledge and cultures as well as reflection on social and ecological living conditions in Île-de-France and internationally. Cinaps TV was available on channel 31 of the Île-de-France DTT, sharing that channel with Demain ! IDF and Télé Bocal, and was also carried on cable and IPTV. Facing a lack of financial support to cover the cost of DTT broadcasting in Île-de-France, the channel did not respond to the CSA hearing for the renewal of its broadcasting authorization requested from 20 March 2018, ten years after its creation. From that date, Cinaps TV became a cultural magazine regularly broadcast on the channel Demain ! IDF. Its website remained accessible after the channel ceased broadcasting. The channel was led by president Romain Philippe Pomedio, a lecturer at the University of Paris VIII, initiator of care structures for autistic people and producer-director of documentaries for television and the CNRS; director Lenny Pomedio; and secretary Patricia Gil-Crapis. Its presenters included figures such as musician Didier Lockwood, physicist Étienne Klein, academic and journalist Antoine Spire, singer Michel Jonasz, psychologist and clown Howard Buten, Nobel Prize in Physics Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, poet and singer Dick Annegarn, and others. Its sponsors included philosopher Edgar Morin, linguist Julia Kristeva, anthropologist Maurice Godelier, geneticist Pierre Tambourin, and other prominent intellectuals and scientists.

Cinaps TV was born from the initiative of a group of scientists and artists who decided to invent a television whose objective was to transmit knowledge and cultivate curiosity. The project was submitted during the call for applications for digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Île-de-France and was selected by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA). In 2008, Cinaps TV received authorization to broadcast 28 hours and 30 minutes per week on channel 21 of the Île-de-France DTT lineup. The channel's founders were motivated by the observation that cognitive psychology continually underlines the profound impact of television on our representation of the world, while early 21st-century television based its production criteria on ratings, pulling content downward to reach the largest possible audience. Cinaps positioned itself as an alternative to this audiovisual void, which it said neglected extraordinary scientific advances (quantum physics, cognitive psychology, genetics, nanotechnology) and major contemporary challenges (protection of biodiversity, renewable energy). The channel was broadcast on channel 31 of the Île-de-France DTT, sharing the channel with Demain ! IDF and Télé Bocal, and was also available on cable and IPTV. Its programming and mission centered on the question of the meaning of our lives and our actions in reference to cultural, scientific and philosophical knowledge. Cinaps aimed to be an original television open to the world, where universal knowledge and cultures would be articulated and confronted daily, along with reflection on the social and ecological living framework of Île-de-France and international contexts. Facing a lack of financial support to cover the cost of DTT broadcasting in Île-de-France, Cinaps TV did not respond to the audition for the renewal of its broadcasting authorization requested by the CSA from 20 March 2018, ten years after its creation. From that same date, Cinaps TV became a cultural magazine regularly broadcast on the channel Demain ! IDF. The channel's website remained accessible after the channel ceased broadcasting. The channel was led by president Romain Philippe Pomedio, a lecturer at the University of Paris VIII, initiator of care structures for autistic people, and producer-director of documentaries for television and the CNRS; director Lenny Pomedio; and secretary Patricia Gil-Crapis. Its presenters included Didier Lockwood, Étienne Klein, Antoine Spire, Michel Jonasz, Howard Buten, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Dick Annegarn, Francis Lockwood, Jean-Robert Pitte, Marc Lacombe (Marcus), Henri Guybet, Alain Gouiffes and Jean-Claude Deret. Its sponsors included Edgar Morin, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Godelier, Pierre Tambourin, Daniel Mesguich, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Christian Baudelot, Élisabeth Roudinesco, François Jullien, Geneviève Fraisse, Georges Vigarello, Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Julie Brochen, Marie Balmary, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Alain Berthoz and Antoine Compagnon.

• 2018

  Cinaps TV does not respond to the CSA audition for renewal of its DTT broadcasting authorization; from 20 March 2018 it becomes a cultural magazine on Demain ! IDF.

• 2008

  Cinaps TV receives authorization to broadcast 28 hours and 30 minutes per week on channel 21 of the Île-de-France DTT.

Alternative culture-and-knowledge television, emancipated from short-term ratings logic, focused on science, philosophy and contemporary issues.

• Cultural and knowledge television programming

• Documentaries

• Magazine shows

1. 1Cinaps TV - Canal 31 TNT - La Télévision du savoir et de la connaissancecinaps.tv
2. 2Cinaps TVwikidata.org
3. 3Cinaps TVfr.wikipedia.org