They had one of the best daily day of record newscast anywhere with great international coverage and a fair amount of domestic news produced by TV2, I think, for international audience. However, they ceased subtitling that newscast and, soon after, I cancelled TV5 from my services. This was, coincidentally, the time when France 24 had just launched. It seemed they wanted to direct us to France 24 for news and leave TV5Monde for the movies and televised stage plays. France 24 is crap next to the international daily TV2 newscast, and the on-air readers and reporters were far superior and had a good amount of French domestic news, and what an EDUCATION on what the French, like us, have to put up with in regards to daily life and their government, racism, public vs. private employment, near daily disruptive strikes and marches, and the pent-up demand by the French people to have the ability to shop on weekends and GASP, some holidays, but the Unions won't have it, even though many French are willing to work on those "sacred" days because they really need the money, or extra time to shop--and SPEND more money, and that is GOOD for the French economy, no?--, in a French economy with highly unemployment that aint no Germany or UK economy while still sending out the checks and providing Universal Health Care whose co-pays never seem to stop rising. However, I would never be as presumptuous as to take away the French 35 hour week. That's their legacy, like the US 40 hour one. Let them keep it. I watched the newscast everyday without fail and got MUCH more intelligent international news than ANY of our US news sources provide, and a lot of it was international that did not have to relate to French or US foreign policy, just really good reports on things happening around the world.
As stated, much, but not all, the content is subtitled, especially just about all the movies and some of the political debates during elections are subtitled. However, a lot of the variety, talk shows, and general entertainment show produced for TV are not subtitled, and they are some of the most entertaining--along with the movies--content on TV5Monde. Glad to hear it is finally in HD. Should have been so a long time ago.