The Info Channel, better known by the acronym LCI, is a French television news channel of the TF1 group. LCI is historically a toll channel. Today, it is accessible by satellite, cable, high-speed telecommunication networks (IPTV, xDSL, ADSL, fiber optics, Wimax, etc.) and free DTT. This is chronologically the third of the four channels of information accessible free of charge by TNT in France.
As the first news channel launched in France, LCI was initially designed to target primarily viewers in the "CSP +" category, a specific high-end target for advertisers1. Its competitors CNews (1999), BFM TV (2005) and broadcast on free DTT, while LCI remained a pay from December 27, 1994 to April 4, 20162,3.
It became free a few months before the launch of the public information channel France Info.