The current director of France 24 is Vanessa Burggraf. The budget is approximately €100 million per year. Since 2008 the channel has been wholly owned by the French government, via its holding company France Médias Monde, having bought out the minority share of the former partners: Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions.

The stated mission of the channels is to 'provide a global public service and a common editorial stance'. It is a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media players. It is aimed at a worldwide market and is generally broadcast by pay television providers around the world, but additionally, in 2010, France 24 began broadcasting online through its own iPhone and Android apps. In Zambia France 24 has struck a distribution agreement with Muvi TV adding the international news channel to operator Eutelsat 7B’s satellite offer.Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, the service started on 6 December 2006. In Swaziland a new distribution deal signed with Swaziland’s public television, brings France 24 free-to-air on a specific DTTV channel and broadcast free-to-air from 12pm to 6am on public channel Swazi TV. It is now also available as part of operator IPTV Pupil Communications Limited’s offer. In Nigeria, France 24 struck a deal with TVC Communications and was added to the PlayTV package on Astra 2F.

In Kenya Safaricom’s 28 million subscribers can now download France 24’s mobile phone application on the digital platform of Kenya’s main mobile network operator.

after Ligue 1 itself drops from 20 to 18 teams for the 202324 season. In South Africa a distribution agreement was signed with Media Core Group, adding France 24’s English channel to the operator’s new satellite package on IS20. Ligue 2 also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French. France 24 has signed new distribution agreements in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Swaziland and Zambia, significantly increasing its presence across English-speaking Africa, where it now reaches over 14 million households.

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