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French Guiana’s television culture is a small‑scale mirror of mainland France, adapted for the Amazon. The only channel available over the air is Guyane 1ère, the local outpost of France Télévisions. It mixes locally produced news and magazine shows, heavy on topics like gold mining, space launches from Kourou, and Creole culture, with the same prime‑time dramas, game shows, and evening news bulletins you’d see in Paris. Primetime follows the French clock: 20:00 for the national JT (journal télévisé) followed by a film or variety show. All programming is in French; there is no dubbing or subtitling for the local Creole or indigenous languages, though you might catch a few minutes of Creole in magazine segments. Live sports are limited to major events like the Tour de France or World Cup, broadcast via the mainland feed. Satellite and IPTV are common-many households subscribe to French packages (Canal+, Orange) for dozens more channels. This means French Guianans watch a lot of the same content as hexagon viewers, but with a distinct local flavor only in the handful of hours Guyane 1ère produces each day. The market is tiny compared to neighboring Suriname and Brazil, where commercial broadcasters dominate with telenovelas and football, but French Guiana’s TV remains firmly anchored to Paris.