The Pacific’s largest media companies – France Télévisions and Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) International have signed an agreement for increased coverage of the region’s events across their networks.

Both organisations signed the Pierre Riant Memorandum of Understanding 2015, on February 6 as part of the Oceanian International Documentary Film Festival (FIFO).

The MoU, named after the recently-deceased French journalist in the Pacific, will see a growing exchange of content between the two broadcasters to all of the Pacific’s French-speaking territories.

Listeners in New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna and Tahiti will now have access to a weekly seven-minute Pacific roundup as well as a three-and-a-half minute Pacific update produced by Radio Australia.

Radio Australia’s French content is produced by Caroline Lafargue and can be heard on RA’s partner rebroadcasters in the Pacific.

France Télévisions – Network Overseas 1st is available in the Pacific on multi platforms across satellite and terrestrial television, radio and online.