At the 2026 French Open, France Televisions ran Decart's Lucy 2.0 for real-time video transformation, Gracia AI 4D Gaussian Splatting for volumetric video, Topaz Labs Starlight Precise 2.5 for archive remastering, and an AI virtual-mirror anonymiser, all disclosed through its RG Lab initiative on 11 June 2026.Source: Lowdown

What is France Televisions RG Lab?

RG Lab is France Televisions' innovation unit that trials emerging production technology live at Roland-Garros. In June 2026 it publicly named the AI vendors running in its broadcast stack, making it one of the first EU public broadcasters to disclose generative-AI suppliers in live production.Source: Lowdown

Is France Televisions compliant with the EU AI Act?

France Televisions uses Moments Lab AI indexing in its workflows and disclosed its Roland-Garros AI stack in June 2026, positioning it ahead of the EU AI Act Article 50 compliance Deadline of 2 August 2026, which requires machine-readable labelling of AI-generated or manipulated content served to viewers.Source: Lowdown

Background

France Televisions is France's national public television broadcaster, a state-owned company integrating France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, and the 24-hour news channel France Info. Headquartered in Paris, it is regulated by ARCOM and funded through a combination of the public licence fee and commercial advertising. From 1 January 2026, a government bill integrates it into a new holding company, France Medias, alongside Radio France and INA, consolidating public media governance under ARCOM.

On 11 June 2026, France Televisions disclosed through its RG Lab initiative at Roland-Garros the full AI stack it ran in live tournament production: Decart's Lucy 2.0 real-time video transformation (sub-half-second latency), Gracia AI 4D Gaussian Splatting for volumetric video, Topaz Labs Starlight Precise 2.5 for remastering archive footage, an AI virtual-mirror tool anonymising on-camera interviewees, agentic AI for an Android XR companion app, and live audience-chat analysis . A European public broadcaster naming its generative-AI vendors in a live production context is the transparency-forward inverse of the pattern seen at US networks; it positions France Televisions as a reference case for the EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations, which require machine-readable labelling of AI-generated or AI-manipulated content from 2 August 2026.

France Televisions also uses Moments Lab (formerly Newsbridge) AI multimodal indexing tools embedded in its content workflows, giving it an existing AI metadata supply chain ahead of the Article 50 Deadline. As one of the largest public broadcasters in the EU, its vendor-disclosure approach at Roland-Garros may become a compliance template that commercial rivals and smaller public broadcasters reference when operationalising Article 50 in live production.

The RG Lab precedent set a template that the wider European public-broadcasting sector followed in the week of 7 to 15 July 2026: Eurovision Sport and European Athletics shipped labelled, disclosed AI commentary at the U18 Championships in Rieti , echoing France Televisions' own named-vendor, transparency-first approach rather than marking a new move by France Televisions itself.