RTBF
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RTBF or Radio télévision belge de la communauté française is the publicly-funded broadcaster for the French-speaking southern part of Belgium, the counterpart to the Dutch-speaking VRT in the northern part of the country. RTBF operates two television channels, "La Une" and "La Deux", along with a number of radio channels, La Première, RTBF International, VivaCité, Musiq3, Classic21 and PureFM.
The RTBF headquarters in Brussels are sometimes referred to as Reyers [link] [link] [link]. This colloquial address comes from the name of the avenue where the main building is located, the Boulevard A. Reyers (Dutch: Reyerslaan).
History
With the law of June 18, 1930 appears the INR (Institut national belge de radiodiffusion), a national society of radio broadcasting with strong intervention from the Belgian State. On June 14, 1940 the INR stops the broadcast due to the German invasion. It then changes its name to Radio Bruxelles and is managed by German invaders. People from the former INR (now called Radio Belgique/Radio Belgie) move to BBC studios in London. The Belgian government creates the Office de Radiodiffusion Nationale Belge (RNB) in June 1940, an organisation depending from the Belgian Ministry of Information.At the end of the War the INR and the RNB coexist until September 14, 1945 and a Royal Decree stating the INR will recover its mission. The INR is located at the time Place Flagey in Brussels. In 1953 the Belgian television starts with two hours a day of broadcast. The INR becomes RTB (Radio-Télévision Belge) in 1960 and moves to the Reyers building in 1967. The RTB programs its first broadcast in colour (Le Jardin Extraordinaire) in 1971. Two years later it is the first News program in colour of the channel.
In 1977 RTB becomes RTBF (Radio-Télévison Belge de la Communauté française) and a new TV channel is created with the name RTbis. In 1979 RTbis becomes Télé 2. Along with French channels TF1, Antenne 2, FR 3 and SSR, RTBF creates the European French-speaking channel TV5 in 1984. On March 21, 1988 Télé 2 becomes Télé 21. On September 27, 1989 a subsidiary company of RTBF comes to light with the name Canal Plus TVCF that will become Canal Plus Belgique in May 1995. In 1993 Télé 21 is replaced by Arte/21 and Sport 21.
See also
- RTL-TVI, a private French-spaking channel in Belgium major competitor of RTBF
- Luc Varenne, a famous reporter
- List of television channels in Belgium
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