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The construction of the television transmitter is put on hold and order 75-43 of the Kérékou military council transforms the ORTD into the Benin Radio and Television Office (ORTB) whose main mission is to develop coverage of the territory by national radio. [2]
Founded in 1923 as a privately-run station called Radio Belgique, it was acquired by the state-run Belgian National Broadcasting Institute (INR/NIR) in 1930. It is a " generalist " station carrying a wide range of principally spoken-word and information-based programming, and is RTBF's main radio news channel.
Belgium has three public broadcasters, one for each national language. The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT) for the Dutch-speaking Flemish Community (); The Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF) for the French Community of Belgium (Wallonia and Brussels)
The communications tower at the RTBF's headquarters in Brussels. Originally named the Belgian National Broadcasting Institute (French: INR, Institut national belge de radiodiffusion; Dutch: NIR, Belgisch Nationaal Instituut voor de Radio-omroep), the state-owned broadcasting organisation was established by law on 18 June 1930, [citation needed] and from 1938 was housed in the Flagey Building ...
Musiq'3 is a Belgian public-service radio station operated by RTBF.Its output is centred on classical music. The current director is Bernard Meillat. The channel first went on air – as the Troisième Programme of the then existing RTB (Radio-télévision belge, RTB) – on 1 October 1961. [1]
VivaCité is a radio network, covering the French-speaking regions of Belgium, via six regional stations (Brussels, Charleroi, Hainaut, Liège, Namur/Luxembourg/Walloon Brabant). Its programming is a mix of adult contemporary music with personality-driven shows and sports coverage in the evenings. All six stations air local programming in the ...
On 26 June 2006, RTBF International began broadcasting in FM in Kinshasa on 99.2 MHz. RTBF ceased its shortwave service on 31 December 2009. Around July 2019, the radio station seemed to have ceased operations. In Belgium though DAB+ and internet RTBF Mix has been launched for the north of the country.
In 1997, the Parlement de la Communauté française made RTBF an autonomous public company, with RTBF 1 being renamed RTBF La 1 along with RTBF 21 into RTBF La 2. RTBF La Une became the first Belgian television channel to broadcast 24 hours a day, unlike its Flemish counterpart, BRTN TV1 (now known as één) which closed down during the day.