RTBF

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Infobox radio tower icon
RTBF
Station logo
TV station ( public service )
Program type Full program
reception DVB-T , DVB-S , DVB-C , cable
Start of transmission 1930
language French
Seat Brussels
List of TV channels
Website

Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF; German radio and television of the French Community of Belgium , officially rtbf.be since 2010 ) is the public service broadcaster for the francophone population of Belgium .

The broadcaster for the Flemish part of Belgium is called Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT), that for the German-speaking Community is Belgian Broadcasting (BRF).

Programs

radio

RTBF reporting vehicle
Communication tower of the RTBF headquarters in Brussels . The Dutch-speaking VRT has its headquarters on the same site on Boulevard Reyers.
Board with all channels of the RTBF at the headquarters

The establishment broadcasts five main radio programs and some special interest channels as an Internet stream.

Programs
Radio wave from RTBF radio main emphasis annotation
La Première culture- and information- oriented radio généraliste (for example: full program) with a dominant word component in the form of conversations, discussions, interviews, news and news magazines, features, reports, cultural and economic reporting. In the narrowly defined evening music segment, a range of thematic programs from the fields of chanson, jazz and world music, often sorted by genre. RDS signal : PREMIERE, dissemination : FM, DAB +, cable, satellite and Internet stream; La Première means "the first"
Vivacité A music program aimed at an adult audience, consisting of soft pop, oldies and chansons. Hourly news, regional reporting twice a day ( Bruxelles , Charleroi / Mons , Namur / Brabant Wallon / Luxembourg , Liège ). Sports reporting also takes place in Vivacité. Vivacité is a radio network from regional stations in the provinces. These also appear in the station name (VivaBruxelles, VivaNamur, VivaLiège, etc.). RDS signal : VIVACITE, distribution : FM, long wave, DAB +, cable, satellite, and internet stream ; Vivacité means on the one hand liveliness , which should indicate the style of the radio stations, on the other hand the Cité (city) should also emphasize the regional character of the programs.
Musiq'3 as a third program dedicated to serious music. In addition to classical music, orchestral and chamber music and concerts, jazz is also played in individual special-interest programs. Musiq'3 supports a number of classical music events. RDS signal : MUSIQ'3, distribution : FM, DAB +, cable, satellite and internet stream ;
Classic 21 plays mainly rock classics from the last four decades and also has some thematic specialty programs in the program RDS signal : CLASS.21, distribution : FM, DAB +, cable, satellite and internet stream ;
Pure-FM Youth radio, which plays urban modern music, mainly from the genres hip-hop and pop, and which also promotes Belgian newcomers. RDS signal : PURE-FM, distribution : FM, DAB +, cable, satellite and internet stream;

In addition to the main channels, RTBF offers some special interest channels that are broadcast as Internet streams, such as the “La vie en rose” channel with a French chanson that emerged from the eponymous program on “La Première”. There are other thematic music channels and the second program of the youth radio "Pure-FM", which plays alternative new music under the name "Pure-2".

watch TV

The national television programs “La Une” (The One), “La Deux” (The Two) and “La Trois” (The Three) are broadcast nationally via aerial and cable. Until the beginning of 2010 there was also the satellite program "RTBF SAT", which could also be received outside of Belgium. This was discontinued for cost reasons.

RTBF is involved with other French-speaking state broadcasters from France, Switzerland and Canada in the international TV5 Monde and in the French Arte .

history

RTBF (Belgium)
Edegem
Edegem
Vichte
Vichte
Ghent
Ghent
Loksbergen
Loksbergen
Liège
Liège
Coin
Coin
Micheroux
Micheroux
Plainevaux
Plainevaux
Beaufays
Beaufays
Andrimont
Andrimont
Libramont
Libramont
Châtelineau
Châtelineau
Binche
Binche
Vellereille
Vellereille
Kraainem
Kraainem
Titmouse
Titmouse
Veltem
Veltem
Belgian radio stations of the 1930s

As early as 1908, the engineer Robert Goldschmidt was experimenting with radio waves in Brussels. In 1913, speech and music were first transmitted via long wave in the royal garden in Laeken / Laken ; on March 28, 1914, a concert was broadcast for the royal family. At the beginning of the First World War, however , King Albert had the facility destroyed in order not to let it fall into German hands.

The beginnings of French-speaking radio in Belgium go back to Radio Bruxelles , which was set up in 1922 by the radio manufacturer SBR (Société Belge Radio-électrique) in Ixelles / Elsene , and was called Radio Belgique from 1924 . With effect from February 1, 1931, it was merged with the Flemish broadcaster NV Radio, which had existed since 1928, to form the Institut national de radiodiffusion (INR) / Nationaal Instituut voor de Radio-omroep (NIR), whose new medium-wave transmitters are located in Veltem . In addition, there were 16 local stations in Belgium before the Second World War, 12 of which were broadcast in French (blue in the map on the right). From 1940 to 1944, Belgian radio was controlled by National Socialist Germany ( Radio Bruxelles / Zender Brussel ), while the Belgian government in exile uses BBC broadcasters ( Radio Belgique / Radio België ). After the war, the Wavre-Overijse broadcasting station was opened in 1952 and the television service in 1953. In 1960 INR / NIR became Radiodiffusion-Télévision belge (RTB) / Belgische Radio- en Televisieomroep (BRT), and in 1977 it was split into RTBF, BRT (N) (from 1998 VRT ) and BRF . From the 1970s to the 1990s, there was also terrestrial Belgian television for the Belgian armed forces in Germany .

Controversy

Alleged declaration of independence

On December 13, 2006 the Belgian broadcaster shocked with the fictional special program Bye Bye Belgium about the alleged declaration of independence of the Flemish part. Belgium ceased to exist and the king fled the country. Interviews with real politicians, some of whom were privy to the hoax, archive material and posed recordings reinforced the viewer's realistic impression. Only after some time did the notice appear that it was pure fiction. Nevertheless, TV viewers fought back tears or called the station hotline. The broadcast was controversial in Belgium in the days that followed.

Radio Mille Collines

Because of alleged anti-Flemish agitation by the RTBF, the Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme also called the station Radio Mille Collines , in reference to the Rwandan broadcaster that called on the Hutus to commit genocide against the Tutsis in 1994 .

Web links

Commons : RTBF  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. De geschiedenis van de Belgische radio: de eerste radiozenders
  2. Leterme: “La RTBF? C'est Radio Mille Collines ”. Belga article on dhnet.be, December 8, 2007.
    Dirk Schümer : A nation state is falling apart
    : The end of Belgium. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 21, 2010, accessed on September 14, 2015.