Radio Télévision Belge Francophone

Geschiedenis

Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française is the public broadcasting organization of the French Community of Belgium, the southern, French-speaking part of Belgium. Its counterpart in the Flemish Community is the Dutch-language Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie, and in the German-speaking Community it is the Belgischer Rundfunk .RTBF operates five television channels – La Une, La Deux, La Trois, Arte Belgique and PureVision together with a number of radio channels, La Première, RTBF International, VivaCité, Musiq3, Classic 21, and PureFM.The organization's headquarters in Brussels is sometimes referred to colloquially as Reyers. This comes from the name of the avenue where RTBF's main building is located, the Boulevard Auguste Reyers .HistoryOriginally named the Belgian National Broadcasting Institute, the state-owned broadcasting organization was established by law on 18 June 1930. On 14 June 1940 the INR was forced to cease broadcasting as a result of the German invasion. The German occupying forces, who now oversaw its management, changed the INR's name to Radio Bruxelles. A number of INR personnel were able to relocate to the BBC's studios in London from where they broadcast as Radio Belgique / Radio België under the Office de Radiodiffusion Nationale Belge established by the Belgian government in exile's Ministry of Information.