Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) (''Belgian Broadcasting'') is the public-service broadcasting organisation serving the

German-speaking Community of Belgium The German-speaking Community (german: links=no, Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft, or DG; french: links=no, Communauté germanophone; nl, links=no, Duitstalige Gemeenschap), since 2017 also known as East Belgium (german: links=no, Ostbelgien), is ...

. Based in

Eupen Eupen (, ; ; formerly ) is the capital of German-speaking Community of Belgium and is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, from the German border (Aachen), from the Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the "High Fens" na ...

, with additional studio facilities in Sankt Vith and

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, BRF produces one television and three radio channels.

History

German-language broadcasts were first started in Brussels by the ''Nationaal Instituut voor Radio Omroep'' / ''Institut National de Radiodiffusion'' (NIR/INR) on 1 October 1945. In 1960, the NIR/INR became ''Belgische Radio en Televisie'' / ''Radio-Télévision Belge'' (BRT/RTB) and in 1961 RTB began a German-language radio channel, broadcasting from

Liège Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...

. In 1977, the German-language service was separated from RTB – which became ''Radio-Télévision Belge de la Communauté française'' (

RTBF The ''Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française'' (RTBF, ''Belgian Radio-television of the French Community'', branded as rtbf.be) is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Commu ...

) – and BRT, which became ''Vlaamse radio en televisie'' ( VRT) - and the new company, Belgischer Rundfunk, began broadcasting from Eupen. For some years afterward, it continued to use BRT/RTB's old stylised "ear" logo long after its French and Flemish sisters dropped it. In October 1999 BRF-TV was created; it broadcasts by cable in the East Cantons. On 15 November 2001, BRF and

Deutschlandfunk Deutschlandfunk (DLF, ''Broadcast Germany'') is a public-broadcasting radio station in Germany, concentrating on news and current affairs. It is one of the four national radio channels produced by Deutschlandradio. History Broadcasting in the ...

Cologne began BRF-DLF, a radio station in Brussels for German-speakers in that area.

Services

Radio

* BRF1 is the speech and entertainment network with pop and rock music (plus specialist programmes covering classical and modern ''chanson''). * BRF2 is the popular music network ('' Schlager'' and '' volkstümliche Musik''). The group participates in two more projects: * BRF-DLF combines the speech output of BRF1 with that of

. * 100.5 Das Hitradio music station for German speaking part of Belgium, launched in 1998.

Television

BRF TV BRF TV (also known as BRF Fernsehen) is a German-language television channel in Belgium. It is owned by the Belgian public broadcaster Belgischer Rundfunk and transmitted via cable in the German-speaking Community of Belgium and throughout the c ...

broadcasts locally produced news and documentary programmes and can only be received fully via cable, Proximus TV and VOO digital TV. Their news program is also broadcast twice a day on the

Euronews Euronews (styled on-air in lowercase as euronews) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and covers world news from a European perspective. The majority of Eurone ...

channel of the free-to-air DVB-T service of the

References

External links

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Listen to BRF2 live
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