La Première (, "The First") is a national
French-language
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radio channel produced by the Belgian public broadcasting organization
Radio télévision belge de la communauté française (RTBF).
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.
It is broadcast on
FM, and digital (
DAB and
DVB-T
DVB-T, short for Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial, is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in Singapore in Fe ...
), as well as being streamed on the
internet
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. It has been announced that the
Medium Wave
Medium wave (MW) is a part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. The spectrum provides about 120 channels with more limited sound quality than FM stations on the FM broadcast band. During the daytim ...
service on 621 kHz from the
Wavre transmitter has already ceased on 31 December 2018.
History
The radio station was first launched on 24 November 1923 at 11am (
CET) under the ownership of the (SBR) called Radio Belgique,
until it was acquired by the state-run Belgian National Broadcasting Institute (INR/NIR) in 1930.
See also
*
RTBF
The ("Belgian Radio-television of the French Community"), shortened to RTBF (branded as rtbf.be), is a public broadcasting, public service broadcaster for the French Community of Belgium, French-speaking Community of Belgium. Its counterpart i ...
References
External links
www.lapremiere.be
1923 establishments in Belgium
French-language radio stations in Belgium
Radio stations established in 1923
News and talk radio stations
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