Jacques Navadic (3 January 1920 – 2 August 2015) was a Broadcasting editor and

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who joined

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in 1955 as Director of information a post in which he stayed in until 1984, between 1975 and 1981 he was Programme Director before becoming

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of RTL in 1984. He was born in

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. For television he worked with

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on the show ''Journal de Télé Luxembourg''. He was the regular

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commentator of the

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between 1966 until 1981 and again in 1984. Navadic retired from RTL Luxembourg in 1989. He died in Nice in 2015.

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