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Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF – French Radio and Television Broadcasting) was the French national public broadcasting company established on 9 February 1949 to replace the post-war "Radiodiffusion Française" (RDF), which had been founded in 1945. It was replaced in its turn, on 26 June 1964, by the notionally less-strictly government controlled Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), which itself lasted until the end of 1974. RTF was both state-owned and state-controlled. With a budget set by the French National Assembly under the direction of the Ministry of Information, all of its spending and investment plans had to be directly agreed by the Minister of Information and the Minister of Finance. Alain Peyrefitte, Minister of Information, speaking in 1963, said that (RTF) television was "the government in every Frenchman's dining-room" – La télévision, c'est le gouvernement dans la salle à manger de chaque Français.
[edit] HistoryA public monopoly on broadcasting in France had been established with the formation of Radiodiffusion Française (RDF) in 1945. RDF was renamed "Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française" (RTF) in 1949 and ORTF in 1964. From the beginning, the public broadcaster experienced fierce competition from the "peripheral stations": French-speaking stations aimed at the French public but transmitting on longwave from neighbouring countries, such as Radio Monte Carlo (RMC) from Monaco, Radio Luxembourg (later RTL) from Luxembourg, and Europe 1 from Germany (exceptionally, in 1974, RMC was allowed to set up a transmitter on French territory). [edit] OfficesRTF's head offices were located in the avenue de Friedland in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Its television studios and technical buildings were at 13-15 rue Cognac-Jay. [edit] ChannelsBy the start of the 1960s, the RTF had established five radio and two television channels: [edit] Radio
[edit] Television
[edit] Regional televisionRegional television, other than for Paris, was slow in development compared with the United States of America and the United Kingdom. The first regional station began April 10, 1950 with two hours a day of programming for Lille. The main news programme was called "Images of North" (Images du Nord). "Tele-Lille" had a reach across borders, with five times more Belgian viewers (West-Flanders, East-Flanders and Hainaut) than in northern France. By February 1952, a co-axial link with the main studios in Paris allowed "Tele-Lille" to rebroadcast main RTF programming when not on air. On October 15, 1953 "Tele Strasbourg" began, marking the beginning of the spread of regional television. Marseilles followed on September 20, 1954, Lyon on November 8, 1954, Toulouse in August 1961, Bordeaux on January 25, 1962 and most other regional centres following shortly afterward. From late 1963, the regional programmes moved to La deuxième chaîne, and remained there until the opening of La troisième chaîne (The Third Channel) under the ORTF on December 31, 1972. [edit] DirectorsThe directors of the RTF were directly appointed by the Minister of Information. Directors-general:
Assistant directors-general:
Directors of programmes, television:
Directors of news:
Directors of news (television):
Directors of sport:
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