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Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

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Country
  
France

Founded
  
27 June 1964, France

Ceased operations
  
December 31, 1974

Dissolved
  
December 31, 1974

Launch date
  
27 June 1964

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Type
  
Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial

Key people
  
Jacques-Bernard Dupont Jean-Jacques de Bresson Arthur Conte Marceau Long

Affiliates
  
France Culture, France Musique

TV shows
  
The Magic Roundabout, Belle and Sebastian, Belle - Sebastian and the H, Zoom the White Dolphin, Les Gammas! Les Gam

The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France. All programming, and especially news broadcasts, are under strict control of the national government.

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Post World War II

A 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 replaced by the 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).

French television revolution

On December 31, 1974, the ORTF split in 5, leaving 7 successor institutions:

  • Télévision Française 1 (TF1) (privatised in 1988)
  • Antenne 2 (now France 2)
  • France Régions 3 (now France 3)
  • SFP - Société Française de Production (programme production)
  • INA - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (archives)
  • TDF - Télédiffusion de France (transmission)
  • Radio France - (Société Radio France) French national and international radio
  • Membership of the European Broadcasting Union

    In 1950 the ORTF's predecessor, RTF, had been one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union. Upon the break-up of the ORTF in 1974, French membership of the EBU was transferred to the transmission company TDF, while TF1 became a second French active member. A2, FR3, and SRF became supplementary active members before eventually becoming full members in 1982. In 1983 the French public broadcasters' membership was transferred to a joint organisation, the Organisme français de radiodiffusion et de télévision (OFRT). Nine years later, the OFRT was succeeded by the Groupement des Radiodiffuseurs Français de l’UER (GRF) which currently holds one of the French memberships of the EBU.

    References

    Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française Wikipedia