Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
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The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France.
Following the Second World War, 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 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 long wave 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).
On August 8 1974, the ORTF was split into 7 institutions:
- TF1 (later to be privatized - in 1987)
- Antenne 2 (now France 2)
- FR3 (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 - French national and international radio
[edit] See also
- Musique concrète
- ORTF stereo technique
- Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, regulating authoritiesde:ORTF
