RTL-TVI is a private

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based television station in

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owned by DPG Media and Groupe Rossel, it was originally owned by the

RTL Group RTL Group (for "Radio Television Luxembourg") is a Luxembourg-based international media conglomerate, with another corporate centre in Cologne, Germany. The company operates 68 television channels and 31 radio stations in Germany, France ...

until 31 March 2022. Within the French-speaking area of Belgium, it is the most popular channel with a 20 percent viewing share. It was the first commercial television station in Belgium. RTL-TVI offers a schedule of family-oriented information, entertainment and fiction genres. In French-speaking Belgium, almost all of the foreign programs are dubbed in French, instead of retaining the original soundtrack. In Belgium, RTL also operates the French-language channels

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, Kidz RTL and

Plug RTL Plug RTL is a general Luxembourgish French speaking commercial television chain with international presence and targeting adolescents and young people (15-34 age bracket). The station is particularly popular in francophone parts of Belgium (Wallon ...

History

Since 1955, Télé-Luxembourg, which became

RTL Television RTL (from '), formerly RTL plus and RTL Television, is a German-language free-to-air television channel owned by the RTL Group, headquartered in Cologne. Founded as an offshoot of the German-language radio programme '' ,'' RTL is consider ...

in 1982, is broadcast from the Dudelange transmitter in Luxembourg. Following the collision of a Belgian military plane with the transmitter on 31 July 1981, the '' Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion'' (CLT) obtained compensation from the Belgian government. The state monopoly on television broadcasting was lifted. On 12 September 1983 the Belgian version of the JTL show, presented by Jean-Charles De Keyser, Eddy de Wilde and Bibiane Godfroid, was launched from a small studio in Roosevelt villa, Brussels. In December 1985, CLT created a Belgian company called TVI SA, which produced programs and sold advertising space specifically for RTL Belgium. Belgian TV channel RTL became independent on 12 September 1987 with the launch of RTL-TVI (Télévision Indépendante), which now produces all its programming in Brussels. This was the first independent channel in the French Community of Belgium. The registration by the Government of the French Community on 21 December 1987 enabled it to legally access the Belgian TV advertising market, through its subsidiary IPB. This monopoly was broken in 1989 when the government allowed commercial advertising on RTBF channels.

Programming

*'' 60 secondes chrono'' (Belgian French version) *''

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'' (Belgian French version) *'' L'Amour est dans le pré'' (Belgian French version) *'' Le Juste Prix'' (Belgian French version) *''Place Royale'' *' *' *'' Un dîner presque parfait'' (Belgian French version)

References

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* Television channels in Belgium Television channels and stations established in 1987 French-language television stations in Belgium Television in Luxembourg Mass media in Luxembourg {{belgium-tv-stub