VivaCité is a Belgian public service radio station operated by

RTBF The ("Belgian Radio-television of the French Community"), shortened to RTBF (branded as rtbf.be), is a public broadcasting, public service broadcaster for the French Community of Belgium, French-speaking Community of Belgium. Its counterpart i ...

. The station launched on 29 February 2004 from the merger of regional network ''Fréquence Wallonie'' and Brussels station ''Bruxelles Capitale''. VivaCité is the French-language equivalent of VRT Radio 2.

Overview

VivaCité is a radio network, covering the French-speaking regions of Belgium, via six regional stations (

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

Charleroi Charleroi (, , ; ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is the largest city in both Hainaut and Wallonia. The city is situated in the valley of the Sambre, in the south-west of Belgium, not ...

, Hainaut,

Liège Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ...

Namur Namur (; ; ) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is the capital both of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration. Namur stands at the confl ...

Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembour ...

Walloon Brabant Walloon Brabant ( ; ; ) is a province located in Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the province of Flemish Brabant (Flemish Region) and the provinces of Liège, Namur and Hainaut. Walloon Br ...

). Its programming is a mix of

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

music with personality-driven shows and sports coverage in the evenings. All six stations air local programming in the morning between 5:30 and 8:30 weekdays, with evening drive coming from four locations (Luxembourg and Charleroi air neighbouring stations' shows). ''Radiolène'', a station based in Verviers was absorbed into the VivaCité network. ''Radiolène'' was created in 1982 as an experimental local station. It was severely reduced in 2004 by the ''Magellan Plan'' re-organisation of public radio, then closed as an independent station with three morning opt-out news bulletins remaining as local output.

Slogans

* 2004: ''La nouvelle radio'' * 2004-2006: ''On a plein de choses à se dire'' * 2006: ''Au cœur de vos émotions'' * 2007-2009: ''En toute complicité'' * 2009: ''La radio complice'' * 2009: ''Et la vie va!'' * 2011: ''Ma radio complicité''

Reception

FM

VivaCité Brabant wallon * Wavre: 97.3 VivaCité Bruxelles *

: 99.3 VivaCité Liège *

: 90.5 *

Malmedy Malmedy (; , historically also ; ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2018, Malmedy had a total population of 12,654. The total area is 99.96 km2 which gives a population dens ...

: 91.6 * Spa: 94.6 *

Verviers Verviers (; ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Ensival, Heusy, Lambermont, Petit-Rechain, Stembert, and Verviers. It is also the cent ...

: 103.0 * Welkenraedt: 89.4 VivaCité Charleroi *

: 92.3 * Chimay: 95.4 VivaCité Hainaut * La Louvière: 99.5 * Mons: 97.1 * Hainaut: 101.8 VivaCité Namur * Couvin: 94.2 *

(centre): 89.1 * Namur (province): 98.3 VivaCité Luxembourg *

Ardennes The Ardennes ( ; ; ; ; ), also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes, is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, extending into Germany and France. Geological ...

and

: 91.5 * Bouillon: 98.1 *

Houffalize Houffalize (; ; ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.Sven Vrielinck: De territoriale indeling van België 1795-1963 Volume 1. Universitaire Pers Leuven 2000. page 48. On 1 January 2007 the munic ...

: 91.8 *

La Roche-en-Ardenne La Roche-en-Ardenne (; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Luxembourg (Belgium), province of Luxembourg and the arrondissement of Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium. Lying beside a ben ...

: 88.2 * Marche-en-Famenne: 95.2

AM

* 621 kHz - shared time with La Première, everyday between 20:00-23:00, within a radius of about from Wavre * 1125 kHz - within a radius of about from La Louvière

DAB+

Since the end of 2018, each local stations are available on DAB+ on their provincial block. Until 2018, VivaCité was broadcast on DAB Block 12B (225.648 kHz). These were programmes that are broadcast by VivaCité Bruxelles which covers all of the

French Community of Belgium In Belgium, the French Community (, , CFB) refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities. Since 2011, the French Community has used the name Wallonia-Brussels Federation (, , FWB), which is controversial because ...

Satellite

* Astra 19.2°E - 12343.50 H (encrypted) Audio: 137

Digital terrestrial television

* UHF channel 56, 66 and 45

Internet

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