La Première (Belgium)
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| Frequencies |
Liège Hainaut Namur - Luxembourg |
|---|---|
| Programming | |
| Format | Generalist |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | RTBF |
| History | |
First air date | 24 November 1923 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.lapremiere.be |
La Première (French pronunciation: [la pʁəmjɛʁ], "The First") is a national French-language radio channel produced by the Belgian public broadcasting organization Radio télévision belge de la communauté française (RTBF).
It is a "generalist" station carrying a wide range of principally spoken-word and information-based programming, and is RTBF's main radio news channel.[citation needed]
It is broadcast on FM, and digital (DAB and DVB-T), as well as being streamed on the internet. It has been announced that the Medium Wave service on 621 kHz from the Wavre transmitter has already ceased on 31 December 2018.[2]
The radio station was first launched on 24 November 1923 at 11am (CET) under the ownership of the Société Belge Radio-électrique (SBR) called Radio Belgique,[3] until it was acquired by the state-run Belgian National Broadcasting Institute (INR/NIR) in 1930.