[The history of a curious francophone television newscast in Belgium]
(2009) Revue Belge d’Histoire Contemporaine — Vol. 39, n° 1-2, p. 123-137 (2009)
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- Audiences usually identify the history of television news broadcasts with the history of national television news. In Belgium, where television was simultaneously launched by a French-speaking and a Dutch-speaking broadcaster in 1953, things were more complicated. Each broadcaster developed a policy of its own and each had a different vision vis-A-vis the necessity of self-produced televised news. Whereas the Dutch-speaking NIR (currently: VRT) immediately set up a news broadcast of its own, the French-speaking INR (currently: RTBF) took over the television news of the French RTF broadcaster for three years (1953-1956). Both NIR and INR seem to have had a different view of the possibilities of this new medium, but in reality both were driven by the same need to meet the expectations of their audiences. In the French-speaking south of the country, those expectations were subjected to the attractive forces of French television. Striving for quality, the INR did not make a news broadcast of its own for three years. At the same time, whether or not fully aware of it, the broadcaster laid the groundwork to produce a Belgian francophone televised news broadcast.
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Hanot, M. (2009). [The history of a curious francophone television newscast in Belgium]. Revue Belge d’Histoire Contemporaine, 39(1-2), 123-137. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/80396 (Original work published 2009)