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| Type | Radio and television |
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| Country | Belgium |
| Availability | Regional |
| Owner | German Community of Belgium |
Launch date | 1977; 48 years ago (1977) |
Official website | http://www.brf.be |
Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) (Belgian Broadcasting) is thepublic-service broadcasting organisation serving theGerman-speaking Community of Belgium. Its headquarters are based inEupen. With additional studio facilities inSankt Vith and Brussels, BRF produces one television and three radio channels.
German-language broadcasts were first started in Brussels by theNational Institute of Radio Broadcasting (Nationaal Instituut voor Radio Omroep, NIR;Institut National de Radiodiffusion, INR) on 1 October 1945. In 1960, the NIR/INR becameBelgische Radio en Televisie /Radio-Télévision Belge (BRT/RTB) and in 1961 RTB began a German-language radio channel, broadcasting fromLiège.
In 1977, the German-language service was separated from RTB – which becameRadio-Télévision Belge de la Communauté française (RTBF) – and BRT, which in 1990s becameVlaamse radio en televisie (VRT) – and the new company, Belgischer Rundfunk, began broadcasting from Eupen. For some years afterward, it continued to use BRT/RTB's old stylised "ear" logo long after its French and Flemish sisters dropped it.
In October 1999 BRF-TV was created; it broadcasts by cable in theEast Cantons. On 15 November 2001, BRF andDeutschlandfunk Cologne began BRF-DLF, a radio station in Brussels for German-speakers in that area.
The iconic "ear" logo designed by Michel Olyff (seen to the right) was withdrawn on 22 June 2015, long after the Flemish and Walloon counterparts removed it. The current logo is limited to the extant wordmark.[1]
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The group participates in two more projects:
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