Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française
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Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF; French Radio and Television Broadcasting) was the French national public broadcaster television organization established on 9 February 1949 to replace the post-war "Radiodiffusion Française" (RDF), which had been founded on 23 March 1945 to replace Radiodiffusion Nationale (RN), created on 29 July 1939. It was replaced in its turn, on 26 June 1964, by the notionally less-strictly government controlled Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), which itself lasted until the end of 1974.
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Type | Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial |
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Country | France |
Owner | Government of France |
Launch date | 9 February 1949 |
Dissolved | 26 June 1964 |
Replaced by | Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française |
RTF was both state-owned and state-controlled. With a budget set by the French National Assembly under the direction of the Ministry of Information, all of its spending and investment plans had to be directly agreed by the Minister of Information and the Minister of Finance.
Alain Peyrefitte, Minister of Information, speaking in a debate in the National Assembly on 26 May 1964,[1] described RTF as "the government in every Frenchman's dining-room" – La RTF, c'est le gouvernement dans la salle à manger de chaque Français.