La Première (Belgium)

For other uses, see La 1ère (disambiguation).

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).

La Première

Broadcast area	Belgium
Frequency	Brussels and Brabant Brussels-Centre: 92.5 MHz Brussels and Brabant wallon: 96.1 MHz Liège Huy: 94.3 MHz Liège: 96.4 MHz Malmédy: 89.2 MHz Saint-Vith: 87.9 MHz Spa: 97.3 MHz Verviers: 91.3 MHz Waremme: 94.6 MHz Hainaut Ath: 97.9 MHz Charleroi: 94.8 MHz Chimay: 87.6 MHz Comines: 94.1 MHz Tournai (Hainaut occidental): 106.0 MHz La Louvière: 91.5 MHz Mons: 91.5 MHz Thuin: 93.4 MHz Namur - Luxembourg Bouillon: 89.4 MHz Couvin: 94.2 MHz Houffalize: 90.2 MHz La Roche-en-Ardenne: 96.0 MHz Marche-en-Famenne: 93.3 MHz Namur: 102.7 MHz Sud-Luxembourg and Ardennes: 96.4 MHz Vielsalm: 102.8 MHz Andorra: 34 UHF[1]
Programming
Format	Generalist
Ownership
Owner	RTBF
History
First air date	24 November 1923; 101 years ago (1923-11-24)
Links
Website	www.lapremiere.be

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]

History

The radio station was first launched on 24th November 1923 at 11am (CET) under the ownership of the Société Belge Radio-électrique [nl] (SBR) called Radio Belgique,^[3] until it was acquired by the state-run Belgian National Broadcasting Institute (INR/NIR) in 1930.

See also

• RTBF