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The 'Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française' ('ORTF') was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France.
Following the Second World War, a public monopoly on broadcasting in France had been established with the formation of Radiodiffusion Française (RDF) in 1945. RDF was renamed Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF) in 1949 and ORTF in 1964.
From the beginning, the public broadcaster experienced fierce competition from the "peripheral stations": French-speaking stations aimed at the French public but transmitting on longwave from neighbouring countries, such as Radio Monte Carlo (RMC) from Monaco, Radio Luxembourg (later RTL) from Luxembourg, and Europe 1 from Germany (exceptionally, in 1974, RMC was allowed to set up a transmitter on French territory).
On August 8 1974, the ORTF was split into 7 institutions:

★ TF1 (Télévision Française 1; privatised in 1987)

★ Antenne 2 (now France 2)

★ FR3 (France Régions 3; now France 3)

★ SFP - Société Française de Production (programme production)

★ INA - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (archives)

★ TDF - Télédiffusion de France (transmission)

★ Radio France - (Société Radio France) French national and international radio
RTF was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950. After the split of ORTF the French membership was jointly taken over by TDF, TF1, A2, FR3 and SRF before it was transferred to a joint organisation 'Organisme français de radiodiffusion et de télévision (OFRT)' in 1982. Ten years later, the OFRT was succeeded by 'Groupement des Radiodiffuseurs Français de l’UER (GRF)' which currently holds one of the French memberships of the EBU.

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★ Musique concrète

★ ''Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel'', regulating authorities