Communications in Belgium
Encyclopedia
Communications in Belgium are extensive and advanced. Belgium
possesses the infrastructure for both mobile and land-based telecom, as well as having significant television, radio and internet infrastructure. The country code
for Belgium is BE.
Mail
Mail regulation is a national competency. Postal service in Belgium
is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group
, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g
weight. Competitors include DHL
and UPS
.
Postal codes in Belgium
consist of four digits which indicate regional areas, e.g. "9000" is the postal code for Ghent
.
The country code
for Belgium is 32 and the international call prefix is 00.
A telephone number
in Belgium
is a sequence of nine or ten numbers dialled on a telephone to make a call on the telephone network in Belgium. Belgium is under a closed telephone numbering plan, but retains the trunk code, "0", for all national dialling.
lines in use in Belgium
in 2007, a slight decrease on the 4.769 million in use in 1997.
The majority state-owned public telephone company
of Belgium is Belgacom
. Some other or private operators exist, as Scarlet
(Belgacom
) and BASE
(KPN
).
There are three licensed mobile network operator
s (MNO) in Belgium, Proximus
(Belgacom
), Mobistar
(France Télécom
) and BASE
(KPN
) and numerous mobile virtual network operator
s (MVNO).
A fourth license will be auctioned of by the government in January 2010.
radio stations, 7 AM
stations and 1 SW
station, serving 8.075 million radios owned in the country.
Transmission is primary by terrestrial broadcast antenna. Analoque transmissions are provided by Norkring Belgium, Broadcast Partners, D'Hont Noël and TVVV Sound. Digital transmissions are provided by Norkring Belgium. Digital cable operators and internet providers also provide radio signals. Satellite transmission is provided by TV Vlaanderen.
Public radio in Belgium is controlled by the VRT
for the Dutch speaking region (Flanders
and Brussels
) the RTBF
for the French speaking region (Wallonia and Brussels) and the BRF
for the German community
in Belgium.
Numerous private operators exist. The main competitor in the Flanders and Brussels regions is VMMa
. The main competitor in the Wallonia and Brussels regions is RTL Group
.
Next to these regional channels, local channels exists. E.g. Radio 2 Limburg and GO FM
.
In 2009 radio market share in the Dutch speaking region was 63.08 % for the VRT channels (Radio 1
, Radio 2
, MNM, Studio Brussel
and Klara, 23.13 % for the VMMa channels (Q-Music and Joe FM) and 2.65 % for the Corelio/Concentra joint venture channel (Radio Nostalgie).
Radio advertising is managed in house in most cases. Two radio advertising agencies operate, Vlaamse Audiovisuele Regie and IP Plurimedia.
Intellectual property rights in Belgium are managed by SABAM
.
(DVB-C
) or copper telephone line
(xDSL). Terrestrial transmission (DVB-T
) also exists. In terms of television, there were 25 broadcast stations in 1997, and a further 10 repeaters. This digital terrestrial network is owned by Norking Belgium
. Small operators of analog networks exist. Satellite transmission (DVB-S
) in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia is operated by Airfield Belgium or Digidream. MNO's Proximus
and Mobistar
offer digital television over mobile phone (DVB-H
).
In 1997, 4.72 million televisions were owned nationwide.
Public television in Belgium is controlled by the VRT
for the Dutch speaking region (Flanders
and Brussels
) the RTBF
for the French speaking region (Wallonia and Brussels) and the BRF
for the German community
in Belgium.
Numerous private operators exist. The main competitors in the Flanders and Brussels regions are VMMa
, SBS Belgium
and Media ad Infinitum. VMMa is a joint venture of De Persgroep
and Roularta Media Group. The main competitors in the Wallonia and Brussels regions are RTL Group
and AB Groupe
.
Next to these regional channels, local channels exists. E.g. TV Oost and ROB TV.
In Flanders, VRT channels Een
, Ketnet/Canvas) had a combined market share of 40.0 % in 2008, VMMa channels (VTM
, 2BE and JIM
) 27.27 %, SBS Belgium channels (VT4
and Vijf TV) 10.91 % and Media ad Infinitum (Vitaya
and Vitaliteit) 3,64 %.
There are numerous public and private media companies that specialise as producer or distributor of channels, content and video services. E.g. Studio 100
and Woestijnvis
.
There are numerous public and private media companies that specialise as producer or distributor of television production facilities. E.g. Alfacam and Videohouse.
Radio advertising is managed in house in most cases. Four radio advertising agencies operate, Vlaamse Audiovisuele Regie, RMB, RTVM and ORR
.
Intellectual property rights in Belgium are managed by SABAM
.
s and magazine
s in Belgium are printed monolingual either in Dutch
or in French
. Bilingual publications are very minor.
Belgium's major news agency
is Belga (news agency)
. Minor news agencies exist. Belgium's major photo agencies are Isopix and Photo News.
Important distributors in Belgium are AMP, Deltamedia, Belgian Post Group
, Belgische Distributiedienst and Press Shop.
Press advertising is managed in house in most cases. Private advertising agencies operate, e.g. Scripta
, IP Plurimedia or Mediashake.
(De Persgroep) (30.96 %), Het Nieuwsblad
(Corelio) (27.04 %), Gazet van Antwerpen
(Concentra) (11.27 %), Het Belang van Limburg
(Concentra) (10.71 %), De Standaard
(Corelio) (9.95 %), De Morgen
(De Persgroep) (5.99 %) and De Tijd
(Mediafin
) (4.08 %). Mediafin is a joint venture of De Persgroep and Groupe Rossel.
Major French-language daily newspapers in 2008 are La Dernière Heure
(IPM) (16.1 %), Le Soir
(Groupe Rossel) (16.0 %), Vers l'Avenir (Corelio) (15.8 %), La Libre Belgique
(IPM) (8.3 %), L'Echo
(Mediafin) (3.7 %) and La Meuse (newspaper) (Groupe Rossel), La Capitale
(Groupe Rossel), La Nouvelle Gazette (Groupe Rossel), La Province (Groupe Rossel) and Nord Eclair (Groupe Rossel) (22.0 %).
The only major German-language daily newspaper in 2008 is Grenz Echo (Groupe Rossel).
Metro (Belgian newspaper)
(Concentra) is a major daily free newspaper in a Dutch and French edition.
(227,614), Libelle (magazine) (Sanoma Belgium) (216,506), TV-Blad (158,283), Story (Belgian magazine) (Sanoma Belgium) (159,833), Plus Magazine (Belgium) (134,242), TV-Familie/Blik (129,328), Flair (magazine) (Sanoma Belgium) (126,831), Knack (magazine)
(Roularta Media Group) (126,646), Trends (magazine) (Roularta Media Group), 't Pallieterke
, ... .
Major French-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Trends/Tendance (Roularta Media Group), Le Vif/L'Express (Roularta Media Group), Télé Moustique (Sanoma Belgium), Femmes d'Aujourd'hui
(Sanoma Belgium), ... .
Numerous by-weekly and montly magazines exist. E.g. Eos Magazine and P-Magazine.
s in Belgium, serving 5.22 million internet users in 2007. The country code for Belgian websites is .be
.
In September 2009 in Flanders there were 3.048.260 single broadband internet customers (DSL and cable), of which 2.520.481 were residential users and 527.779 business users. Only 65.175 single call in-lines remained in the residential market and 9.580 in the business market.
Belgium has numerous copper cable internet providers:
Only Belgacom currently offers fixed telephony and digital television
in a triple play
formula. All other companies offer also fixed telephony in a duo play formula.
Belgium has three major fiberglas cable internet providers:
These companies all offer fixed telephony and digital television
in a triple play
formula.
These companies all offer specialised services.
Other ISP are Chat.be, Combell, Connexeon, HostIT, Microsoft Belgium, Netlog
, Ulysse, Ven Brussels, Rack66 (EUSIP bvba), WSD Hosting.
, and one Eutelsat
.
. These are:
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
possesses the infrastructure for both mobile and land-based telecom, as well as having significant television, radio and internet infrastructure. The country code
Country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...
for Belgium is BE.
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group
Belgian Post Group
Bpost is the Belgian company responsible for the delivery of mail, national and international. The Belgian Post Group is one of the largest civilian employers in Belgium...
, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g
Gram
The gram is a metric system unit of mass....
weight. Competitors include DHL
DHL
DHL Express is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post providing international express mail services. DHL is a world market leader in sea and air mail....
and UPS
United Parcel Service
United Parcel Service, Inc. , typically referred to by the acronym UPS, is a package delivery company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the...
.
Postal codes in Belgium
Postal codes in Belgium
Postal codes in Belgium are numeric and consist of 4 numbers. The first digit indicates the province...
consist of four digits which indicate regional areas, e.g. "9000" is the postal code for Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
.
Telephone
The telephone system itself is highly developed and technologically advanced, with full automation in facilities that handle domestic and international telecom. Domestically speaking, the county has a nationwide cellular telephone system and an extensive network of telephone cables. Telephone regulation is a national competency.The country code
Country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...
for Belgium is 32 and the international call prefix is 00.
A telephone number
Telephone number
A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network. When telephone numbers were invented, they were short — as few as one, two or three digits — and were given orally to a switchboard operator...
in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
is a sequence of nine or ten numbers dialled on a telephone to make a call on the telephone network in Belgium. Belgium is under a closed telephone numbering plan, but retains the trunk code, "0", for all national dialling.
Fixed telephones
There were 4.668 million land telephoneTelephone
The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...
lines in use in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
in 2007, a slight decrease on the 4.769 million in use in 1997.
The majority state-owned public telephone company
Telephone company
A telephone company is a service provider of telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many were at one time nationalized or state-regulated monopolies...
of Belgium is Belgacom
Belgacom
The Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share...
. Some other or private operators exist, as Scarlet
Scarlet (telco)
Scarlet is a telecommunications company active in The Netherlands and Belgium as an Internet Service Provider and provider of fixed and mobile telephony. It has minor operations in Luxembourg, Curaçao and Sint-Maarten....
(Belgacom
Belgacom
The Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share...
) and BASE
BASE (mobile)
BASE is a telephony services and broadband internet brand operated by KPN Group Belgium/KPN in Belgium and Germany.-Belgium:BASE is a brand of KPN Group Belgium....
(KPN
KPN
KPN is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company, including both 2G and 3G mobile operations...
).
Mobile telephones
Mobile telephone ownership has increased by nearly one thousand percent in the period 1997-2007, from 974,494 to 10.23 million.There are three licensed mobile network operator
Mobile network operator
A mobile network operator , also known as mobile phone operator , carrier service provider , wireless service provider, wireless carrier, or cellular company, or mobile network carrier is a telephone company that provides services for mobile phone subscribers.One essential...
s (MNO) in Belgium, Proximus
Proximus
Proximus, also known as Belgacom Mobile, is the largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Mobistar, owned by France Télécom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.-History:...
(Belgacom
Belgacom
The Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share...
), Mobistar
Mobistar
Mobistar is the second largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Proximus, owned by Belgian state owned telco Belgacom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.-History:...
(France Télécom
France Télécom
France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
) and BASE
BASE (mobile)
BASE is a telephony services and broadband internet brand operated by KPN Group Belgium/KPN in Belgium and Germany.-Belgium:BASE is a brand of KPN Group Belgium....
(KPN
KPN
KPN is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company, including both 2G and 3G mobile operations...
) and numerous mobile virtual network operator
Mobile virtual network operator
A mobile virtual network operator is a company that provides mobile phone services but does not have its own licensed frequency allocation of radio spectrum, nor does it necessarily have all of the infrastructure required to provide mobile telephone service...
s (MVNO).
A fourth license will be auctioned of by the government in January 2010.
Radio
In 1998, Belgium had 79 FMFM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
radio stations, 7 AM
Amplitude modulation
Amplitude modulation is a technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave. AM works by varying the strength of the transmitted signal in relation to the information being sent...
stations and 1 SW
Shortwave
Shortwave radio refers to the upper MF and all of the HF portion of the radio spectrum, between 1,800–30,000 kHz. Shortwave radio received its name because the wavelengths in this band are shorter than 200 m which marked the original upper limit of the medium frequency band first used...
station, serving 8.075 million radios owned in the country.
Transmission is primary by terrestrial broadcast antenna. Analoque transmissions are provided by Norkring Belgium, Broadcast Partners, D'Hont Noël and TVVV Sound. Digital transmissions are provided by Norkring Belgium. Digital cable operators and internet providers also provide radio signals. Satellite transmission is provided by TV Vlaanderen.
Public radio in Belgium is controlled by the VRT
Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep
The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie , or VRT, is a publicly-funded broadcaster of radio and television in Flanders ....
for the Dutch speaking region (Flanders
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
and Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
) the RTBF
RTBF
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone is the public broadcasting organization of the French Community of Belgium, the southern, French-speaking part of Belgium...
for the French speaking region (Wallonia and Brussels) and the BRF
Belgischer Rundfunk
Belgischer Rundfunk is the public-service broadcasting organization serving the German-speaking Community of Belgium...
for the German community
German-speaking Community of Belgium
The German-speaking Community of Belgium is one of the three federal communities of Belgium. Covering an area of 854 km² within the province of Liège in Wallonia, it includes nine of the eleven municipalities of the so-called East Cantons...
in Belgium.
Numerous private operators exist. The main competitor in the Flanders and Brussels regions is VMMa
Vlaamse Media Maatschappij
Vlaamse Media Maatschappij is a Belgian company, and parent company of the first Flemish commercial television station: vtm. VMMa was founded in 1987 as Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij by nine publishers each with a 11.1% share. Since 1998, De Persgroep and the Roularta Media Group each have a 50%...
. The main competitor in the Wallonia and Brussels regions is RTL Group
RTL Group
RTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 45 television and 32 radio stations in 11 countries...
.
Next to these regional channels, local channels exists. E.g. Radio 2 Limburg and GO FM
Go FM
Go FM may refer to:* the former name of Radio One FM 94.3, a radio station in India,* the current on-air brand name of CHGO-FM and CJGO-FM in the Canadian province of Quebec....
.
In 2009 radio market share in the Dutch speaking region was 63.08 % for the VRT channels (Radio 1
Radio 1 (Belgium)
Radio 1 is a Belgian radio channel operated by the Flemish public broadcaster Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep .-External links:* *...
, Radio 2
Radio 2 (Belgium)
Radio 2 is a Belgian radio channel operated by the Flemish public broadcaster Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep .In contrast to the more formal VRT Radio 1, Radio 2 features a more populist schedule aimed at a general family audience and is currently one of the most popular radio stations in...
, MNM, Studio Brussel
Studio Brussel
Studio Brussel is a radio station in Belgium, owned by the VRT. The music played is considered more alternative than the other big radio stations, and is aimed mainly at a youth audience....
and Klara, 23.13 % for the VMMa channels (Q-Music and Joe FM) and 2.65 % for the Corelio/Concentra joint venture channel (Radio Nostalgie).
Publicity management
Radio advertising is managed in house in most cases. Two radio advertising agencies operate, Vlaamse Audiovisuele Regie and IP Plurimedia.
Intellectual property rights
Intellectual property rights in Belgium are managed by SABAM
SABAM
SABAM is the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers. The acronym stands for "Société d’Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij"....
.
Television
Transmission is primary by fiberoptic or coax cable networkCable network
A cable channel is a television channel available via cable television. Such channels are usually also available via satellite television, including direct broadcast satellite providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network and BSkyB...
(DVB-C
DVB-C
DVB-C stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital television over cable...
) or copper telephone line
Telephone line
A telephone line or telephone circuit is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system...
(xDSL). Terrestrial transmission (DVB-T
DVB-T
DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in the UK in 1998...
) also exists. In terms of television, there were 25 broadcast stations in 1997, and a further 10 repeaters. This digital terrestrial network is owned by Norking Belgium
Norkring
is a Norwegian company owned by Telenor. The Norwegian part of the company is responsible for the terrestrial broadcast of radio and television channels in Norway. The company operates 6,500 antennas and 47 main stations. Norkring has built out the DTT and operates the DTT network in Norway with 5...
. Small operators of analog networks exist. Satellite transmission (DVB-S
DVB-S
DVB-S is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Satellite; it is the original Digital Video Broadcasting forward error coding and demodulation standard for satellite television and dates from 1994, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997...
) in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia is operated by Airfield Belgium or Digidream. MNO's Proximus
Proximus
Proximus, also known as Belgacom Mobile, is the largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Mobistar, owned by France Télécom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.-History:...
and Mobistar
Mobistar
Mobistar is the second largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Proximus, owned by Belgian state owned telco Belgacom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.-History:...
offer digital television over mobile phone (DVB-H
DVB-H
DVB-H is one of three prevalent mobile TV formats. It is a technical specification for bringing broadcast services to mobile handsets. DVB-H was formally adopted as ETSI standard EN 302 304 in November 2004. The DVB-H specification can be downloaded from the official DVB-H website...
).
In 1997, 4.72 million televisions were owned nationwide.
Public television in Belgium is controlled by the VRT
Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep
The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie , or VRT, is a publicly-funded broadcaster of radio and television in Flanders ....
for the Dutch speaking region (Flanders
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
and Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
) the RTBF
RTBF
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone is the public broadcasting organization of the French Community of Belgium, the southern, French-speaking part of Belgium...
for the French speaking region (Wallonia and Brussels) and the BRF
Belgischer Rundfunk
Belgischer Rundfunk is the public-service broadcasting organization serving the German-speaking Community of Belgium...
for the German community
German-speaking Community of Belgium
The German-speaking Community of Belgium is one of the three federal communities of Belgium. Covering an area of 854 km² within the province of Liège in Wallonia, it includes nine of the eleven municipalities of the so-called East Cantons...
in Belgium.
Numerous private operators exist. The main competitors in the Flanders and Brussels regions are VMMa
Vlaamse Media Maatschappij
Vlaamse Media Maatschappij is a Belgian company, and parent company of the first Flemish commercial television station: vtm. VMMa was founded in 1987 as Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij by nine publishers each with a 11.1% share. Since 1998, De Persgroep and the Roularta Media Group each have a 50%...
, SBS Belgium
SBS Broadcasting Group
SBS Broadcasting Group was a European broadcasting group, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses in Western and Central and Eastern Europe...
and Media ad Infinitum. VMMa is a joint venture of De Persgroep
De Persgroep
De Persgroep NV is a Flemish media company owned by the Van Thillo family. In 1978 the family obtained 60 percent of shares in the publishing company Hoste...
and Roularta Media Group. The main competitors in the Wallonia and Brussels regions are RTL Group
RTL Group
RTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 45 television and 32 radio stations in 11 countries...
and AB Groupe
AB Groupe
The AB Groupe is a French business group in the field of broadcasting. It was founded in 1977 by Jean-Luc Azoulay and Claude Berda as a music production company, and in 1987 went into the world of television.- Television :-External links:* *...
.
Next to these regional channels, local channels exists. E.g. TV Oost and ROB TV.
In Flanders, VRT channels Een
Een
Een is a village in the Netherlands. It is part of the Noordenveld municipality in Drenthe. Een has an altitude of 6 meters ....
, Ketnet/Canvas) had a combined market share of 40.0 % in 2008, VMMa channels (VTM
VTM
The abbreviation VTM may refer to::* Vampire: The Masquerade, a popular role-playing game* Virginia Tech massacre* vtm, the main commercial television station in Flanders, Belgium...
, 2BE and JIM
JIM (Flemish TV channel)
JIM is a Flemish television channel that is aimed at people aged between 15 and 24. It's actually an abbreviation for "Jong, Interactief en Meer" . During its first years, the channel mainly broadcast music videos...
) 27.27 %, SBS Belgium channels (VT4
VT4
VT4 is a Flemish commercial television channel. It is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.The channel began broadcasting on 1 February 1995. The channel initially had no Belgian broadcasting license and was transmitted via London . The channel now broadcasts legally from Zaventem in Belgium...
and Vijf TV) 10.91 % and Media ad Infinitum (Vitaya
Vitaya
Vitaya is a Flemish television station. The station got its license for 9 years in 1999 and it started to broadcast on 25 August 2000.Vitaya can be seen on Flemish cable and satellite services...
and Vitaliteit) 3,64 %.
Content providers
There are numerous public and private media companies that specialise as producer or distributor of channels, content and video services. E.g. Studio 100
Studio 100
Studio 100 is a Flemish company that produces popular children's television series and owns five amusement parks and four musical ensembles.-History:Studio 100 was founded in 1996 by Gert Verhulst, Danny Verbiest, and Hans Bourlon...
and Woestijnvis
Woestijnvis
Woestijnvis is an independent Flemish television production company.-History:The name of the company refers to a famous mistake of a quiz-candidate in the Flemish version of Wheel of Fortune: the remaining letters were W . . ST . . NV . S and somebody answered "WOESTIJNVIS" , the correct answer...
.
Production facility providers
There are numerous public and private media companies that specialise as producer or distributor of television production facilities. E.g. Alfacam and Videohouse.
Publicity management
Radio advertising is managed in house in most cases. Four radio advertising agencies operate, Vlaamse Audiovisuele Regie, RMB, RTVM and ORR
Orr
-Acronyms:*Office of Rail Regulation, UK government agency*Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the United States Administration for Children and Families*Offshore Racing Rules, system to permit different sailboats racing against each other...
.
Intellectual property rights
Intellectual property rights in Belgium are managed by SABAM
SABAM
SABAM is the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers. The acronym stands for "Société d’Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij"....
.
Printed press
Major newspaperNewspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
s and magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
s in Belgium are printed monolingual either in Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
or in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. Bilingual publications are very minor.
Belgium's major news agency
News agency
A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to news organizations: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service.-History:The oldest news agency is Agence...
is Belga (news agency)
Belga (news agency)
Belga is a Belgian news agency. Belga was founded in 1920 as "Agence télégraphique belge de presse" by Pierre-Marie Olivier and Maurice Travailleur. Seat : 8B Frédéric Pelletier Street, 1030 Schaerbeek - External link :*...
. Minor news agencies exist. Belgium's major photo agencies are Isopix and Photo News.
Important distributors in Belgium are AMP, Deltamedia, Belgian Post Group
Belgian Post Group
Bpost is the Belgian company responsible for the delivery of mail, national and international. The Belgian Post Group is one of the largest civilian employers in Belgium...
, Belgische Distributiedienst and Press Shop.
Press advertising is managed in house in most cases. Private advertising agencies operate, e.g. Scripta
Scripta
Scripta may stand for:* Jussi Halla-aho's Finnish-language blog Scripta* The owner of Hungarian-language Romanian newspaper Új Magyar SzóOther Scriptas:* Scripta continua aka word divider...
, IP Plurimedia or Mediashake.
Newspapers
Major Dutch-language daily newspapers in 2008 are Het Laatste NieuwsHet Laatste Nieuws
Het Laatste Nieuws is a Dutch language newspaper based in Brussels, Belgium. It was founded by Julius Hoste Sr. on 7 June 1888. It is now part of De Persgroep, and has a circulation of 292,410 copies, making it the most popular newspaper in Flanders and Belgium.- Comics :During World War II, The...
(De Persgroep) (30.96 %), Het Nieuwsblad
Het Nieuwsblad
Het Nieuwsblad is a Belgian newspaper that mainly focusses on "a broad view" regarding politics, culture, economics, lifestyle, society and sports.-Mission statement:...
(Corelio) (27.04 %), Gazet van Antwerpen
Gazet van Antwerpen
The Gazet van Antwerpen is a Belgian newspaper in Antwerp and Flanders, published by Concentra.-History:...
(Concentra) (11.27 %), Het Belang van Limburg
Het Belang van Limburg
Het Belang van Limburg is a Belgian regional newspaper. The newspaper was founded in 1933 as a merger of a few weekly magazines.- External links :* *...
(Concentra) (10.71 %), De Standaard
De Standaard
De Standaard is a Flemish daily newspaper published in Belgium by Corelio . Circulation was about 102.280 in 2007. It was traditionally a Christian-Democratic paper, associated with the Christian-Democratic and Flemish Party, and in opposition to the Socialist Flemish daily De Morgen...
(Corelio) (9.95 %), De Morgen
De Morgen
De Morgen is a Flemish newspaper with a circulation of 53,860. It originates from a merger in 1978 of two socialist newspapers Vooruit and Volksgazet ....
(De Persgroep) (5.99 %) and De Tijd
De Tijd
De Tijd , formerly De Financieel-Economische Tijd , is a Belgian broadsheet newspaper that mainly focuses on business and economics...
(Mediafin
Mediafin
Mediafin is a Belgian media group. It publishes two daily newspapers: De Tijd, in Dutch, and L'Echo, in French. De Persgroep and Rossel each hold a fifty percent stake in Mediafin....
) (4.08 %). Mediafin is a joint venture of De Persgroep and Groupe Rossel.
Major French-language daily newspapers in 2008 are La Dernière Heure
La Dernière Heure
La Dernière Heure and "Les Sports" is a French general daily newspaper in Belgium....
(IPM) (16.1 %), Le Soir
Le Soir
Le Soir is a Berliner Format Belgian newspaper. Le Soir was founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel. It is the most popular Francophone newspaper in Belgium, and considered a newspaper of record.-Editorial stance:...
(Groupe Rossel) (16.0 %), Vers l'Avenir (Corelio) (15.8 %), La Libre Belgique
La Libre Belgique
La Libre Belgique is a Belgian newspaper in French. In Belgium, it can be roughly seen as an equivalent of Flemish De Standaard. The paper is widely perceived as pro-catholic...
(IPM) (8.3 %), L'Echo
L'Echo
L'Echo is a Belgian newspaper, published by Mediafin and mainly distributed in Wallonia and Brussels. It is the French counterpart of the Flemish daily De Tijd....
(Mediafin) (3.7 %) and La Meuse (newspaper) (Groupe Rossel), La Capitale
La Capitale
- External links :*...
(Groupe Rossel), La Nouvelle Gazette (Groupe Rossel), La Province (Groupe Rossel) and Nord Eclair (Groupe Rossel) (22.0 %).
The only major German-language daily newspaper in 2008 is Grenz Echo (Groupe Rossel).
Metro (Belgian newspaper)
Metro (Belgian newspaper)
Metro is a free newspaper in Belgium, distributed on working days and aiming in particular at 18-44 year old urban, active, mobile students and commuters. Separate Dutch and French-language versions, each with its own content, are according to the area's language available in railway stations,...
(Concentra) is a major daily free newspaper in a Dutch and French edition.
Magazines
Major Dutch-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Kerk en Leven (Drukkerij en Uitgeverij Halewijn) (409,817), Dag Allemaal (402,097), HUMOHUMO
HUMO is a popular Belgian weekly radio and television magazine, written in Dutch.Originally the magazine was titled Humoradio, a portmanteau of 'humor' and 'radio'....
(227,614), Libelle (magazine) (Sanoma Belgium) (216,506), TV-Blad (158,283), Story (Belgian magazine) (Sanoma Belgium) (159,833), Plus Magazine (Belgium) (134,242), TV-Familie/Blik (129,328), Flair (magazine) (Sanoma Belgium) (126,831), Knack (magazine)
Knack (magazine)
Knack is a Belgian weekly newsmagazine covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events.It was founded in 1971 and quickly grew out to be a leading Belgian magazine. Currently it has a circulation of about 121.780....
(Roularta Media Group) (126,646), Trends (magazine) (Roularta Media Group), 't Pallieterke
't Pallieterke
t Pallieterke is a satirical Flemish weekly. It is part of the Flemish movement and advocates Flemish independence. It is largely conservative in its editing, and although officially non-partisan, it is a close supporter of the far-right party Vlaams Belang....
, ... .
Major French-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Trends/Tendance (Roularta Media Group), Le Vif/L'Express (Roularta Media Group), Télé Moustique (Sanoma Belgium), Femmes d'Aujourd'hui
Femmes d'aujourd'hui
Femmes d'aujourd'hui is the second studio album by Jeanne Mas, released in April 1986 by Pathé Marconi. As for the previous album, all texts were written by Romano Musumarra. The French singer Daniel Balavoine also participated in the production of the album...
(Sanoma Belgium), ... .
Numerous by-weekly and montly magazines exist. E.g. Eos Magazine and P-Magazine.
Internet
There were 61 (2003) internet service providerInternet service provider
An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
s in Belgium, serving 5.22 million internet users in 2007. The country code for Belgian websites is .be
.be
.be is the Internet country code top-level domain for Belgium. The domain became active in 1989 and was administrated by Pierre Verbaeten of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 2000, the control of the TLD was transferred to DNS Belgium...
.
In September 2009 in Flanders there were 3.048.260 single broadband internet customers (DSL and cable), of which 2.520.481 were residential users and 527.779 business users. Only 65.175 single call in-lines remained in the residential market and 9.580 in the business market.
xDSL Internet Providers
Belgium has numerous copper cable internet providers:
- Altercom
- BASEBASE (mobile)BASE is a telephony services and broadband internet brand operated by KPN Group Belgium/KPN in Belgium and Germany.-Belgium:BASE is a brand of KPN Group Belgium....
(KPNKPNKPN is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company, including both 2G and 3G mobile operations...
) - BelgacomBelgacomThe Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share...
- Destiny
- EDPnetEDPnetEdpnet is an independent Belgian telecom provider that offers services worldwide. The company focuses on three markets: retail , business to business and wholesale...
- Evonet
- Full Telecom
- InterxionInterxionInterxion is a European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services. Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands, the firm was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 28, 2011...
- LCL
- MobistarMobistarMobistar is the second largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Proximus, owned by Belgian state owned telco Belgacom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.-History:...
(France TélécomFrance TélécomFrance Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
) - Perceval
- Portima
- Proximedia
- ScarletScarlet (telco)Scarlet is a telecommunications company active in The Netherlands and Belgium as an Internet Service Provider and provider of fixed and mobile telephony. It has minor operations in Luxembourg, Curaçao and Sint-Maarten....
(BelgacomBelgacomThe Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share...
) - Verizon BusinessVerizon BusinessVerizon Business is one of three operating units of Verizon Communications It was created in 2006 when Verizon Communications closed on its merger with MCI, Inc..Verizon Business has over 30,000 employees with 321 offices in 75 countries...
(Verizon CommunicationsVerizon CommunicationsVerizon Communications Inc. is a global broadband and telecommunications company and a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
)
Only Belgacom currently offers fixed telephony and digital television
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
in a triple play
Triple play (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...
formula. All other companies offer also fixed telephony in a duo play formula.
Cable Internet Providers
Belgium has three major fiberglas cable internet providers:
- NuméricableNumericableNumericable is a British-American-Luxembourgian owned cable television operator operating in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, currently proposing standard quadruple-play services .- History :...
for the Brussels region (Ypso Holding) - TelenetTelenet (Belgium)Telenet Group is the largest provider of broadband cable services in Belgium. Its business comprises the provision of analog and digital cable television, high speed internet and fixed and mobile telephony services, primarily to residential customers in Flanders and Brussels...
for the Flanders and Brussels regions (Liberty Global) - VOOVooVoo may refer to:* Voo Voo - a Polish jazz-rock band formed in 1985.* Voo Nocturno - the thirteenth album by Jorge Palma.* Vo0 - a nickname of electronic sports player Sander Kaasjager....
for the Walloon and Brussels regions (TECTEO)
These companies all offer fixed telephony and digital television
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
in a triple play
Triple play (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...
formula.
- CIRB for the Brussels region
- Interoute Managed Services
- InterxionInterxionInterxion is a European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services. Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands, the firm was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 28, 2011...
- LCL
- Nucleus
- Verizon BusinessVerizon BusinessVerizon Business is one of three operating units of Verizon Communications It was created in 2006 when Verizon Communications closed on its merger with MCI, Inc..Verizon Business has over 30,000 employees with 321 offices in 75 countries...
(Verizon CommunicationsVerizon CommunicationsVerizon Communications Inc. is a global broadband and telecommunications company and a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
)
These companies all offer specialised services.
Terrestrial Internet Providers
- ClearwireClearwireClearwire Corporation is a wireless internet service provider serving markets in the United States, Belgium, and Spain...
in BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, GhentGhentGhent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
, LeuvenLeuvenLeuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...
, AalstAalst, BelgiumAalst is a city and municipality on the Dender River, 19 miles northwest from Brussels. It is located in the Flemish province of East Flanders in the Denderstreek. The municipality comprises the city of Aalst itself and the villages of Baardegem, Erembodegem, Gijzegem, Herdersem, Hofstade,...
, HalleHalle, BelgiumHalle , is a Belgian city and municipality in the district Halle-Vilvoorde of the province Flemish Brabant. The city is located on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal and on the Flemish side of the language border that separates Flanders and Wallonia...
and VilvoordeVilvoordeVilvoorde is a Belgian municipality in the Flemish province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the city of Vilvoorde proper with its two outlying quarters of Koningslo and Houtem and the small town of Peutie...
(Sprint NextelSprint NextelSprint Nextel Corporation is an American telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates Sprint, the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, with 53.4 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility...
) - Perceval
Not categorized
Other ISP are Chat.be, Combell, Connexeon, HostIT, Microsoft Belgium, Netlog
Netlog
Netlog is a Belgian social networking website specifically targeted at the European youth demographic....
, Ulysse, Ven Brussels, Rack66 (EUSIP bvba), WSD Hosting.
Popular websites
The most popular internet websites accessed from a Belgian ISP in 2008 are:- google.be
- facebook.com
- live.comLive.comWindows Live Personalized Experience was a customizable portal launched by Microsoft in early November 2005. It was one of the first Windows Live services to launch.- Features :...
- youtube.com
- google.com
- skyrock.com
- msn.com
- yahoo.com
- netlog.com
- google.fr
- ebay.be
- wikipedia.org
- dailymotion.com
- blogger.com
- partypoker.com
Other
The microwave relay network is, however, more limited. For international communications, Belgium has 5 submarine cables and a number of satellite earth stations, two of which are IntelsatIntelsat
Intelsat, Ltd. is a communications satellite services provider.Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization , it was—from 1964 to 2001—an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast...
, and one Eutelsat
Eutelsat
Eutelsat S.A. is a French-based satellite provider. Providing coverage over the entire European continent, as well as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the Americas, it is one of the world's three leading satellite operators in terms of revenues.Eutelsat’s satellites...
.
Media Groups
In 2009 Belgium has 20 major media companies active in numerous telecommunications media subsectorsConcentration of media ownership
Concentration of media ownership refers to a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media...
. These are:
- Alfacam Group (Gabriël FehervariGabriel FehervariGabriel Fehervari is a Belgian businessman and CEO of the Alfacam Group, which consists of three divisions: Alfacam, Euro1080 and Eurolinx. He is the son of Hungarian immigrants...
) - Belgacom GroupBelgacomThe Belgacom Group is the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, headquartered in Brussels. Belgacom Group is primarily state owned, with the Belgian state holding 53.3% + 1 share...
(Belgian state) - Concentra Media Groep (Tony Baert)
- CorelioCorelioCorelio is a Belgian media group, formerly known as the Vlaamse Uitgeversmaatschappij . The group was founded on 26 June 1976 by André Leysen, together with other Flemish businesspeople...
(Christian LeysenChristian LeysenChristian Leysen is a Belgian businessman. He obtained a Commercial engineer - Masters degree in Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1976. There he was president of the fraternity "$olvay" in 1974-1975 . Christian Leysen developed several Belgian ventures to large international companies...
) - De PersgroepDe PersgroepDe Persgroep NV is a Flemish media company owned by the Van Thillo family. In 1978 the family obtained 60 percent of shares in the publishing company Hoste...
(Christian Van ThilloChristian Van ThilloChristian Van Thillo is a Belgian businessman. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Aurex-De Persgroep, a leading Belgian media concern, which owns the Belgian newspapers Het Laatste Nieuws and De Morgen. De Persgroep also owns part of the Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij a Belgian commercial...
) - Roularta Media Group (Rik De NolfRik De NolfRik De Nolf is a Belgian businessman. He is the CEO of Roularta Media Group, which is a Belgian-French publishing and printing firm with a diversified portfolio of interests in magazines, a regional newspaper, radio and both regional and national commercial television.Rik De Nolf is the son of...
) - Sanoma Belgium (Sanoma WSOY)
- SBS BelgiumSBS Broadcasting GroupSBS Broadcasting Group was a European broadcasting group, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses in Western and Central and Eastern Europe...
(ProSiebenSat.1 MediaProSiebenSat.1 MediaProSiebenSat.1 Media AG is a European media conglomerate, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses. It was formed on October 2, 2000 by merger of German TV broadcasters ProSieben Media AG and Sat.1 SatellitenFernsehen GmbH...
) - TelenetTelenet (Belgium)Telenet Group is the largest provider of broadband cable services in Belgium. Its business comprises the provision of analog and digital cable television, high speed internet and fixed and mobile telephony services, primarily to residential customers in Flanders and Brussels...
(Liberty Global) - VRTVlaamse Radio- en TelevisieomroepThe Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie , or VRT, is a publicly-funded broadcaster of radio and television in Flanders ....
(Flemish community) - Rossel et CieRossel (Belgium)Rossel is a major media group in Brussels and Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium. The daily newspaper Le Soir is one of their main and most successful publications...
- VOOVooVoo may refer to:* Voo Voo - a Polish jazz-rock band formed in 1985.* Voo Nocturno - the thirteenth album by Jorge Palma.* Vo0 - a nickname of electronic sports player Sander Kaasjager....
(TECTEO) (Walloon region) - NumericableNumericableNumericable is a British-American-Luxembourgian owned cable television operator operating in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, currently proposing standard quadruple-play services .- History :...
(Ypso Holding) - RTBFRTBFRadio Télévision Belge Francophone is the public broadcasting organization of the French Community of Belgium, the southern, French-speaking part of Belgium...
(French community) - RTL GroupRTL GroupRTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 45 television and 32 radio stations in 11 countries...
(BertelsmannBertelsmannBertelsmann AG is a multinational media corporation founded in 1835, based in Gütersloh, Germany. The company operates in 63 countries and employs 102,983 workers , which makes it the most international media corporation in the world. In 2008 the company reported a €16.118 billion consolidated...
) - MobistarMobistarMobistar is the second largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Proximus, owned by Belgian state owned telco Belgacom, and Base, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN.-History:...
(France TelecomFrance TélécomFrance Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
) - BASEBASE (mobile)BASE is a telephony services and broadband internet brand operated by KPN Group Belgium/KPN in Belgium and Germany.-Belgium:BASE is a brand of KPN Group Belgium....
(KPN GroupKPNKPN is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company, including both 2G and 3G mobile operations...
) - Groupe IPM (Patrice Le Honey)
- AB GroupeAB GroupeThe AB Groupe is a French business group in the field of broadcasting. It was founded in 1977 by Jean-Luc Azoulay and Claude Berda as a music production company, and in 1987 went into the world of television.- Television :-External links:* *...
(Claude Berda) - Groupe Lagadère
External links
Much of the material in this article is adapted from the CIA World Factbook.- BIPT - Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications
- ISPA - Internet Service Providers Association of Belgium
- DNS - Domain Name System Belgium
- MAVISE - Belgian TV market
- Agoria - Federation of Belgian IT Employers
- Beltug - Federation of Belgian ICT Professionals
- UPP - Union of Belgian Periodical Press Publishers
- Febelma - Belgian Federation of Magazines
- VRM - Flemish Media Regulator (Dutch community)
- CSA - High Council for the Audiovisual Media (French community)
- MDGB - Germanic Media Council of Belgium (Germanic community)