La Première
Encyclopedia
La Première is a national French-language
radio channel produced by the Belgian public broadcasting organization Radio télévision belge de la communauté française (RTBF).
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.
It is broadcast on Medium wave, FM
, and digital (DAB
and DVB-T
), as well as being streamed on the internet
.
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...
radio channel produced by the Belgian public broadcasting organization Radio télévision belge de la communauté française (RTBF).
It is a "generalist" station carrying a wide range of principally spoken-word and information-based programming, and is RTBF's main radio news
Radio News
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channel.
It is broadcast on Medium wave, FM
Frequency modulation
In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its instantaneous frequency. This contrasts with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant...
, and digital (DAB
Digital audio broadcasting
Digital Audio Broadcasting is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,000 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format....
and 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...
), as well as being streamed on the internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
.