Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie


The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie, or VRT (, is the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Community of Belgium.

History

VRT is the successor to the Nationaal Instituut voor de Radio-omroep, Belgische Radio- en Televisieomroep, and Belgische Radio- en Televisieomroep Nederlandstalige Uitzendingen. The NIR and BRT had each been single state-owned entities with separate Dutch- and French-language production departments. However, in 1977, as part of the ongoing state reform in Belgium broadcasting became reserved to the language communities rather than the national government in 1977. Accordingly, BRT/RTB went their separate ways in 1977. While the former French half changed its name to RTBF in 1977, the Dutch side retained the BRT name until becoming BRTN in 1991. However, the two broadcasters share production facilities on Auguste Reyerslaan in Brussels.
The final renaming to VRT, on 1 January 1998, followed a change in the organization's legal status: from being part of a semi-governmental entity it had, on 16 April 1997, became a publicly owned corporation in its own right.
As successors to the NIR/INR, VRT and its counterpart in the French Community of Belgium, RTBF, share the Belgian membership in the European Broadcasting Union – an association of public broadcasters in the countries of Europe and the Mediterranean rim that, amongst other activities, organizes the annual Eurovision Song Contest.
With the ending of its television monopoly – marked by the creation of VTM, a commercial television company that initially captured more than half of VRT's audience – the public broadcaster has been compelled to fight back, and part of its successful response has been the use of external production houses such as Woestijnvis, the creator of such formats as The Mole and .

Logo history

1930-1960

1953-1960

1960-1978

1977-1991

1991-1998

1998-2002

2002-2017

2017-2026

Television channels

Television channels are transmitted on:
The VRT broadcasts radio channels in both analog format and digital format. All channels are also broadcast live over the Internet.
International broadcasting was done via VRT's Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal.

Analog and digital

They also have a TMC service transmitted on Radio 2.