RTBF, also known as Belgian Radio-television of the French Community and Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française, is a state-owned entity headquartered in Belgium. Founded in 1953, the organization employs approximately 2,740 individuals and reported $523.0M in revenue as of 2024, operating as a tier 1 media tech buyer. The company specializes in broadcast television and radio, functioning as a public service broadcaster for the French-speaking Community of Belgium. Its operations include a Dutch-language counterpart, VRT (Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie), in the Flemish Community, and BRF (Belgischer Rundfunk) in the German-speaking Community.
On September 21, 2026, the Government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation formally appointed Orange Belgium Chief Consumer Officer Christophe Dujardin as the Administrator General of Belgian public broadcaster RTBF, a role he will assume on November 2. Previously, on September 18, RTBF migrated its ad monetization workflows from legacy CSAI and SSAI to a standards-based SGAI workflow built on HLS Interstitials. This deployment leveraged technology from Bitmovin and Ad Insertion Platform, with integral contributions from partners Red Bee Media, Dotscreen, and RMB. Earlier, on September 9, RTBF selected Heynen-Paneda as the supplier to modernize its DAB distribution platform following a public procurement process.
RTBF offers 4 products in the media and telecoms services industry. RTBF's product portfolio comprises of media and TV services and broadcast television and radio.
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RTBF's revenues were less than $1B in 2024. Caretta Research has split RTBF's revenue into 4 different product categories, the largest of which is linear TV advertising (national). For full access to RTBF's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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RTBF currently holds 76 broadcasting rights for sports competitions including futsal, sports sublicensing, beach soccer, athletics, soccer | association football, tennis, cyclo-cross, handball, winter sports, cycling, motorsports, basketball and multi-sport.
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