Editing Public broadcasting (section)

==== Belgium ====
Belgium has three networks, one for each linguistic community:

* [[Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie|VRT]], Dutch
* [[RTBF]], French
* [[Belgischer Rundfunk|BRF]], German

Originally named INR {{snd}}[[:nl:Nationaal Instituut voor de Radio-omroep|''Institut national belge de radiodiffusion'']]{{snd}}the state-owned broadcasting organization was established by law on 18 June 1930. Television broadcasting from Brussels began in 1953, with two hours of programming each day. In 1960 the INR was subsumed into RTB ({{langx|fr|Radio-Télévision Belge}}) and BRT (lang-nl|Belgische Radio{{snd}}en Televisieomroep).

On 1 October 1945 INR-NIR began to broadcast some programmes in German. In 1961 RTB-BRT began a German-language radio channel, broadcasting from [[Liège]].

In 1977, following Belgian [[Federalism|federalization]] and the establishment of separate [[Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium|language communities]], the French-language section of RTB-BRT became RTBF ({{langx|fr|Radio-Télévision Belge de la Communauté française|links=no}}), German-language section became [[Belgischer Rundfunk|BRF]] ({{langx|de|Belgischer Rundfunk|links=no}}) and Dutch-language stays BRT.

BRT was renamed in 1991 to BRTN ({{langx|nl|Belgische Radio- en Televisieomroep Nederlandstalige Uitzendingen|links=no}}) and again in 1998 to VRT ({{langx|nl|Vlaamse Radio {{snd}}en Televisieomroeporganisatie}}).