La Deux
| La Deux | |
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| Launched | 31 October 1958 |
| Owned by | RTBF |
| Slogan | Deux fois plus de plaisir (Twice the fun) |
| Country | Belgium |
| Language | French |
| Formerly called |
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| Sister channel(s) | La Une, La Trois |
| Website | Official site of La Deux |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| RTBF DVB-T (FTA) | Channel 2 |
| Satellite | |
| TéléSAT | Channel 2 |
| TV Vlaanderen | 60 |
| Cable | |
| Numericable (Flanders) | Channel 32 |
| Numericable (Wallonia) | Channel 2 |
| Numericable | Channel 21 |
| VOO Digital (Wallonia) | Channel 502 (HD) Channel 2 |
| IPTV | |
| Belgacom TV (VDSL) | Channel 2 Channel 221 |
La Deux – (Channel) Two – is a Belgian national television channel, owned and operated by the French-language public-service broadcasting organization RTBF.
On 26 March 1977, La Deux was launched as RTbis, broadcasting only repeats of RTBF 1 programmes, and remained on air until 1979. [1]
In 1979, RTbis was replaced by Télé 2 (RTBF TV2) which was on air until 1988.
On 21 March 1988, Télé 2 was replaced by Télé 21 and stayed on air under that name. This channel no longer simulcast on Sundays with its main channel, RTBF 1, however, it continued to simulcast its main 7:30pm nightly news bulletin with RTBF 1 with sign language and repeated after its 8:00pm shows which included movies and documentaries. Its programming consisted of live events (mainly sports) and broadcasting films, music and social and cultural documentaries.
In 1993, Télé 21 split into two channels, Arte 21 and Sports 21 (which took over Télé 21's frequency), both channels broadcast until March 1994 when the contract between RTBF and Arte were suspended at that time.
On March 1994, RTBF Arte 21-RTBF Sports 21 became Télé 21 again and brought back its previous format from 1988 and children's programmes were later included on this channel such as "Ici Bla-Bla", which was also shown on its sister channel, RTBF 1 (until 2004). The show remained on air until September 2010, where all children's programmes were transferred to La Trois.
By the end of October 1994, Télé 21 was simply known as 21.
On 1 March 1997, RTBF 21 split for the second time, but this time, it was known as Eurosport 21, which became more of an events channel and simulcast with Eurosport on some days. Because of this several programmes moved to a new channel called RTBF La 2, which took over this frequency. RTBF La 2's programming consists of documentaries, cultural, live sports or non-sports coverage. During the FIFA World Cup 1998, RTBF decided to air all matches on its two main channels, La 1 and La 2. So that the wider public had access to the full coverage, it later redistributed to transmitters that transmitted La Une and La Deux on cable networks and also by analogue terrestrial and radio, on the whole territory of the French Community of Belgium. This scheme continued after the World Cup, by the Board of Directors on July 13, 1998. RTBF Eurosport 21 ceased transmission on February 1999, when a contract between RTBF and Eurosport was broken and caused all sports content to be broadcast on both free-to-air channels, La 1 and La 2.
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