There are no national TV channels in Belgium. Because of the language divide, there are only channels either in Dutch or French, there is no single company operating TV channels in both the Flemish and the French part. Media laws are created and controlled on a regional level Flemish or French. Thus the Flemish channels are controlled by Flemish law and the French-speaking ones are controlled by the French community.
The public broadcasters still share a building in Brussels, a leftover from the time when the Public Television was still a national Belgian competence, however, they have split operations altogether with French language broadcaster RTBF occupying the right half of the building and Flemish broadcaster VRT occupying the left half of the building. They are both governed by different law and a different parliament an example of this is the fact that the French languages public broadcaster RTBF is allowed to sell advertising on television and have actual ad breaks, while the Flemish public broadcaster can only sell product placement and sponsor billboards on television.
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On their radio channels both are allowed to sell full ad breaks. Both public broadcasters also work in a completely different competitive environment. The privately owned channels of the French community are not available on digital terrestrial television. In the Flemish part of Belgium all channels of the public tv VRT and the most important privately owned channels are available on all platforms including DVB-T2 , however the public TV is not available free of charge through DVB-T2 but part of a subscription service that includes the most important privately owned channels as well.
This subscription is offered by TV Vlaanderen which also offers satellite tv subscriptions. In the Flemish part there are three main broadcast groups: 1. SBS Belgium is the 2nd Flemish commercial group which runs the channels vier four , vijf five and zes six. Early the existing channels vier four , vijf five and zes six will be rebranded into Play Vier, Play Vijf and Play Zes, additionally a new channel Play Zeven Seven will launch.
Vier 4 also has started programming mainly local productions in the primetime slot. All other channels air a majority of international mostly US made productions in original language English with subtitles. The only exception is children's programming which is dubbed in Dutch.
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Apart from these main groups there are dozens of other local or localised versions of other channels. Local programming however is relatively limited in the French part.
Primetime is often filled with international shows dubbed in French or French tv shows. TF1 even has localised ad breaks.
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Local Belgian channels find it sometimes difficult to compete with French TV which has vastly larger production budgets due to the market size difference France having an addressable audience 15 times the size of the French part of Belgium but in the past years the local channels have been investing in local qualitative drama and entertainment which has increased market share and viewership. Apart from the channels listed above, most cable, satellite and IPTV platforms in Belgium distribute television stations from other European countries including the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
In total about 80 TV channels are available digitally. Current cable customers do not need to pay an extra subscription for about 35 digital channels, but they must purchase a set-top box in order to view these digital channels and use the interactive services. Telenet , the main cable operator in Flanders, also offers Dutch-language or Dutch-subtitled versions of Nick Jr. In Telenet already offered 15 HD channels on its digital network. Integan was fully integrated in the Telenet cable network from onwards.
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