The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the
national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public
radio and television in France. All programming, and especially news
broadcasts, were under strict control of the national government.A
public monopoly on broadcasting in France had been established with
the formation of Radiodiffusion Française (RDF) in 1945. RDF was
renamed Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF) in 1949 and
replaced by the ORTF in 1964.A public monopoly on broadcasting in
France had been established with the formation of Radiodiffusion
Française (RDF) in 1945. RDF was renamed Radiodiffusion-Télévision
Française (RTF) in 1949 and replaced by the ORTF in 1964.In 1970,
during a press conference, Georges Pompidou, initiated a will to
modernize affirming that information to the ORTF must be free,
independent and impartial, while stressing that it remains "the voice
of France whether we like it or not. "From the beginning, the public
broadcaster experienced fierce competition from the "peripheral
stations": French-speaking stations aimed at the French public but
transmitting on longwave from neighbouring countries, such as Radio
Monte Carlo (RMC) from Monaco, Radio Luxembourg (later RTL) from
Luxembourg, and Europe 1 from Germany (exceptionally, in 1974, RMC was
allowed to set up a transmitter on French territory). Office de Radiodiffusion TÃ(c)lÃ(c)vision Française Top Movies & Young Movies