VivaCité


VivaCité is a Belgian public service radio station operated by RTBF. The station launched on 29 February 2004 from the merger of regional network Fréquence Wallonie and Brussels station Bruxelles Capitale. VivaCité is the French-language equivalent of VRT Radio 2.
WWW vivacite.be

Overview

VivaCité is a radio network, covering the French-speaking regions of Belgium, via six regional stations. Its programming is a mix of adult contemporary music with personality-driven shows and sports coverage in the evenings. All six stations air local programming in the morning between 5:30 and 8:30 weekdays, with evening drive coming from four locations.
Radiolène, a station based in Verviers was absorbed into the VivaCité network. Radiolène was created in 1982 as an experimental local station. It was severely reduced in 2004 by the Magellan Plan re-organisation of public radio, then closed as an independent station with three morning opt-out news bulletins remaining as local output.

Visual identity

Slogans

  • 2004: La nouvelle radio
  • 2004-2006: On a plein de choses à se dire
  • 2006: Au cœur de vos émotions
  • 2007-2009: En toute complicité
  • 2009: La radio complice
  • 2009: Et la vie va!
  • 2011: ''Ma radio complicité''

Reception

FM

VivaCité Brabant wallon
VivaCité Bruxelles
VivaCité Liège
VivaCité Charleroi
VivaCité Hainaut
VivaCité Namur
VivaCité Luxembourg

AM

  • 621 kHz - shared time with La Première, everyday between 20:00-23:00, within a radius of about from Wavre
  • 1125 kHz - within a radius of about from La Louvière

DAB+

Since the end of 2018, each local stations are available on DAB+ on their provincial block.
Until 2018, VivaCité was broadcast on DAB Block 12B. These were programmes that are broadcast by VivaCité Bruxelles which covers all of the French Community of Belgium.

Satellite

Digital terrestrial television

Internet