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Arte Belgique is the Belgian version of the French-German cultural television channel Arte.

History
On 1 January 1995, Arte Belgique was founded due to the wish of the French Community of Belgium, RTBF and La Sept to promote the cultural world of French-speaking Belgium with the ambition to become the unmissable meeting place of creators from or working in Belgium. RTBF had in fact been the first associate member of Arte after its founding in 1992 by La Sept and Arte Deutschland TV Gmbh, and reinforced this partnership by launching a Belgian regional subsidiary in order to decentralize the channel's French-German focus.

After being suspended for a number of years because of the breakdown of the partnership with Arte, Arte Belgique was relaunched on the cable networks of the French Community of Belgium (Wallonia and Brussels) on 25 September 2006, replacing the transmission of the French version of Arte. Unlike other RTBF channels, Arte Belgique is not broadcast over the air.

Since September 2011, Flemish programmes have been transmitted in association with VRT. The monthly show Quai des Belges has Dutch subtitles, and a parallel Flemish programme Vlaams Kaai has been created.

In 2015, Arte Belgique became almost a hollow shell after the loss of two thirds of its subsidies and the cancellation of its daily Cinquante degrés nord and monthly Quai des Belges / Vlaams Kaai shows. However, the channel survives with a new bi-monthly show called Tout le Baz'Art, launched in September 2015.

Budget
Arte Belgique received an annual allocation of 2.6 million euros from the French Community of Belgium for its two magazine shows.

Current show
Since September 2015, Arte Belgique retransmits almost all the shows of Arte France. The channel offers a local broadcast on Sunday at 5pm: Tout le Baz'Art, a bi-monthly magazine show followed by a documentary produced by RTBF. The show is rebroadcast on La Trois on Thursday at 10.30pm.

Former shows

 * Quai des Belges: monthly 90-minute cultural magazine broadcast on the last Wednesday of the month at 10.40pm, modelled on Arte's Théma. The theme was linked with current cultural developments or social issues and Belgian politics. The show was hosted by Hadja Lhabib. From 2011, it had Dutch subtitles.
 * Vlaams Kaai: the Dutch-language version of Quai des Belges, hosted by writer and playwright David Van Reybrouck and Hadja Lhabib. She presented cultural reports made by the Flemish channel Canvas.