How we checked RTBF Classic 21
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. Nothing needed correcting. We also found 4 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Classic 21 is the classic rock channel of RTBF, Belgium's French language public broadcaster, and describes itself in its own words as "la radio Classic Rock de la RTBF". Beyond the main service it runs a set of its own thematic webradios, presented on its own pages as Classic 21 60's, Classic 21 70's, Classic 21 80's Hits, Classic 21 80's New Wave, Classic 21 90's, Classic 21 Metal, Classic 21 Blues, Classic 21 Live, Classic 21 Soulpower, Classic 21 Underground, Route66 and Noir Jaune Rock. It publishes its own rolling song history, its own concert diary and its own podcast collection.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Artists
taken from Classic 21's own song history page on the morning I read it, which was logging tracks live: Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, Elton John, Status Quo, Wallace Collection, Supertramp, Bruce Springsteen, Tony Joe White, Zucchero, The Cars, Duckblockers, The Doors, Saez, Talk Talk, The Beatles, Hooverphonic, Wheatus, Santana, Roy Orbison and Nirvana.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Contact route
yes, though not at channel level. Classic 21's own frequency page carries a "Nous contacter" section whose single route is "Contacter la RTBF", pointing at the broadcaster's own support site, which is where the channel sends its listeners. The channel's own pages additionally offer a song identification tool, "retrouver un titre", for listeners trying to name something they heard. No direct channel email address, studio telephone number or request line is published.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://support.rtbf.be/hc/fr-fr
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Era
the 1960s through the 1990s form the core, which is how the channel itself organises its webradios, decade by decade, from Classic 21 60's to Classic 21 90's.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Music
classic rock, with blues, metal, new wave and soul strands carried on its own themed webradios.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Language
French. This is the French language service of RTBF; its presentation, programme billing and site are in French, while the music is predominantly English language rock.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Kind
live presented output across the staffed day, with unpresented music strands overnight and in the early evening.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
the channel runs a dozen separate themed webradios under its own name, so "Classic 21" is a small network of its own inside RTBF rather than a single stream.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Where
Belgium, broadcasting to French speaking Belgium, on FM and DAB+. Its own frequency page lists 93.2 for Brussels and Walloon Brabant, 95.6 for the province of Liège, 104.6 for western Hainaut, 99.1 for the Charleroi and Mons area, 90.8 for the province of Namur, 87.6 for the Ardennes and southern Luxembourg province, 89.4 for La Roche-en-Ardenne and 90.0 for Marche-en-Famenne, and states that "Les programmes de Classic 21 sont disponibles en DAB+".
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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On air
named on Classic 21's own grid against Classic 21's own programmes only: Raphael Scaini on COFFEE ON THE ROCKS, Fanny Gillard on TEMPO, Marie-Amelie Mastin on LUNCH AROUND THE CLOCK, Dominique Ragheb on TIME MACHINE, Pierre Lorand on ON THE ROAD AGAIN, and Laurent Debeuf on UNDERGROUND and on SOUNDTRACK. GENERATION 80 and NIGHTFLY are billed with no presenter, and BEST OF CLASSICS is credited on the grid to "21 Classic" rather than to a person.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
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Programmes
the channel's own schedule grid, as the broadcaster served it, gives its weekday line-up as TIME MACHINE 05:30 to 06:00, COFFEE ON THE ROCKS 06:00 to 10:00, TEMPO 10:00 to 12:00, LUNCH AROUND THE CLOCK 12:00 to 15:00, TIME MACHINE 15:00 to 15:30, ON THE ROAD AGAIN 15:30 to 19:30, GENERATION 80 19:30 to 20:00, BEST OF CLASSICS 20:00 to 21:00, UNDERGROUND 21:00 to 23:00, and NIGHTFLY overnight from 23:00 to 05:30. Its own homepage separately bills SOUNDTRACK on Sundays from 9h00 to 12h00. Its recurring music news strand is Journal du Rock.
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RTBF Classic 21 (channel pages on the broadcaster's own site: the grid, the channel landing page, the song history at /classic21/retrouver-un-titre and the frequency page at /classic21/infos/frequences) | 2026 |
What we corrected
Nothing. This station's entry matched what its own site says, which is worth recording: a clean check is a result, not an absence of one.
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| RTBF's general presenters, its general programmes and the schedules of its sibling channels | the portal offers all of them on the same pages as Classic 21's own material. Every name and every programme above was taken from the grid served at the Classic 21 specific URL or from a Classic 21 branded page, and nothing was taken from the shared portal furniture.
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| anything belonging to RTBF La Première | the two channels are siblings on one portal and are the worst pairing in this batch for bleed. Their two blocks here were built from separate channel scoped URLs and share no material.
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| Dominique Dricot, who appears in sports content on the Classic 21 landing page | the page does not bill him as presenting a Classic 21 programme, so I have not listed him as a presenter of one.
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| today's date as the date of the published grid | the schedule page served me the same Thursday 24 September line-up no matter what date I asked for, including when I passed today's date explicitly, so what is above is the channel's current weekday grid and I have labelled it as the weekday line-up rather than as today's schedule. Today is a Sunday, and the channel's own homepage bills SOUNDTRACK for Sunday mornings, which is recorded separately above.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: RTBF Classic 21 — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.rtbf.be/classic21/