France 3 Provence-Alpes France 3 Provence-Alpes France 3 Provence-Alpes is a regional television service, part of the France 3 network. It serves the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region from its headquarters in Marseilles and secondary production centre in Antibes, along with newsrooms in Toulon and Nice. "France 3 Provence-Alpes" produces regional news, sport, features and entertainment programming. "RTF Télé-Marseille" began broadcasting on 20 September 1954. In 1964, RTF was replaced with ORTF by the government, with "RTF Télé-Marseille" becoming "ORTF Marseille Provence". After the deestablishment of ORTF on 6 January 1975, "ORTF Télé-Marseille" became "FR3 Méditerranée". Following the establishment of France Télévisions on 7 September
Provence Nice and the lower Alps, was detached from Provence and attached to the lands of the Duke of Savoy. The lower Alps were re-attached to France after the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, but Nice did not return to France until 1860, during the reign of Napoleon III. The administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur was created in 1982. It included Provence, plus the territory of the Comtat Venaissin around Avignon, the eastern portion of the Dauphiné, and the former county of Nice. The Rhône river, on the western border of Provence, is one of the major rivers of France, and