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
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence isolated from main roads. "Nord-de-Provence" was one of the 83 original departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790 under the Act of 22 December 1789. It was renamed "Haute-Provence" then "Basses-Alpes". On 12 August 1793, the department of Vaucluse was created from parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, and Basses-Alpes. Basses-Alpes lost the canton of Sault to Vaucluse at this point. Seventeen years later, in 1810, the canton of Barcillonnette was transferred over to Hautes-Alpes. The department of Basses-Alpes was occupied by fascist Italy from November 1942 to September 1943. On 13 April 1970, the department