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-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Festival which has highly popularized the region. Also, Arles has become renowned as the city in which Vincent van Gogh lived and painted 300 paintings. Toulon is a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with the French naval base placed there. It is the capital of the Var department in the region. Also, Aix-en-Provence has long been a university town, and to this day remains the most important educational centre in the region. Below is a list of the most populated cities in the region along with their population (city proper) according to the most recent census. This region