Tipik is a Belgian national television channel, owned and operated by the French-language public-service broadcasting organization RTBF.

[1] Although it was officially created to broadcast regional programs produced by RTB's two regional TV centers (Charleroi and Liège), adult education programs and public service blocks, the second channel aimed to occupy the old network of black and white transmitters of the first channel, which had converted to color so that no commercial station could claim it.

RTBis relayed RTB1 programs most of the time, which made it attractive by broadcasting popular soap operas, movies, variety shows and game shows, although it mostly tried to be complementary, without being specialized, by releasing space and time for full relays of events such as figure skating, tennis tournaments, and the Queen Elisabeth Competition.

[1] RTBF renamed it Télé 2 at the end of October 1979 and adopted an event-based schedule mainly focused on sports.

[1] On October 16, 1983, a wind of 130 km/h damaged one of the 315-meter-high (1,033 ft) RTBF pylons in Wavre, which deprived the access of the channel to 100,000 viewers for one year.

The RTBF activity report submitted in 1984 to the Parliament of the French Community presented several options concerning the future of Télé 2.

In the autumn of 1989, Télé 21, whose ratings fluctuated from high to low (from 16 to 18% to less than 0.85), was repositioned as the channel of events and repeats of very expensive programmes that a good part of the public could not follow on RTBF1.

The terrestrial coverage deprived 5% of its viewing audience, as well as the entirety of the cable networks of Flanders, from having access to the broadcast of sporting events carried by RTBF's two channels.

Bratzlavsky had been production coordinator of Arte-Belgium, the interface created between the RTBF and the team of the European cultural channel, since 1995.

In December 2001, while working on the RTBF news program schedules for the start of January 2002, the date of 21 March is advanced to re-launch the new version of La Deux.

However, following the resignation of the director-general of RTBF, Christian Druitte, doubts were raised about the timing and a delay was considered.

The aim was to break the image unmethodical or catchall, La Deux, giving it a strong identity, and making a channel of its own.

Also note: the debut of Screen (movie block), Clips en ligne, or to Extratime (dedicated to urban or indoor sports, martial arts, etc.).

From 7 September 2020, La Deux merged with RTBF's youth radio station Pure to form a new brand for young people called Tipik.

Tipik was also considered to be the equivalent to its Flemish (Dutch-language) counterpart, VRT Canvas, which also follows the same programming structure.