Émetteur du pic du Midi de Bigorre, Television transmission tower at Pic du Midi mountain peak, France

The Émetteur du pic du Midi de Bigorre consists of a 102-metre tower and a building housing the transmitters, on the summit in the Hautes-Pyrénées near Bagnères-de-Bigorre. The tower rises from the flat-roofed building, whose pale blue-grey facade is divided into a grid of vertical rectangular windows; round white satellite dishes line its lower front, and a red panel with external metal staircases sits to one side.

Two 25-metre pylons carrying a broadcasting antenna were installed on the Pic du Midi in 1926-1927. A 500 W analogue transmitter began broadcasting on 14 September 1957 for the RTF's single channel. From 1959 a new 103-metre antenna was built for 10 kW, reaching 300 to 400 km; from 1963 it carried VHF 819-line then UHF 625-line analogue signals.

The site belongs to the operator TDF and carries TNT digital television, FM and, since an ANFR authorisation in September 2025, DAB+ with the national multiplex M2 at 10 kW PAR. Its coverage reaches about one-seventh of French territory, and it also relays mobile telephony and TDF's microwave links between sites.

The site sits on the Pic du Midi de Bigorre near Bagnères-de-Bigorre in the Hautes-Pyrénées. When the 103-metre antenna and the interministerial building were built from 1959, no cable car existed: tools and materials came up a track ending 200 metres below the summit, then by two hoists built for the work. Access to the tower itself is restricted for safety.

The antenna is anchored in an 800-tonne concrete block, and part of the mountain was levelled 13 metres to build it. With no cable car at the time, tools and materials came up a track ending 200 metres below the summit, then by two funicular hoists built for the work.