Radio in France

The radio in France is characterized by a dual system. Public service Radio France is facing a variety of commercial vendors. Both Radio France and the Commercial offer national and regional or local services.

General

The radio reception in France and thus Einschaltquotenstruktur by format is not comparable to the situation in Germany. In France, first of all, the word has a higher proportion of the radio demand than in Germany, according to the music lower. Furthermore, the radio is total demand, ie word and music programs combined, higher than in Germany.

Accordingly, the so-called généralistes radios that broadcast nationwide, the most listened to stations. Among these are with RTL, Europe 1 and RMC both commercial as well as with France Inter and France Info public providers. These stations can all be heard on long wave across the country on the same frequency, with the exception of France Info, the medium wave broadcasting on different frequencies. All also have a largely nationwide FM network, with the exception of RMC, which is not transmitting ( in Paris but quite ) in the northern regions on FM.

The commercial généralistes originated in a time when the event commercial radio in France was not approvable; the long-wave transmitters were always abroad, the RMC in Monaco, the. RTL in Luxembourg and that of Europe 1 in the Federal Republic of Germany This avoidance behavior is the cause that the long wave reception in France still enjoys a great popularity, as reflected for example in the fact that French cars are generally constructed so that all functional units are langwellenentstört.

The radios are généralistes with the German term " full program " inadequately described, because their program schedule is very different from what is common in German-speaking countries. A large part of the program consists of talk shows or programs with talkback ( call-in programs). News, background programs, interviews, comedy and game shows also occupy an important place. Striking are the ratings: Although its program of German listening habits rather " boring " acts ( word -heavy, with long-winded sound bites, earlier in telephone quality ) are the radios généralistes popular than the music channel. Comparable stations, which are also very successful, there are however, in Spain and the USA. The radio généraliste the public broadcaster Radio France network is the broadcast since 1963 on France Inter. In addition, after 1945 created a number of other radios généralistes.

Until 1981, no private stations were licensed in France, the state had the monopoly on broadcasting. However, private radio stations beamed their programs from neighboring countries on long wave, reaching very many listeners in France. To date, these programs will be broadcast on long wave, but now they are also across the whole of France to hear on FM - but they are still the most popular radios. What has remained from that time, when they sent in from the periphery to France, the term radios périphériques ". Studios of most of these stations were located way from the beginning in Paris.

In 1994, a general quota for the proportion of French musical productions at the music day and between 6.30 und 22.30 clock clock total sent was introduced in France. Since then, at least 60 % of air time must be met with productions by European artists, as well as 40 % of air time with productions of French artists. The rule does not apply to stations that bring classical music or programs for ethnic minorities living in France. The promotion of the French artist is part of a policy which was extended under the heading of l' exception culturelle française on the television and the cinema (le décret Tasca on 17 January 1990).

Public channels

The public broadcaster Radio France radiates seven programs. The classical program France Vivace was discontinued at the end of August 2010. The ratings are based on the data of " Mediamétrie " for November / December 2006. Mentioned data correspond to the broadest audience ( " at least once during the day belongs to" )

  • France Inter ( "radio généraliste " especially news and talk shows, 10.0%)
  • France Culture (1.3%)
  • France Musique (classical and jazz, 1.7%)
  • France Info ( news around the clock 8.9% )
  • France Bleu (mantle program of local stations, 6.6%)
  • Le Mouv ' (Youth Radio 1.0%)
  • FIP ( metropolis program in Paris, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Nantes)

Private channels

" Radio périphériques " / generalist programs

( Audience in the first half of 2005):

  • Europe 1 originally from the Saarland from (8.9%)
  • RTL from Luxembourg via long wave, still mostly Listened in France (12.4%)
  • Radio Monte Carlo from Monaco ( 5.0%)
  • Sud Radio from Andorra (only in southern France ).

Music stations

Some stations broadcast their programs chains now almost everywhere on VHF from, for example:

  • Virgin Radio, formerly Europe 2 ( music channel of Europe 1: 5.5%)
  • NRJ ( together 11.5%)
  • RTL 2 (4.8%)
  • Skyrock (7.6%)
  • Nostalgia (8%)
  • Fun Radio (6.4%)
  • Chérie FM ( 5.9%)
  • Rire et Chansons (3.6%)
  • MFM (1.4%)
  • RFM (5.3%)
  • Radio NOVA
Longwave Audience measurement RMC (France) RTL2 (France) Fun Radio (France)
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