France Musique

France Musique is the in France mainly terrestrial used classical and jazz program of public radio Radio France Institute. In between, there is news on the hour. At night was taken over the classical program of France Vivace up to its setting on August 30, 2010.

These are the common concert broadcasts with some radio stations of the ARD ( " Franco-German Concerts "). In this context, classical music concerts are regularly broadcast live and presented in German and in French. This program exchanges take hr2, WDR 3, MDR Figaro and SR 2 Culture Radio, partly Germany Kultur part. For example, the transmissions of the Friday night concerts of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra from the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main are taken regularly on France Musique.

The program was founded in 1954 and aired in the then new FM technology. Meanwhile France Musique can also be received via satellite and the Internet. Since 1 July 2008, the station of Radio France, and thus France Musique were, however, no longer be received via satellite after it first came to no agreement with CanalSat regarding the contract extension. However, on 20 January 2009, the reconnection of the programs of Radio France on their existing frequencies. Since then, France Musique is again broadcast via satellite.