The publicly run Radio France consortium controls around 40 radio stations, 31 of which fall under the France Bleu group.
Non-Commercial Stations
Radio stations in France | ||
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| Radio France (public) |  | |
| Espace Group | ||
| HPI Groupe | ||
| ISA Media Development | ||
| Lagardère Active | ||
| Les Indés Radios (GIE) | ||
| NextRadioTV | ||
| Nova Press | ||
| NRJ Group | ||
| RTL Group | ||
| Groupe 1981 | ||
| Other private | ||
| Local stations |
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Compared to other European nations, the French are not avid newspaper readers, citing only 164 adults out of every 1000 as newspaper readers.
RTL is a French commercial radio network owned by the RTL Group. Founded in 1933 as Radio Luxembourg, it broadcast from outside France until 1981 because only public stations had been allowed until then. It is a general-interest, news, talk and music station, broadcasting nationally in France, Francophone Belgium, and Luxembourg. Until 2022, RTL was also broadcast on long wave frequency 234 KHz from Beidweiler which could be picked up in large parts of the continent. It has a sister station called Bel RTL tailored for the French Community of Belgium. As of 2018, RTL is France's most popular radio station with an average of 6.4 million daily listeners that year.
Radio France is the French national public radio broadcaster.
Radio transmission in Paris began in 1921, and today there are many AM and FM radio stations available to listeners in Paris and the Île-de-France region.
Radio FG is a French-language radio station that began broadcasting from Paris on 98.2 MHz in the FM band in 1981. It is France's first radio station that broadcasts deep house and electro house music. The station's current playlist is house, dance, R&B and electronica alongside several American hip-hop songs broadcast from time to time.
Les Mercuriales are twin towers in Bagnolet, along the Boulevard Peripherique, in Paris, France. They were built in 1975, and are named Levant (Eastern) and Ponant (Western).
Mouv' is a French youth-oriented radio station which began broadcasting on 17 June 1997. As part of Radio France, it is a public radio station. The station primarily plays youth-oriented music, centered on urban music and hip hop. Initially based in Toulouse, it moved to Paris in December 2001. It relaunched on 2 February 2015 with its slogan Mouv on it. Previously the radio station assumed an alternative rock identity, its slogan L'esprit Rock was a way of life and a style as well as a type of music.
France Bleu is a network of local and regional radio stations in France, part of the national public broadcasting group Radio France. The network has a public service mission to serve local audiences and provides local news and content from each of its forty-four stations.
Jazz Radio is a French radio station dedicated to jazz and soul that started in 1996.
Radio Courtoisie is a French radio station and cultural associative union created in 1987 by Jean Ferré.
Fun Radio is a French network of FM radio stations created on 2 October 1985 and offering electropop, dance and eurodance music operating on 250 different frequencies in France. The station belongs to RTL Group as do its sister stations RTL and RTL2. These three radio stations share the same headquarters located in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Beur FM is a French local radio station catering mainly to France's Maghrebi communities including: Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians.
TSF Jazz, previously known as TSF 89.9, is a jazz radio station in Paris, France, that was started in 1999 and owned by Nova Press. The station broadcasts in the Île-de-France: in Paris on 89.9 FM where it can almost be heard in the whole region, and the French Riviera, with frequencies in Nice and Cannes. TSF, the acronym of the station, stands for Télégraphie Sans Fil and means "Wireless Telegraphy", an archaic French term for "radio".
Espace Group is a French media company established in 1987, based at Lyon and which engages in mainly radio publishing.
BFM Régions is a French network of local news television channels, property of Altice. It is partially modeled after the American News 12 Networks, which Altice also owns through its 2016 purchase of Cablevision. The network is part of the BFM family of news and financial media properties.
France Bleu Vaucluse is a regional radio station broadcasting in Vaucluse and surrounding areas. It covers regional news, sports, culture, etc. The headquarters are located in Avignon. The station broadcasts 88.6FM for Castellet, 98.8FM for Avignon-le-Pontet and 100.4FM for Avignon-Mont-Ventoux.
France Bleu Touraine is a French regional radio station owned by Radio France under the France Bleu network. It broadcasts to the Indre-et-Loire region as well as Loché-sur-Indrois, with the cities of Tours and Orléans in its coverage area.
France Bleu Saint-Étienne Loire, sometimes referred to as France Bleu Saint-Étienne, is a generalist radio station broadcasting from Saint-Étienne. It is the youngest of the France Bleu stations, beginning broadcasting on September 9, 2013. The local headquarters are in Saint-Étienne in the Manufacture Plaine Achille, near the studios of France 3.
France Bleu Picardie is one of the public service regional radio stations of France Bleu. It serves the departments of Somme, most of Oise and Aisne, and is also accessible in the south of Pas-de-Calais.
France Bleu Pays de Savoie, sometimes referred to as France Bleu Savoie, is a generalist radio station based in Chambéry. The radio station serves the departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, though it can also be received as far as Geneva, Lyon, and in parts of Drome, Isére, Jura and Saône-et-Loire.