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History

France Musique is founded in 1954 under the name of musical program with frequency modulation, on an idea of the poet Jean Tardieu. The programs are diffused in frequency modulation and stereophony, two techniques then new. rtf thus seeks to encourage the listeners to be equipped in stereo stations. Initially experimental, this program which diffuses at its beginnings the every day of 19 to 11 p.m. and saturdays until midnight, manages to become a true station.

The February 4th 1959 it takes the name of France IV High-Fidelity, then of rtf High fidelity the October 20th 1963, and finally that of France Musique the December 8th of the same year.

As of this time the station knows tensions on two subjects: the place with the antenna of other musics that the Traditional one and the distribution of the time of antenna between music and comments. These two topics justify all the reforms carried out since the Années 1960. Thus in 1975 Pierre Vozlinsky, director of the programs and musical services with Radio France, name Louis Dandrel, journalist with the Monde, director of the station. This last seeks to increase the audience of the radio by widening the programming with the rock'n'roll, the jazz, the varieties and the non-European musics. Moreover one third of the producers are drawn aside and replaced by a younger personnel. The new grid takes up duty the October 4th 1975. If the audience progresses, the faithful ones and the press denounce the new orientation of France Musique. Soon, relations between Volzinsky, attache with a more traditional design of the station, and Louis Dandrel worsen. This last resigns in 1977, followed by about fifty producers, while the radio operator met a term with the practiced opening. In 1982 the programming causes protests again: the speaking time is too long and too tedious, the programming envisaged is not respected. Also the station tries to reduce the place of the word on its waves.

The arrival of Traditional Radio on the waves in 1983 encourages France Musique to widen the range of the diffused musics and to leave more place to the comments (Radio Traditional leaving little place to the word). But the private station is not long in competing with then to exceed the public radio. In 1987 France Musique knows a new reform aiming at again decreasing the speaking time of the organizers. The February 6th 1992 arrives another reform which results in the reduction of speaking time of the organizers which reached then in moyenne14 minutes per hour, and the adoption of a more alive tone. But the company of the producers of France Musique and the press are hostile with the new grid.

In 1999 the station, under the direction of Pierre Bouteiller, becomes France Musics. The president of Radio France, Jean-Marie Cavada, request with the radio to accommodate more alive musics. It is also a question of reducing the share of the comments and of introducing information. The grid, impetus in September 1999 proves to be disappointing. A few years later the station takes again its name of France Musique.

Programming

France Musique diffuses especially classical music. With time it carried out an opening towards the Jazz. The music is intersected with explanatory comments, the station having a teaching will. It diffuses many concerts, so that in 2005 it was the second supplier in concerts of the European Union of Broadcasting.

Diffusion

The station is diffused in frequency modulation thanks to 502 transmitters, which ensures its diffusion in almost all the French territory (in 2005). It is also available in part of Luxembourg and French-speaking part of the Suisse (like Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel). It is audible by satellite thanks to Astra 1:00 and Hot Bird 7 A.

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