Plural Paris frequency

Plural Paris Frequency (FP 106.3 FM), is an associative radio general practitioner creates in 1992 and who emits on Paris and its suburbs. It is member of the Federation of the Associative Radios of Ile de France. It does not diffuse any publicity, and remains with Radio Libertarian and Aligre FM one of the last noncommercial associative radios in Paris region. Currently, the President of Fréquence Paris Plurielle is Jacques Soncin and his director of antenna Juliette Volcler.

History

Exit of a regrouping between various sectors excluded from the French Audiovisual landscape, Fréquence Paris Plurielle developed media which want to be near to the social fights and alternatives policy and.

Radio Tomato…

In 1981, the Center of Initiative for New Spaces of freedom (CINEL), controlled in particular by Felix Guattari, takes part in the creation of an associative radio, Radio Tomato, which fits in a “collective individual reappropriation and (...) an interactive use of the machines of information, communication, intelligence, art and culture” . The radio is animated by militants, in particular resulting from the autonomous Mouvement.

The first Radio Tomato lasts only two years. The project is then reactivated in 1988, always on the principle of calling on the people in fight. The antenna emits on the 106.7 MHz in Paris region, and shares the frequency, and thus the time of antenna, with several other radios. Radio Tomato animates at the time 5 emissions, on the questions of the Droit to housing, the Précarité, the Double pain, the anti-prison fights, and an emission Punk. When the broader project of an associative radio emerges assuming a full frequency, the Tomate radio presenters decide to carry their energy on the creation of this new antenna.

… at Plural Fréquence Paris

In 1991, thus meet around the project of Fréquence Paris Plurielle of the actors of the free media and the social movements, among which: Yvan Jossen ( Feet in Paf ), Jacques Soncin (then directing of the National confederation of the free radios), Guy Dardel (of Radio Tomato, which will be then director of antenna), Annie Simon (CEDETIM, center of studies and initiatives of international solidarity). The project is validated by the SCUMS in 1992 and FP are seen allotting the 106.3 MHz and start to emit 24:00 on 24.

At the same time, various associations of immigrant workers in bond with the National confederation of the Free Radios (CNRL), file in a project of radio, Free Fréquence , near the SCUMS. The project, carried out by Habib Laïdi, and carried by the Association of the workers Turkish, the Union of the Tunisian immigrant workers, the Union of the African workers to France, the Association of the Morrocans of France and the ARAC, is rejected by the State. Fréquence Paris Plurielle, which started to build its grid around the social movements and of the international solidarity, also decides to accommodate the team of Free Frequency on her antenna.

The radio initially settles with the Plaine Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris. Following the storm of 1999, which devastates the studios, she moves in the district, very underprivileged, of Stalingrad, in the 18th district of Paris, and sets up with various associative structures committed in the media or the interdependent economy, a “House of the Free Media” .

Programming

The programming of Frequency Paris Plurielle rests on a hundred emissions of which ninety per hundreds weekly and are carried out by more than two hundred voluntary which takes turns in the two studios of the radio. Contrary to what is practiced in the traditional mediums, the long formats are privileged, in order to take time to develop the ideas and to dialog.

The grid structure thus in four great sectors: company, communities, culture, musics. These sectors remain nevertheless indicative, the antenna wanting to be general practitioner and endeavouring to decompartmentalize the fields to know and of engagement, because one discusses political through the music, and because a African emission does not speak solely about Africa but about culture, America or social questions.

Social sector and policy

Fréquence Paris Plurielle wants to be a place of free expression of the social minorities which fight all the forms of exclusion and oppression. The radio is independent of any political party or monk. The associations or collectives engaged in the social movements inform and discuss thus security questions: Without-papers, Right to housing, Unemployment, prisons, ecology, Feminism, AIDS, Third world, Handicap. At the time of strikes, demonstrations, revolts, FP calls on the people in fight and opens spaces of debate on its grid: that was the case at the time of the movements of 1995 and 2007 or at the time of the riots of 2005 in France, but also during the mobilization in favor of the American black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal or at the time of the insurrection of Oaxaca in Mexico in 2006.

Sector of the communities

Twelve immigrant communities are described into bilingual (French and language of the country of origin) on the antenna: Maghrebian, African French-speaking person, Turkish, caribéenne, assyro-chaldéenne, Iranian, Comorian, Rrom, Kurdish, Malagasy, Latin-American, Tchétchène. These communities, which thus address at the same time to the French-speaking listeners and not-French-speaking people, inform thus on the topicality of the country of origin and of the community in France, transmit practical informations (papers, school, life in France), and play a role of transmission and dialog. A certain number of emissions are included in associative radios in Africa (in particular with the Senegal and the Mali) and in South America.

Cultural sector

Plural Paris frequency, through its emissions of Cinema, Theater, Literature, Dance, Science fiction or Philosophy, is made the echo of the cultural activity by privileging that resulting from the associative, independent and noncommercial sector. It is interested particularly in the innovating aspects of the culture: small houses of edition, films except circuit, collective and committed initiatives in favor of the social progress.

Musical sector

The musical programs give voice to the musics of fight and the urban musics, in particular resulting from the popular quarters (Hip-hop, Reggae), like with the musical expressions in all their plurality: musics of the world, Punk-rock'n'roll, Opera, Jazz, Funk, Electronic music, live French song… Of the sessions are regularly carried out by the emissions, which accommodate mainly young or ignored musicians, out of the trade-circuits and the signal-50, thus making it possible to preserve musical diversity.

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