Radio operator Monte Carlo

RMC is a radio French general practitioner which aims at a rather popular public. The topicality and sporting information dominate the grid which leaves a broad place to the interactivity with the listeners.

History of the station

During the Second world war, the German occupant seeks to cover the south of the France with a radio of Propagande. Radio Monte Carlo is launched by a Berliner company (with also of the French and Italian capital) on July 1st 1943. Maurice Chevalier inaugurates this radio “with the service of new Europe” which is placed under control of the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

With the Release, the governments French and Monegasque take again the radio, France holding 83,33% of its capital via the Sofirad, and the Principality 16,67%.

In the Years 1950, Francis Blanche, Cilette Badia and Anne of Valette are the principal organizers of the antenna.

In the Years 1960, Maurice Gardett animates Gardett Party , the morning ones of the station. At that time, Pierre Lescure or Jean-Pierre Foucault makes their beginnings in Radio Monte Carlo. Years later, it will be with the turn of Alain Chabat and of Christian Borde (alias Jules Edouard Moustic) to do as much of it.

In 1981, the new direction removes or moves certain programs emblematic ( Quitte or Double of Zappy max or the morning one of Jean-Pierre Foucault) to propose new emissions aiming at educating the public. But the listeners, rather of popular origin, do not follow this movement. In 1983, whereas the station already lost many of its listeners, the direction reprograms popular emissions. But the arrival of the free Radios mark end of the monopoly of RMC on the south of France. Vis-a-vis this erosion of the audience, the principal organizers leave the station, following the example Jean-Pierre Foucault which joined RTL. RMC then does not cease declining throughout the Années 1980.

During the Years 1990, the grids follow one another to go up the audience. But the station suffers from a deep crisis of identity: its traditional public, popular and resulting from the south of France, is not found in a station with the ambitions national and perceived like Paris ienne.

In 1993, Jerome Bellay, founder of France Info then LCI, replaces without success Yves Mourousi with the management of the programs with for objective making RMC a radio of information. In spring 1994, Jean-Pierre Foucault becomes director of the programs of RMC. He intends to reconquer the traditional public of the station: Julien Courbet, which had left RMC for NRJ, returns to animate morning the Radio Assembled Billhook , Jean-Claude Bourret presents the newspapers of information, Patrick Sabatier carries out interviews in the Good life and the duet of the Chevaliers of gall is discharged with Southern Radio. The audience goes up but the French State, principal shareholder, wish privatiser the station. Group RMC is dismantled in 1998: Nostalgie is repurchased by the Groupe NRJ and RMC becomes the property of the Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, already owners of Southern Radio.

As from September 1999, Bernard Tapie dialog each morning with the listeners, but Hello Bernard is the only emission of interactivity of the station. The remainder of the grid is very economic: long musical beaches intersected with short chronicles. In March 2000, RMC becomes again general practitioner: Jean-Luc Reichmann animates morning with plays, Jose Sacré pilot the ends of the afternoon and François Sorel animates daily on the New technologies.

See also: Contenu=Voir also the article [[NextRadioTV]].

July 5th 2000, NRJ Group repurchases RMC with the Laboratoires Pierre Fabre to make radio operator any information of it. But the French law prohibiting the same group from serving by the means of its various radiophonic networks more than 150 million potential listeners, NRJ Group (which publishes already NRJ, Chérie FM, Nostalgie and Rire and Songs) is found in infringement. November 13rd, 2000, NRJ Group announces that it gives up RMC to put itself in conformity with the law. In December of the same year, Alain Weill, then managing director of the Group NRJ, resigns of its functions to create Nextradio (of which it assumes the chairmanship of the directory) and to repurchase the radio RMC. Inspired by the American radios “talk”, it organizes the repositioning of the station around three pillars: infos, talk-shows and sports. The new format is set up the January 22nd 2001 and the station is rebatisée RMC Info in June 2001. To note that posting RDS of the station east always " RMC INFO"

In 2001, Alain Weill recruits Jean-Jacques Bourdin, an organizer of RTL, to present each morning on line between 7:00 and 11:00 a session of information and interactivity with the listeners: Bourdin & Co . In 2002, the radio inaugurates its new format: information, debates and sports .

In 2003, the station has joined again for the first time for 20 years with the benefit. In 2005, with the arrival of TNT in France, Alain Weill proclamation his desire to create a chain of sporting information RMC Sports but the project is not retained by the SCUMS. The group NextRadioTV will propose another project of chain of information uninterrupted to economic vocation, BFM TV, which will be retained by SCUMS.

During the countryside of the French presidential election of 2007, the political interview of Jean-Jacques Bourdin between 8:30 and 9 hours are retransmise simultaneously on BFM TV within the framework of the emission Bourdin 2007 and 30 hours of direct will be devoted to this event on RMC.

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