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Divergence FM is a radio associative noncommercial French of category has. General practitioner and cultural, it was created by Jean-François Rigaudin (inter alia) in 1987 and is installed since with Montpellier.

Divergence FM was mobilized since 2001 in favor of the free software, in particular through a Numerical emission diffused Divergence each last Thursday of the month.

But Divergence FM it is also of the music (song, world, reggae, jazz, Arabic, electronics, rap… of all in fact), of the interviews, the debates, the chronicles, the topicality, the dance, the theater, the cinema…

It is diffused in the area of Montpellier on the 93.9 in frequency modulation and Internet thanks to many flows in Ogg Vorbis, PeerCast and MP3.

“Radio cultural general practitioner - since his in February 1987 creation -, Divergence FM cultivates his originality and his eclecticism in order to propose with his listeners against “divergent” weight vis-a-vis the asepticized radio operators FM of Montpellier.

“To give direction to the sounds”. Formulate borrowed from Claude Nougaro at the time of a passage to Montpellier, this one became its “maxim”. Leaving side the simply mercantile “direction with the sounds”, Divergence FM intends to make work the imaginary one by developing a radiophonic work of creation privileging the force of the evocation thus. To give " direction with the sons" by also multiplying the ideological debate and reflector spaces.

To be flexible Community - Community binder enters the various cultures, social classes and age groups. Setting in wave of significant experiments in fields as various as the culture, the associative medium, the citizenship; organization of meetings, exchanges of points of sights. Divergence FM like radio operator of the cultural field montpelliérain, it is also to assert a membership and to pose the radio like a dynamic component of this field. A project which goes well beyond artistic pure and hard one. The culture, it is also all that makes the daily newspaper, the environment, employment, associative engagement, leisures etc

To collect the changes. Divergence FM tries to be the most faithful reflection of the local cultural world (and arrives there) while sticking to the social and musical tendencies, with the concerns of its time with programming evolving/moving with each new program timetable.

To offer rich and broad programming. Rich programming with like main axes, a strong Mediterranean identity, a musical eclecticism in quality, the noncommercial one, of the radiophonic workshops of creations (theater, music?) and a local anchoring (reception of associations, relay of cultural events). Since its beginnings, Divergence FM specialized in the emissions of creation. Concerned of the esthetic approach of the radio operator medium, it always stimulated its organizers for the search for new forms of presentations: its, music, voice.

Without leaving side the work of pre-production, it wished to introduce more the direct one with sessions of information and services more, in order to develop its opening on the city and its listeners, of the sessions supplemented by a " ouverture" on the world via the newspapers of Radio France Internationale.

" Divergence FM, an associative radio which is the business of all. Its permanent and its organizers enriches throughout the year the antenna through their personalities, their voices, their sensitivities, their competences and their motivations. A team work which takes here all its directions, and which made it possible Divergence FM to be built with time, strong a identité." (Gilles Gouget, current Directing of antenna)

The Numerical Divergence emission is diffused on the freebox, channel 98 (2/3 diffused emissions buckles some per month)

External bonds

Divergence FM
different the audio stream
channel IRC from Divergence FM
the interviews vidéos of divergence Fm

See too

Webradio, Radio associative Radio station

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