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Europe 1, formerly known as Europe n° 1, is a privately owned radio station created in 1955. It is one of the leading French radios and is broadcast nationwide. The station belongs to Lagardère Active, a subsidiary of Lagardère. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... Image File history File links Logo_Europe1_2005. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lagardère SCA is a large French group of companies, diversified in publishing and aerospace, formerly known as Matra. ...

Famous programs include: Pour ceux qui aiment le Jazz, Signé Furax, Salut les Copains, Campus, and Le Club de la Presse.

Famous journalists and moderators include: Maurice Siegel, jean Gorini, André Arnaud, Pierre Bouteiller, Pierre Bellemare, Francis Blanche, Daniel Filipacchi, Franck Ténot, Lucien Morisse, Robert Willar, Albert Simon, and Madame Soleil. Daniel Filipachi is the son of Henri Filipacchi, a director at Hachette and the inventor of Hachettes Livre de Poche brand of pocketbooks. ... Franck Ténot (October 31, 1925 — January 8, 2004) was a press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic. ...

History

Europe 1 is the first programme of Europäische Rundfunk- und Fernseh-AG. The station is broadcast on longwave on 183 kHz from Felsberg Felsberg-Berus in the Saarland and on FM frequencies throughout France. Longwave can also refer to the economics concept of Kondratiev waves, or to the rock band Longwave The Longwave radio broadcasting band is the range of frequencies between 148. ... A kilohertz (kHz) is a unit of frequency equal to 1,000 hertz (1,000 cycles per second). ... Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length...

Europe 1 was established during the French administration of the Saarland after the Second World War, in order to go around the postwar prohibition of commercial broadcasting in France. The transmssions were first legally not authorised, however also under West German sovereignty in the Saarland 1957 they were legalised. Starting from 1959 the French state bought part of the broadcasting corporation, which is administered today by the Lagardère group. The programme has always been produced in Paris. They are transferred over broadcast-quality telephone lines into Felsberg in the Saarland. In the beginning two 200 kW longwave transmitters were available. In 1976 two 1,000 kW transmitters were installed, which are operated with a combined output of 2000 kW. Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... West Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include East Germany. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region ÃŽle-de-France Department Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land area¹ 86. ... Felsberg is a small town in Hesse, Germany. ... Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

In the 1960s, Europe 1 knew an important success and conquered a young audience. It imposed a new tone in French radio. The musical broadcast Salut les Copains was a symbol of the French pop culture and the baby boom generation. It took a part in the May 68 crisis like the main way of information. It was nicknamed "barricade's radio". In the 1970s, President Giscard d'Estaing criticized its "mocking" tone. When Jean-Luc Lagardère became president of Europe 1 group, it was feared the network might lose its independence. May 1968 poster: Be young and keep quiet In May 1968 a general insurrection broke out across France. ... Valéry Marie René Giscard dEstaing [IPA: vÉ‘leÊ€i mÉ‘Ê€i ʀəne Ê’iskÉ‘Ê€ dÉ›stɛ̃] (born 2 February 1926 in Koblenz, Germany) is a French center-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. ... Jean-Luc Lagardère (February 10, 1928 - March 14, 2003) was a major French businessman. ...

Europe 1 is a member of the European Broadcasting Union since the 1970s. Logo of the EBU/UER. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), known in French as LUnion Européenne de Radio-Télévision (UER), and unrelated to the European Union, was formed on 12 February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organizations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference in the...

Since the 1980s, Europe 1 has been faced with a falling and an ageing of its audience, in due to the proliferation of commercial radio networks. Since the 1990s, it has become a "news and talk" network. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach became president of Europe 1 network in 2005. Frequently, it is estimated to be the fifth most popular radio network behind NRJ, RTL, France Inter and France Info. During the late 1980's a network of FM transmitters were established within France for the station but nowadays these are used for Europe 2. NRJ (or energy) is a radio company and brand of commercial radio stations in Europe. ... RTL is an abbreviation used in several contexts. ... France Inter is the major French public radio network. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Among the "historical" broadcasts of Europe 1:

• Vous Etes Formidables
• Bonjour Monsieur le Maire, a broadcast in rural France
• Campus, a cultural broadcast
• L'Horoscope de Madame Soleil, a broadcast of astrology
• Top 50, a musical chart
• Le Club de la Presse, a political broadcast

The Top 50 refers to a list of weekly hit singles, or albums. ...

Technical details

The directional antenna points the signal southwest towards France, In the eastern direction is mostly absorbed, so that in Eastern Europe only a very weak signal of the transmitter is to be received. Regions of Europe as delineated by the United Nations (UN definition of Eastern Europe marked salmon):  Northern Europe  Western Europe  Eastern Europe  Southern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium...

Because of a slight defect in the design of the antenna system only the carrier frequency is properly screened to the East, the sidebands experience only a small absorption, so that in the eastern direction from the transmitter the audio can be strongly distorted.

The transmitter frequency of 183 kHz lies outside of the usual 9-kHz-Rasters used in long wave under the Geneva Plan. This is to minimise interference with a transmitter in Oranienburg, which currently broadcasts Deutschlandradio Kultur on 177 kHz. Longwave radio frequencies are those below 500 kHz, which correspond to wavelengths longer than 600 meters. ... That Geneva wave plan is that 1974/75 set of rules prepared in Geneva, in which the enterprise of the broadcasting stations was specified in the long and medium-wave band. ... Oranienburg is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. ... The RIAS building, now the headquarters of Deutschlandradio Kultur. ...

In the Geneva wave plan the same frequency was assigned to both transmitters (over the Berlin transmitter the GDR broadcast was carried at that time), which led to substantial mutual disturbances. In order to solve this intolerable situation, now both transmitters are operated with a frequency offset of 3 kHz around the nominal frequency of 180 kHz. That Geneva wave plan is that 1974/75 set of rules prepared in Geneva, in which the enterprise of the broadcasting stations was specified in the long and medium-wave band. ... Disambiguation Page Global Depositary Receipt East Germany ...

See also

• Longwave transmitter Europe 1
• Transmitter Building Europe 1
• Telesaar

The Longwave transmitter Europe 1 is the oldest privately owned radio station in Germany, situated at Felsberg-Berus, Germany. ... The Transmitter building Europe 1 is a very remarkable concrete construction without support pillars, which is nowadays under monumental protection. ... Telesaar is the designation of the first German private television station. ...

External links

• (French) http://www.europe1.fr
• (French)http://www.africa1.com/
• (German) http://members.aon.at/wabweb/radio/europe1.htm