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France Inter is the major French public radio network. It is part of Radio France and was founded in 1963. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Radio France is a French public service radio broadcaster. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...
France Inter broadcasts in LW: 162 kHz and in FM. France Inter's signal is strong enough for it to be able to heard reasonably clearly in some parts of the south of Great Britain Longwave radio frequencies are those below 500 kHz, which correspond to wavelengths longer than 600 meters. ... When used in supervisory signaling in telephony, the term frequency-change signaling has been used to describe frequency modulation. ...
France's main nationwide radio stations are: RTL (8.4 million listeners), France-Inter (a public radio in the same form as NPR), Europe 1 (4.8 million) and Radio Monte-Carlo (0.9 million), all of whom are both on AM and FM.
Private stations are mainly financed through advertizing whereas public station are financed by a licensing fee and sometimes by the state (ads on public stations are restricted to public-service ads).
France's public radio system is grouped under the umbrella of a national radio organization called Radio France which manages a network of 53 radio stations; five are national, 39 are local and nine are the so-called "parallel" stations which broadcast round-the-clock news and public service messages (FIP)).
Internet use in France has grown swiftly and remarkably in a few years: every institution, daily newspaper, government department and business now has its own website and there are sites of all kinds (sport, education, services, films, etc.).
France, which invented the cinematograph in 1895, is still very active in this sector.
France is the home of some 11,300 dramatic artists and dancers, 16,200 musicians and singers, 250 music, opera and dance festivals, 8,700 variety performers; etc. In addition, amateur performers are increasing in number as teaching in these fields has grown apace (more than 4,300 institutions specialize in music alone).
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