Tuesday, June 1, the Eiffel Tower will light up to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first radio program, broadcast precisely from the transmitter perched at the top.
This first program, in the presence of Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps, did not take place on June 1, but on December 24, 1921. But, at the initiative of Roch-Olivier Maistre, the president of the CSA, the whole profession had want to celebrate the radio, in these first days of deconfinement.
The Radio Festival, which begins on Monday, May 31 and will continue until June 6, is also an opportunity to celebrate 40 years of the liberalization of the airwaves, with the law of November 7, 1981.
With the proliferation of pirate radios throughout the 1970s, a generation of young people wanted to blow a wind of freedom on the airwaves padlocked by the public monopoly, already very contested by
the peripheral radios Radio Luxembourg (RTL) Europe 1 and Radio Monte-Carlo (RMC).
The opening of FM frequencies gave rise to musical radios
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