France Bleu
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| City | Paris |
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| Broadcast area | France |
| Slogan | "Vu d'ici" ("As seen from here") |
| Frequency | FM 87.6–107.3 MHz Frequencies |
| First air date | 4 September 2000 |
| Format | Adult contemporary, French music, Local news |
| Language(s) | French |
| Former callsigns | Radio Bleue Locales de Radio France |
| Owner | Radio France |
| Sister stations |
FIP France Culture France Info France Inter France Musique Le Mouv' |
| Website | France Bleu |
France Bleu is a network of local and regional radio stations in France, and a part of the national public broadcasting group Radio France. The network has a public-service mission to serve local audiences, and provides local news and content from each of its forty-four stations.
France Bleu was created in 2000 by a fusion of two older Radio France networks, Les locales de Radio France and Radio Bleue. The flagship station in Paris goes by the name of France Bleu 107.1, while the individual stations are each named for their respective coverage areas, usually a département, région, or city.
Claude Perrier has been director of the France Bleu network since June 2013. His predecessors include (2012–13) and (2010–12).
In 1980, Jacqueline Baudrier, Chief Director of Radio France created three new experimental local radio stations. Fréquence Nord, Radio Mayenne and Melun FM were created to cover a region, départment and a town respectively. These stations were in complement to those already existing under the management of FR3 since 1975, following the break-up of the state broadcaster ORTF. Radio France assumed control of all stations in 1982, with the number of stations reaching 40 by the 1990s.
Its programming was essentially local except for music (which usually came from sister station FIP, or national programming by satellite, called Programme Modulation France), combined with news bulletins from France Inter. These stations were individually called Radio France_____ followed by its coverage area, but were grouped under the name Les locales de Radio France.
Similarly in 1980, Baudrier also launched a new network, this time aimed at the over-50 demographic, called Radio Bleue. It started as a morning-only service which used a national mediumwave network, shared with educational programming. By the 1990s it expanded its schedule, broadcasting until the evening. By the late 1990s it had secured three FM frequencies from the radio regulator the CSA in three cities: Paris, Cannes, and Valence.
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