NRJ Radio
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| City | Paris |
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| Broadcast area | France |
| Slogan | Paris #1 Hit Music Station (Que des hits sur NRJ!) |
| Frequency | 100.3 MHz (Paris) 106.4 MHz (Marseille) 103.0 MHz (Lyon) Full list of other frequencies on NRJ.fr |
| First air date | 1981 |
| Format | CHR |
| Language(s) | French |
| Owner | NRJ Group |
| Sister stations | Chérie FM, Nostalgie, Rire & Chansons |
| Website | nrj.fr |
NRJ (NRJ is an acronym read as énergie in French, pronounced [enɛʁʒi]) is a private French radio station created by Jean-Paul Baudecroux and Max Guazzini in June 1981 and belongs to the NRJ Group. It is the founding station of NRJ International.
In June 1981 Jean-Paul Baudecroux created a music radio station for young people, and founded NRJ (standing for Nouvelle Radio des Jeunes). He then established studios in a tiny room in the 20th arrondissement of Paris in a place of high altitude to strategically cover all Paris on 92.0 MHz.
The station has since 1988 expanded internationally, and has started broadcasting in a number of countries:
1981–1997
1997–2007
2007-2014
2014-
NRJ was originally the acronym for Nouvelle Radio Jeune (New Youth Radio) or Nouvelle radio pour les jeunes (New Radio for the Youth), and was not invented to be an allograph of "energy". In the non-French countries where the station also operates, the radio station is simply called Energy, because NRJ can be pronounced phonetically in French as Energy or NRG.
Since the creation of NRJ, several slogans were used:
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