Europe 1

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Europe 1
Station logo
Radio transmitter ( private law )
reception FM and internet stream
Reception area Germany , France
owner European radio and television company
executive Director Arnaud Lagardère (2017-2018)

Laurent Guimier fr (2018-2019) Constance Banqué (2019-)

Start of transmission April 1, 1955
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Historical logo
former building of the transmitter

Europe 1 is a French-speaking radio station of the European Broadcasting Corporation , which is part of the Lagardère Group . The program was broadcast via long wave on the frequency 183 kHz by Überherrn - Sender Felsberg-Berus in Saarland until December 31, 2019 . Since then, the station can only be received in France via FM .

history

The broadcaster Europe 1 was founded during the French administration of the Saarland in order to circumvent a ban on commercial broadcasting in France. The broadcasts were initially not legally legitimized , but were continued under German radio sovereignty in Saarland in 1957. From 1959, the French state also participated in the broadcasting company, which is now managed by the Lagardère group .

The programs were always produced in Paris . They are transmitted to Felsberg in Saarland via radio lines . Initially, two 200 kW long wave transmitters were available. In 1976 two 1,000 kW transmitters were installed, which are operated with a total output of 2,000 kW.

Technical details

The main transmitting antenna points to the southwest, to the east the signal is attenuated, so that only a very weak signal from the transmitter can be received in Eastern Europe. Only the carrier frequency is attenuated , the sidebands experience only very little attenuation , so that the programs can be heavily distorted by the transmitter in an easterly direction.

The transmission frequency of 183 kHz was outside the normal 9 kHz grid for long waves. The purpose was to avoid mutual interference with the Zehlendorf / Oranienburg station near Berlin, which broadcast the Deutschlandradio Kultur program on 177 kHz until December 31, 2014 . In the course of the Geneva wave plan , the same frequency was assigned to both transmitters (at that time the GDR radio was broadcast via the Oranienburg transmitter), which led to massive mutual interference. In order to solve this intolerable situation, both transmitters were then operated with a deviation (“frequency offset”) of 3 kHz from the nominal frequency of 180 kHz.

Broadcasting on long wave was stopped on December 31, 2019 for economic reasons; a possible frequency change to 180 kHz was no longer carried out.

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