FIP (radio station)
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| Radio station ( public law ) | |
| reception | analog terrestrial , cable , satellite , internet |
| Reception area | France (FM) |
| Start of transmission | 1971 |
| Broadcaster | Radio France |
| List of radio stations | |
FIP (formerly France Inter Paris ) is a French radio broadcaster that only broadcasts music of all styles. FIP belongs to the public broadcaster Radio France .
The slogan of the station is: « Respirez! Vous êtes sur FIP. »(German:" Take a deep breath! You are with FIP. ")
program
The concept of the station has hardly changed since it was founded in 1971 and consists of an eclectic selection of music, mainly from the areas of jazz , pop , chanson , film music , world music and classical music , in which regional traffic information, culture and event information are embedded. The genres of music alternate at will from title to title, but without creating too abrupt transitions. There are several music editors behind the selection who take care of the broadcaster's programming. The completely advertising-free program is interrupted during the day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. by short messages ten minutes before the hour. Since 1982, the moderated jazz show Jazz à FIP has also enriched the program every evening from 7 to 8 p.m. From 8 p.m., themed evenings and concert broadcasts follow regularly. FIP is known for its calm announcement style, which stands in the way of the lively moderation of other French music channels. In the early years, the intonation of the so-called FIPettes was formative. H. of announcers who read the few verbal contributions in a soothing, as it were sensual voice and were compared in France with the legendary Paris-Orly style, the loudspeaker announcements at Paris Orly airport.
history
The program was created in January 1971 by Jean Garetto and Pierre Codou, two presenters of France Inter , under the name France Inter Paris (FIP). It should be a Parisian metropolitan radio that offers traffic information and a relaxing mix of music for the congested Parisian. The announcements are made during instrumental pieces of music and are made almost exclusively by female speakers. In addition to their voices, they became famous for the fact that they liked to describe traffic problems with humor and irony.
Initially, transmission was only carried out on the medium wave frequency of 585 kHz (514 m), but broadcasting via ultra-short waves soon began, to which stereo sound was added over time.
The Parisian concept was soon expanded to other French cities. The naming was analogous, so that for example in Strasbourg the program France Inter Strasbourg (FIS) was called. In the 1980s, however, the joint brand "FIP" was created and the stations were renamed accordingly to FIP Strasbourg or FIP Paris , whereby the identification in the program is only FIP .
| Name (s) | Seat | Start of transmission | Transmission stop |
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| France Inter Paris (FIP); FIP Paris | Paris | 1971 | |
| France Inter Bordeaux (FIB); FIP Bordeaux | Bordeaux | 1972 | |
| France Inter Lille (FIL); FIP Lille | Lille | 1972 | 2000 |
| France Inter Lorraine (FIL) France Inter Metz (FIM); FIP Metz |
Nancy Metz |
1972 1984 |
1984 2000 |
| France Inter Lyon (FIL); FIP Lyon | Lyon | 1972 | 2000 |
| France Inter Marseille (FIM); FIP Marseille | Marseille | 1972 | 2000 |
| France Inter Reims (FIR); FIP Reims | Reims | 1972 | 1988 |
| France Inter Cote d'Azur (FICA); FIP Côte d'Azur | Nice | 1973 | 2000 |
| France Inter Toulouse (FIT) | Toulouse | 1973 | 1984 |
| France Inter Loire-Atlantique (FILA); FIP Nantes | Nantes | 1974 | |
| France Inter Strasbourg (FIS); FIP Strasbourg | Strasbourg | 1978 | |
| FIP Tours | Tours | 1985 | 1988 |
| FIP Cherbourg | Cherbourg | 1986 | 1987 |
Between 1984 and 1988 the FIP stations in Toulouse, Cherbourg, Reims and Tours were closed in favor of new regional programs from Radio France. In Lorraine , the station was limited to the area around Metz and Forbach for the same reason and the studio was relocated from Nancy to Metz.
In 2000, another five FIP stations were closed despite audience protests. The then President of Radio France, Jean-Marie Cavada, wanted to create a better frequency distribution with the Plan Bleu and to create a fifth national chain (today France Bleu ) from the previous regional radio stations of Radio France and the senior broadcaster Radio Bleue . The frequencies from FIP Metz and FIP Côte d'Azur as well as those from the youth program Le Mouv 'were required for this. Since FIP Lille, FIP Lyon and FIP Marseille had only a small audience, their frequencies were assigned to Le Mouv 'at the same time, whose range should also be expanded. FIP then remained five terrestrial frequencies in Paris, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Nantes; From the point of view of the radio directorate, FIP had a sufficient audience to justify its continued existence. Nevertheless, FIP in Strasbourg and Bordeaux was still in danger of being closed, as Le Mouv 'was supposed to be spread particularly in university cities.
It was not until Jean-Paul Cluzel took over the presidency of Radio France in 2004 that better times began for FIP; the reach of FIP should be expanded again. A frequency that went on air in Montpellier in July 2006 marked the first new activation for FIP in a long time. However, no new local FIP station was created here, but the Paris program was adopted, which had since been replaced by a neutral, less Paris-centered variant. In 2007 a filling frequency for FIP Bordeaux (in nearby Arcachon ) followed. In July 2007 frequencies were activated in Rennes and Marseille and in June 2008 in Toulouse , all of which took over the Paris FIP program.
After Radio France and CanalSat did not come to an agreement in 2008 on the financial aspects of satellite broadcasting of Radio France programs, CanalSat interrupted this on July 1, 2008 and FIP has not been via TPS ( Eutelsat 13 ° East) and since then CanalSat ( Astra 19.2 ° East) can be received. After agreeing on new terms of the contract, broadcasting by CanalSat was resumed on January 20, 2009. However, it is only broadcast via Astra 19.2 ° East, as the distribution of the TPS package via Eutelsat 13 ° East was discontinued at the end of 2008.
In addition to the main program, there have been six thematic FIP thematic channels since summer 2016, which are distributed as web channels :
- FIP autour du rock (rock music)
- FIP autour du Jazz (Jazz)
- FIP near you groove
- FIP near du monde (world music)
- FIP tout nouveau tout fip (news)
- FIP l'été reggae (Reggae)
technology
The music bed and the hourly news for FIP are compiled centrally in Paris and distributed to all FIP stations via internal lines. On site, the local "Fipettes" make the announcements for the respective cities during instrumental pieces of music via the supplied central signal. The moderated evening program between 7.30 and 11 p.m. is also produced in Paris and broadcast unchanged everywhere. At night between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. the music selection is automated with recorded announcements in which a. the frequencies are called.
However, since there is no official national version of FIP for the general public, all French cable networks outside the area of the local stations, via the satellite bouquet from CanalSat, via the DAB test ensembles from Radio France in Paris, Marseille, Toulouse and Nantes as well as via the Internet streams spread the Paris variant. The frequency in Montpellier, which was put into operation in 2006, also broadcast the Paris variant.
In March 2007, however, the “blank” version, previously only internally distributed, was activated via the Atlantic Bird 3 satellite, without local announcements, which has since been publicly accessible on this satellite under the identifier “FIP Region”. This distribution will also be used for the feed for the newly allocated frequencies.
Since FIP continuously broadcasts music that is only interrupted by short messages, it serves as Radio France's “principal fil musical de secours”, ie as the “main music line in an emergency”. This means that in the event of technical breakdowns or strikes, FIP can always be heard on one of the Radio France programs. For a short time the program is broadcast nationally on VHF, while it is normally the program with the fewest frequencies on Radio France.
reception
Terrestrial frequencies
- FIP Paris
- Paris 105.1 MHz
- FIP Bordeaux
- Bordeaux 96.7 MHz
- Arcachon 96.5 MHz
- FIP Nantes
- Nantes 95.7 MHz
- Saint-Nazaire 97.2 MHz
- FIP Strasbourg
- Strasbourg 92.3 MHz
- FIP (without local information)
- Montpellier 99.7 MHz
- Marseille 90.9 MHz
- Rennes 101.2 MHz
- Toulouse 103.5 MHz
Unencrypted digital broadcast via satellite
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Astra 1H (19.2 ° East)
- Program: FIP Paris
- Downlink frequency: 12,363.00 MHz, vertical polarization
- Symbol rate: 27,500 MSymb / s
- Atlantic Bird 3 (5 ° West)
- Program: FIP (without local information)
- Downlink frequency: 12,543.00 MHz, horizontal polarization (transponder KA7)
- Symbol rate: 27.5 MSymb / s
- Distribution for signal feeding of terrestrial transmitters
Web channel
The thematic channels of FIP as a pure Webchannel circulated on the Internet.
FIP as a pirate broadcaster
In the southern English city of Brighton , FIP was broadcast by fans of the station as a pirate station on two FM frequencies for over seven years and enjoyed great popularity there with its colorful mix of music. The UK regulator has since stopped broadcasting it, but FIP is considered to be the longest continuously broadcast land-based pirate station in the UK . After the shutdown, an association was formed to fight for the return of FIP to the Brighton airwaves.