Sud radio

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Sud Radio is the name of a French-speaking private radio based in Toulouse and south-west France as the transmission area.

It had broadcast from Andorra from 1958 to 1981 , since then from Toulouse, today with the following means:

history

1951–1958: founded under pressure from the French government

On October 29, 1951, at the instigation of the French government, the company ANDORRADIO SA was founded to operate a commercial radio station in Andorra. The socialist government under President Vincent Auriol , advocate of the state broadcasting monopoly , wanted to switch off the partly French-speaking music station Radio Andorra , which is outside the control of the French state, or at least to reduce its predominantly French audience with an attractive competing station. Since Andorra had been ruled by two co-princes, the President of France (in succession to the Counts of Foix) and the Bishop of La Seu d'Urgell , since the Middle Ages , Vincent Auriol believed that Radio Andorra would withdraw its broadcasting license and build the new radio station Andorradio to enforce.

But the Andorrans and the Bishop of Urgell spoke out in favor of the continued existence of Radio Andorra and did not agree to the establishment of another transmitter, whereupon the situation escalated into an international conflict: In June 1953 France closed the border for half a year Andorra, in September Vincent Auriol denied jurisdiction from the Council of Valleys , and Spain was forced to intervene in the interests of the Co-Prince of Urgell.

The construction of the Andorradio transmitter began without clarification of the legal situation, and in 1954 Andorradio broadcast test programs.

After the Bishop of Urgell had agreed to a broadcast time of two hours a day, Andorradio went on the air on September 18, 1958 in an environment of political tension. A daily six-hour music program was broadcast from the studio in Andorra la Vella , the transmission power was 120 kW.

1958–1981: Rise to one of the leading French commercial radio stations

Due to the frequent confusion with Radio Andorra , Andorradio changed its name to Radiodiffusion des Vallées d'Andorre / Radio des Vallées (Broadcasting of the Valleys of Andorra). At the beginning of 1960, 13 hours of music were broadcast daily with announcements in French and Catalan.

The Council of the Valleys issued on March 29, 1961 two radio stations a broadcast license for 20 years. In May 1964 the new transmission system (300 kW) on the Pic Blanc (2650 m) was put into operation. From July 1964 to November 1965, programs were also temporarily broadcast by Radio Monte Carlo . In 1966 the station adopted the name "Sud Radio" and opened additional studios in Toulouse, rue Alsace-Lorraine. These were later moved to Rue Caraman. In 1968 Sud Radio overtook Radio Andorra in the battle for the listener's favor and became the fourth most popular advertising-financed French broadcaster (after Europe 1 , RTL (France) and Radio Monte Carlo and before Radio Andorra).

The station remained economically in deficit until 1970. In 1972 a more modern transmission system with 900 kW power went into operation on the Pic Blanc . The programs were now in French, from morning to midnight, later until 1 a.m. Before the end of the broadcast there was a literary program in Catalan lasting about fifteen minutes. The cancellation was also in Catalan ( "Sud Radio, radio de les valls, nos emissions s'estinguin, bona nit!" - "Sud Radio, radio of the valleys, our programs will now be switched off, good night!"), And the program ended with the Andorran national anthem . The MW frequency was used by a different radio station at night.

1981–1986: Withdrawal from Andorra

In March 1981, the Council of Valleys refused to extend the license, the staff still working in Andorra la Vella had to be relocated to Toulouse and the broadcasts had to be temporarily suspended. Due to the upcoming French presidential elections, after negotiations with Andorra, broadcasting could continue until November 24, 1981.

After a break of more than a year, Sud Radio started broadcasting again in January 1983 from the vicinity of Toulouse on 1161 kHz and 819 kHz. From March 1983 to 1986 the transmitter on the Pic Blanc (Andorra) could be used again. Sud Radio has also been broadcasting on VHF in south-west France since August 1986.

Since 1987: privatization and digital broadcast technology

  • 1987: Sud Radio, owned by Sofirad , is sold to private shareholders : Laboratoires Pierre Fabre takes control, the regional newspapers La Dépêche du Midi , Midi Libre and Sud-Ouest , the Crédit Agricole u. a.
  • 1992: Relocation of the Biarritz regional studio to Pau . In addition to the main studio in Toulouse, the five regional studios Paris , Perpignan , Montpellier , Bordeaux and Pau guarantee comprehensive coverage for south-west France.
  • 1996: Establishment of a satellite transmission station in the Toulouse studios, which allows the 36 transmitters in the transmission area to be fed directly via the Telecom 2C satellite .
  • 1997: Wit FM in Bordeaux takes over overall control of Sud Radio . Distribution of Sud Radio by CanalSatellite .
  • 1998–2002: Gradual conversion to digital radio transmission.
  • 2003: Sud Radio is the official French broadcaster for the Rugby World Cup in Australia .
  • Nov. 2005: Sud Radio is sold to Sudporters (start group of Orléans, Radio Scoop de Lyon, Alouette FM ).
  • 2011: The transmission via the medium wave transmitter Gauré (near Toulouse) to 819 kHz is stopped.
  • 2016: The station's management decides to move to Paris and to give up the station's regional orientation, which can still be received mainly via FM stations in the south of France.

literature

  • René Duval: Histoire de la radio en France . 1977
  • Sylvain Athiel: Conquérants des ondes . editions private, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gael ÇEREZ: Sud Radio quince Toulouse "cassoulet radio, c'est fini". In: La Tribune . June 2, 2016, accessed August 9, 2020 (French).