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Fête de la radio 2022: on June 2 and 3, Arcom celebrates France's favorite medium!
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The Fête de la Radio is organized on the initiative of Arcom and the Association pour la Fête de la Radio, on Thursday June 2 and Friday June 3, 2022, at La Seine Musicale and on all national and local radio stations.
The second edition of the Fête de la radio takes place on Thursday June 2 and Friday June 3. As in 2021, all national and local radio stations will be celebrating radio. Special programs, concerts, conferences, events, open houses and much more are planned all over France. It's an opportunity to pay tribute to those who make this passionate medium so successful.
Follow the Fête de la radio accounts: Fête de la radio website - Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - YouTube
Arcom at the Assises de la Radio
Les Assises de la Radio is organized on the initiative ofArcom and the Association pour la Fête de la Radio, as part of the Fête de la Radio 2022 in the Salon CLUB of the Paris Radio Show at the Seine Musicale. Over two mornings, 35 speakers will discuss a range of topics related to radio and digital audio, including :
- Ma radio locale en 2025 - financements, défis et perspectives. (Thursday, June 2, 9:35 a.m.)
- Does the future of radio lie in images? (Thursday, June 2, 10:45 a.m.)
- Diffusion, distribution, reception - The future of listening (Friday June 3, 9:15am)
- The challenge of sound - Common challenges and future battles. (Friday June 3 11am)
A word from Arcom's Chairman at the opening of the Assises de la Radio
Here are the words of Arcom President Roch-Olivier Maistre on Thursday June 2, at La Seine Musicale:
"This event is an opportunity to highlight the extraordinary richness and diversity of our radio landscape, which includes over 1,000 stations, in mainland and overseas France: this network is the strength of the radio medium and enables it to be a vector of proximity and social ties, a privileged player in information and a valuable relay for artists and creators." Roch-Olivier Maistre, President of Arcom.
To read the Arcom Chairman's opening address in full, click here.
The Sound Challenge - Common challenges and future battles
Arcom College Advisor Hervé Godechot, who chairs Arcom's "Radios and Digital Audio" working group, will be taking part in the round-table discussion entitled "Le challenge du Son - Enjeux communs et futures batailles" on Friday June 3, from 11am, alongside Charles-Emmanuel Bon, director of radio operations, Lagardère, Emmanuel Boutterin, president of the SNRL, Joël Ronez, president of PIA/Binge, Elsie Russier, head of the CLEMI Labo-Formation unit, Maryam Salehi, deputy director of the NRJ group and Christophe Schalk, president of SIRTI.
Modernising radio: deployment of digital terrestrial radio or DAB+.
DAB+ radio (Digital Audio Broadcasting, the "+" corresponds to a development in the worldwide digital terrestrial radio (DTR) diffusion norms) complements FM diffusion, whose frequency band is now saturated. Every year, new transmitters are brought into service to ensure ever finer coverage of the country. With the opening of new multiplexes in October 2021, 42% of the population in mainland France is now covered by DAB+.
Three multiplexes were also launched on May 17, 2022, in the Orleans, Poitiers and Tours areas. More towns will be covered before the end of the year, bringing DAB+ coverage to 50% of the population.
DAB+ rollout roadmap for 2022-2024
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Listen to your favorite radio station digitally
Arcom's Ma Radio DAB Plus service is regularly updated by our teams, as DAB+ technology is rolled out across the country.
You can browse the interactive map below (click on the map). Once you've entered your desired location (by department, then by town), you'll find out which digital radios are currently available in your area.
Questions and answers
No, because unlike DTT for television, DAB+ technology has the advantage of being able to coexist with radio's "traditional" broadcasting method, the FM band. This means that digital terrestrial radio can work in tandem with FM diffusion, just as DTT had rapidly replaced analog television diffusion in France. Of course, as with FM, reception of DAB+ radio will remain completely free of charge.
As with DTT, your reception equipment must be compatible. While DAB+-compatible radios can receive FM signals, the reverse is not always true.
To receive digital radio, you'll need the right equipment. There are a wide range of DAB+ receivers available at very different costs, starting from a few dozen euros. Since the end of 2019, all radio receivers sold in France, except car radios, must integrate DAB+. As of mid-2020, all car radios in new cars sold in France will also incorporate DAB+. The European Electronic Communications Code, which must be transposed into French law by the end of 2020, also makes provision for DAB+ integration in radio receivers.
The French radio landscape is characterized by its richness and the sheer number of different services on offer.
The radio supply varies from city to city.
That's why listeners at home or on the move often have to ask themselves this question:
What radio stations can I listen to where I am?
Simply enter the name of the desired listening location, and "Ma Radio FM" lists the radio programs likely to be heard in the commune indicated, their frequency of diffusion and the name of the point from which the program is shown.
(e.g. France Inter on 87.8 MHz from the Eiffel Tower).
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