Arcom ensures that service editors comply with their obligations to invest in audiovisual and cinematic production. We protect works, copyright and neighboring rights, encourage the development of legal supplies and study public practices and uses.
Arcom summons frequencies assigned to the audiovisuel sector, guaranteeing quality reception for the public and optimal conditions of use for professionals.
Arcom ensures that audiovisuel service editors respect plurality in the expression of thought and opinion.
Arcom's societal responsibilities involve the entire sector in the pursuit of social cohesion objectives such as the representation of diversity in French society, women's rights, the fight agains discrimination of all kinds, public health, sustainable development, program accessibility for the disabled and the defense of the French language.
Find our services, applications and directories for FM, DAB+ and web radio.
There are many ways to receive radio, and the traditional radio set is still the most widespread means of listening to this medium, but there are other ways too. The development of DAB+ also supplies a new dimension to the radio medium in terms of quality.
Thanks to "Ma Radio FM", discover the list of radio stations received in your commune, their frequency and the location of their transmitter.
Would you like to report a radio reception problem?
There are many causes of poor radio reception. From faulty or misused equipment to electrical interference and transmitter problems.
Some solutions come under the control of you. These will be the first you try before summoning Arcom to check why you still can't listen to the radio broadcasts you're watching.
Arcom maintains an up-to-date directory of operators in the radio sector.
Radio stations are responsible for the content of the programs they show. They are free to decide what programs they broadcast, depending on the audience they wish to reach, as long as they comply with their obligations. Arcom does not intervene in their programming.
To exercise your right to reply to radio stations, please contact the station concerned directly.
Speaking times outside and during election periods
Arcom (the French regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication) is responsible for ensuring the plurality of thought and opinion on television and radio. It monitors the breakdown of political speaking time on news programmes, and regularly publishes data to analyze the equitable access of political candidates and leaders to the audiovisual media.
Would you like to alert Arcom to a program?
France's radio supply is highly diverse: FM is an area of private and public radio stations offering a wide variety of programming. More than 1,000 private and public operators broadcast in France and overseas France, over 20% of them associations.
Arcom's regulation is not confined to the FM band, which comprises some 8,000 frequencies.
Arcom is also responsible for
The public audiovisual communication sector comprises 6 organizations , including 3 national program companies , for which Arcom plays an important role in guaranteeing their independence and ensuring that they carry out their missions properly.
The result of more than 30 hearings and consultations with the main radio industry professionals, Arcom has published its White Paper on the future of radio in France, which takes a broad look at the sector and its economic, legal and technical aspects, as well as developments in usage.
DAB+ technology is gradually being rolled out in France. Every year, new transmitters are put into service to ensure ever finer coverage of the country.
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.
In order to gain a better understanding of a rapidly developing sector and market, Arcom and the French Ministry of Culture have set up the Podcast Observatory.
Every year, Arcom updates the list of confirmed artists.Radio stations adapt their musical programming according to the list published by Arcom.
Any track, whether or not extracted from an album, is considered a new production for a period of nine months from the date of its first diffusion on one of the radio stations in the Yacast panel, if it receives at least three weekly airings for two consecutive weeks.
The agreements between Arcom and the publishers set out the general and specific obligations of the radio stations.
The national program companies Radio France, France Télévisions and France Médias Monde are not required to sign agreements with Arcom for their radio stations (FIP, France Bleu, France Culture, France Info, France Inter, France Musique and Mouv'; overseas France La 1ère; RFI and Monte Carlo Doualiya). However, they are bound by a set of specifications, the content of which is laid down by government decree.
Arcom publishes the agreements of national, generalist (category E) and thematic (category D) radio stations, authorized for FM and DAB+, as well as freeway radio stations (107.7 MHz) and any amendments.
To access the agreements of other private radio stations, or to obtain the accessible version of the agreements of private radio stations for people with disabilities, we invite you to make a request to the Arcom teams by following this link.
Arcom carries out studies and analyses that shed light on the functioning of the audiovisual and digital industries and contribute to decision-making. Its research focuses in particular on developments in the use, programming and distribution of audiovisual and digital services and content, as well as on media audiences.
