The CSA and all the partner radio stations are pleased to announce that the first Radio Festival will take place throughout France from May 31, 2021. Europe 1, obviously associated with the event, will communicate in the coming weeks its device.
The radio is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
What could be better than a party to celebrate this medium which is part of everyone's daily life?
This will be done from May 31 with the first radio festival launched by the CSA and its president, Roch-Olivier Maistre.
For a week, radio stations and listeners will be able to relive the history of this medium which this year celebrates the centenary of the first radio broadcasts from the Eiffel Tower site, the 40 years of the liberation of the FM band and the acceleration of the deployment. digital terrestrial radio (DAB +).
In order to retrace the evolutions of a media resolutely turned towards the future and to commemorate its history, the CSA and all the actors of the sector are mobilized to make this first edition a success: a multitude of initiatives and meetings. intended for all audiences will be offered.
And the Fête de la radio website is made available to the general public in order to know everything about this event and allow everyone to know what initiatives are organized near their home.
2021 also marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the airwaves.
The law of November 9, 1981 indeed provides for exemptions from the State monopoly for local private associative radios and it is the appearance of the first "free radios" which can then transmit in frequency modulation, but without broadcasting advertising messages. .
It is the first step towards the liberalization of the radio and the regularization of all the radios which emit illegally, sometimes since the end of the Sixties.