Sud Radio
Sud Radio is a French privately owned broadcasting company. Sud Radio was founded in 1962. Until 1981 it used a high-power mediumwave transmitter on Pic Blanc in Andorra. Today Sud Radio can be received in most parts of Southern France in FM, but Sud Radio still uses an AM transmitter at Gauré, by which it can be also received abroad at night.
History
- 1951 an inhabitant of the Valleys of Andorra proposes with the French government to sell a radiophonic user licence to him which it found in his wedding presents. With the request of the President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol, two civils servants of the postal and telecommunications authorities are sent to consider the construction of a transmitter in Andorra. The Andorannes authorities are opposed to it, initially, by fear of difficulties with Evèque d'Urgel, Co-Prince d'Andorre, who protects an existing station: Radio operator Andorra, founded in August 1939
- 1953 engagnent itself of true talks intended to allow the final establishment of a French transmitter.
- 1959 the French Minister for Information, Jacques Soustelle, returns visit in Evèque d'Urgel and persuades it to give its approval to the operation of a second transmitter in Principality.
- March 29th, 1961. Of the agreements are signed between the parts concerned, according to which two stations will henceforth be authorized to emit. The first stone of the new White Pic transmitter which culminates with 2650 meters is posed. The startup of the transmitter is fixed at 1963. The broadcasting of French expression is called Radio of the Valleys of Andorra.
- 1966 the Radio of the Valleys of Andorra yields its place to Radio operator South and opens its offices in Toulouse.
- 1968 Radio operator South becomes the fourth peripheral station of format. It emits on the departments of the French Western South.
- 1969 Radio operator South entrust his sales department to "Information and Publicity" (alias IP), subsidiary of the Agency Cut.
- 1973 Toulouse offices is transferred street Caraman.
- 1981 the Principality of Andorra refuses to renew the concession come to an end. The whole of the personnel which still worked with Andorra-the-Old woman is gathered in Toulouse.
- March 1986 Radio operator South receives the authorization to exploit the band FM August 31
- 1987 Radio operator South settles in the new district of Compans-Caffarelli businesses in Toulouse.
- 1987 Sale of the actions of Radio operator South carried by Sofirad with the private sector. The Laboratories Pierre Fabre take the control of Radio operator South with at their sides, of the regional investors: Dépéche of the South, Free, Southern Midday Western, the Agricultural credit...
- 1990 majority Acquisition of a holding of Radio operator South in one of the first French local radios held hitherto entirely by the Of Gironde ones of Bordeaux: Wit FM. Marketing by IP of the advertising coupling "Full South" (Southern Radio + Wit FM).
- 1992 Displacement of the regional office of Radio operator South of Biarritz towards Pau. This new office supplements the device of cover of the drafting which can thus count on 5 desks delocalized in more of Toulouse: Paris, Perpignan, Montpellier, Bordeaux and Pau.
- 1994 Radio operator South develops his zone of diffusion, at the same time towards the north of Aquitaine and the east of Languedoc Roussillon. The station covers from now on 22 departments.
- 1995 the sales turnover of the Radio Southern group exceeds the bar of the 100 million franks.
- 1996 Installation of a satellite station of increase in the offices of Radio operator South in Toulouse. These means of transport of the modulation make it possible to directly supply the 36 transmitters of the Radio operator Southern network thanks to the satellite Télécom 2C.
- 1997 total Takeover of Radio operator South in the station of Bordeaux Wit FM. Diffusion of the programme of Radio operator South in the radio operator bouquet of Satellite Channel.
- 1998 Wit FM in Bordeaux celebrates its 10 years of existence. Installation of an entirely numerical studio of production in the buildings of Radio operator South. This new studio comes to supplement the 5 other studios of diffusion or production.
- 1999 Installation of the numerical plan aiming at changing the technology of diffusion completely; the whole of the studios pass from analogical to the numerical one. the 2000 All emissions are diffused numerically, and a 2éme numerical studio of production is built. the 2001 SCA allots 4 new frequencies to Radio operator South in the Auvergne-Limousin (Brive, Ussel, Mauriac and Puy in Velay) and thus makes it possible the station to widen its zone of diffusion. the 2002 CDM, centers Modulation of Radio operator South, is digitized, thus finishing the numerical plan of Radio operator South. The whole of the sound chain, of the studio to the diffusion, is thus in numerical technology.
- 2003 Radio operator South is the radio official Frenchwoman of the World cup of Rugby (October 10 at November 22) by proposing 33 matches on the whole of the competition, 24 meetings in integrality, 9 meetings with interventions, 1 daily emission "Rugby Club" of 18h20 with 19h, 5 Radio Southern journalists on line of Australia (Jean-Paul Cazeneuve, Laurent Depret, Michel Garçin, Philippe Moysen, Christophe Miédougé) and 3 consultants (Daniel Herrero, Didier Lacroix, Jacques Fouroux)
- 2005 Radio operator South is yielded to Sudporters. This grouping including the Start group of Orleans (Vibration, Forum, Teenager FM, Black Box...), Radio operator Scoop of Lyon and Alouette FM of the Herbaria is officially owner of Radio operator South and Wit FM in November.
- 2006 Pennies the crook of Bruno Witek (directing of the programs of the Start group) and Jerome Delaveaul (ex directing of the programs of the Contact group), a new grid is launched. June 2006, Southern Radio reaches finally the threshold of the national point in the audiences Médiamétrie (rise confirmed on the survey of summer: 1,2 Pt).
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