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Radio France Internationale
Type International public broadcaster
Country
France
Availability


  • France

  • Canada

  • Worldwide


Founded 1975
Owner
Government of France through France Médias Monde


  • Telus TV

  • Bell TV

  • Bell Fibe


Channel 971
Videotron


  • Channel 551

  • Channel 552 (RFI Musique)


Affiliation


  • European Broadcasting Union

  • World Radio Network

  • France 24

  • TV5MONDE

  • French Minister of Foreign Affairs

  • Institut national de l'audiovisuel

  • Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

  • Fnac


Official website
www.rfi.fr



Logo of Radio France Internationale from 1996 till June 2013.


Radio France Internationale generally referred to by its acronym RFI, is a French public radio service that broadcasts in Paris and all over the world. With 35.6 million listeners in 2008, it is one of the most listened to international radio stations in the world, along with BBC World Service, Voice of America and China Radio International.


RFI broadcasts 24 hours per day across the world in French and in 12 other languages in FM, shortwave, medium wave, satellite and on its website. It is a channel of the state company France Médias Monde.[1] The majority of shortwave transmissions are in French and Hausa but also includes some hours of Swahili, Portuguese, Mandinka, and Russian.


RFI was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the Government of France, and replaced the Poste Colonial (created in 1931), Paris-Mondial (1937), Radio Paris (1939), a private station which was commandeered by the Germans during the occupation of France, and the Voice of France which was operated by the Vichy regime from 1941 to 1944, RTF Radio Paris (1945) and ORTF Radio Paris (1965). In 1986 the French Parliament changed the law to allow RFI to operate independently of Radio France.


RFI operates under the auspices and primary budget of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. It broadcasts primarily in French, but also in English, Swahili, Hausa, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Persian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian and as of 2015, Manding. It also owns Monte Carlo Doualiya (formerly Radio Monte Carlo Middle East), which produces Arabic programmes in Paris, and airs them from a transmitter in Cyprus to audiences across the Middle East and North Africa.




Contents






  • 1 Incidents


  • 2 Podcasts


  • 3 Transmission network


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 Bibliography


  • 7 External links





Incidents


On 17 September 2002 Togolese President Gnassingbé Eyadéma tried to stop the broadcasting of an interview with one of his opponents, Agbéyomé Kodjo, by phoning directly to the Elysée Palace. The interview was not censored by Jean-Paul Cluzel, RFI's CEO at the time, due to the coordinated intervention of the journalists' trade-unions. However, a report raising questions regarding the French secret services responsibilities in the 1995 death of judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti, which was broadcast on 17 May 2005, was later removed from RFI's website for undisclosed reasons, possibly due to the intervention of Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh.[2]


On 21 October 2003, Jean Hélène was reporting for RFI during the civil war in Ivory Coast when he was killed in Abidjan by police Sergeant Théodore Séry Dago.


On 2 November 2013, RFI reporting team Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were murdered while covering the Mali elections. The United Nations set their death date to commemorate the International Day of Impunity each year.[3]



Podcasts


RFI offers a daily podcast in simple French, accessible via iTunes, named 'Journal en français facile'. [1] There are also several other podcasts including the weekly Afrique Presse[4] which is hosted by Assane Diop and discusses the most important news in Africa that week.



Transmission network


On shortwave, RFI primarily transmits from a relay station in Issoudun (owned and operated by TDF Group) but also leases airtime from a relay station in Madagascar which was formerly operated by Radio Netherlands Worldwide



  • Most transmissions are at 500kW of power.

  • Issoudon uses revolutionary ALLISS antenna technology. These antennas are rotatable 360° and support 6 shortwave bands.


TDF Group previously operated shortwave relay stations in Allouis, France and French Guiana but shut them down some years ago due to financial concerns.



See also


  • France 24


References





  1. ^ fr:Radio france internationale


  2. ^ "Une " CNN à la française " - Parrain privé, chaîne publique". Le Monde Diplomatique. January 2006..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em} (also available in Persian here)


  3. ^ "UN General Assembly adopts resolution on journalists safety - Reporters Without Borders". rsf.org.


  4. ^ Afrique Presse




Bibliography



  • Thierry Perret (2010). "'L'Afrique à l'écoute': La France, l'Afrique et la radio mondiale". Cahiers d'Études africaines (in French) (198-199–200) – via Revues.org.
    open access publication – free to read


External links




  • (in French) RFI website


  • (in English) English-language site

  • RFI Hausa service

  • RFI English Facebook Page


  • (in English) RFI Music programme on Facebook World Tracks

  • RFI English language Music section

  • Music biographies in the RFI English language website

















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