French Musical Broadcasting in 1939 through a Comparison between Radio-Paris and Radio-Cité

Christophe Bennet (1)

1 IReMus - Institut de Recherche en Musicologie

THE year 1939 leads us to conclude the annual panorama of the French musical broadcasting of the thirties, a panorama organized through the prism of two big stations of the public and private networks. We have seen that in 1938, while the influence of the Government was weighing even more on the public stations (without any improvement of the programs), the commercial stations, strengthened by several years of experience, were adapting their program schedules in accordance with the success of their new formulas. By responding to the expectations of their audience, those stations continue their action in 1939. They are multiplying the entertainment programs, but they don't neglect the aspirations of the amateur listeners 1. We are going to show that various initiatives, here and there, widen the gap between the two stations. From September on, both stations face troubles in their programs and in their publications. While " Le Petit Radio " , the official organ of the public stations, " apologizes for the inaccuracies which are necessarily about to appear in the columns, due to the current events 2 " , " Ici…Radio-Cité " is publishing the last number of its history, and lets a listener [take the opportunity of] this letter to thank you for the effort that was accomplished by Radio-Cité in order to give as much satisfaction as possible to the lovers of beautiful music. 3

Mots clés: Radio-Paris; Radio-Cité; 1939; Music and Radio; Musical Broadcasting; France in the Thirties

Domaines: Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Christophe Bennet. French Musical Broadcasting in 1939 through a Comparison between Radio-Paris and Radio-Cité. 2015. ⟨hal-01146878⟩