He created, produced and hosted on France Musique the flagship radio show La Tribune des critiques de disques [fr] from 1946 to 1984 (in particular with Antoine Goléa, Jacques Bourgeois and Jean Roy), as well as other broadcasts.
At the time, UNESCO commissioned him with indexing, with a view to publishing catalogues, all existing recordings of certain composers, starting with Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
In 1985, he created the Armand Panigel Foundation [fr] in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, a group of scholarship specialists in his favourite fields and concerned by the transmission of the memory of the great interpretations of the past, thus sharing 60 years of its private collections: more than 200,000 classical records, 40,000 films and 160,000 books on music and cinema.
Panigel worked as chairman and chief executive officer of "Éditions et impressions de la Cinématographie française (1962–64)", président of the Commission d'avances sur recettes [fr] du cinéma (1975–76), Member of the Board of Directors of the association des auteurs de films, Director of collections of classical music CDs (1993–95).
In 1994, fascinated by new technologies, he began producing and directing CD-ROMs, "because it is a three-dimensional work, combining sound, image and text: it is the dream of my life," he declared to the AFP one year before his death.