France Bleu Saint-Étienne Loire

The local headquarters are in Saint-Étienne in the Manufacture Plaine Achille, near the studios of France 3.

[2] The station is also broadcast in the Loire department, a large part of the Haute-Loire as well as a small part of that of Rhône on FM: it covers the agglomerations of Saint-Étienne, Roanne, Montbrison and Le Puy-en-Velay.

The creation of the station was announced in January 2013 by Phillippe Chaffanjon [fr] to fill a gap in network coverage.

[4] Soft launching without an announcement, it began broadcasting on 9 September 2013, as the 44th outpost of the network.

Its creation was criticized by the union of Radio France employees as "a detriment to the other stations in the network".