Radio in France

[1] However, radio only became fully developed during the interwar period, when the Daladier government brought broadcasting under their centralized control in 1938.

[1] During the First World War, General Gustave-Auguste Ferrié began using the Eiffel Tower for radio transmissions.

[1] Radiotechnique, founded in 1919 as a holding company for Émile Girardeau's Société française radio-électrique, began manufacturing radio sets in 1921.

At that time, Radio Monte Carlo (RMC) started to broadcast on Long Wave at 216 kHz.

In 1981, as promised by newly elected François Mitterrand,[citation needed] independent stations were allowed, at first with very little power and on FM only.

A black-and-white photograph of Eugène Ducretet. — Ducretet was the first person to send radio transmissions in France.