France Musique

France Musique (formerly France Musiques) is a French musical public radio station of broadcasting Radio France. The programs of France Musique is especially focused on classical music and jazz, but also offers programs that are focused on electronic music, musical comedies, etc.

The Director of France Musique is Olivier Morel-Maronger. ==History[ Edit] == France Musique, started In 1954under the name of programme musical à modulation de fréquence and later as France IV.

On 4 February 1959, the channel France IV Haute-Fidélité, followed by RTF Haute Fidélité on 20 October 1963, and finally France Musique on 8 december in the same year. ==Programming[ Edit] == France Musique broadcasts mainly classical music. With time the broadcaster transmits more jazz because today, there is more than 10 hours dedicated to jazz music, with the following programs:

Also programmed:
 * "Open Jazz", by Alex Dutilh
 * "Jazzistiques", by Franck Médioni
 * "Jazz Club", by Yvan Amar
 * "Le bleu, la nuit ..." by Xavier Prévost
 * "On ne badine pas avec le jazz" by Jérôme Badini and Patrice Bertin


 * "Couleurs du monde", by Françoise Degeorges, world music
 * "42ème rue", by Laurent Valière
 * "Tapage Nocturne", by Bruno San Sebastien 75011
 * "Label pop"
 * "Cinéma song" by Thierry Jousse