Radio Contact (Belgium)

Radio Contact is a commercial radio station in Belgium. To end 2008 the broadcaster was active in Flanders. Today it consists only in Wallonia under the banner of RTL Group.

The motto of Radio Contact was Flanders ' your number 1 hits station '. Later it was that ' The hits you want! '.

Radio Contact was formed from the Brussels local radio Cosmos that was booted by Marleen Bailey. After several successful years got the founder a brain hemorrhage which they died. Radio Cosmos was sold and went through life as a Radio Contact from that point. Francis Lemairewas head. The first broadcasts of Radio Contact were alternately Francophone and Dutch-speaking. From the autumn of 1981 there was a separate Dutch-speaking and a French-speaking frequency in Brussels.From then on, the French would retain its original frequency 101.3 fm Contact while his Dutch counterpart would make use of the 104 FM. On 1 June 1982, at 6: 30 am will start with the first journal to Radio Contact. In addition, the station first to start with publicity. That was assured by a company that fully onafankelijk works by radio Contact: The Department of radiation of media brokers IP Belgium.



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[hide] *1 Flanders  ==Flanders[ Edit] == Because rural radio in Flanders was forbidden until the year 2001 was to realize the required Radio Contact national coverage through local radio stations. In 1986 indicative Radio Contact Franchising group. Radio Free Radio Annick from Antwerp, Ghent, Kortrijk and WLS Radio from Radio in Borinage from Mons are the first members. At the peak the network existed from about 50 frequencies. Initially brought all drives their own broadcasts, which were later replaced by dribs and drabs national programmes from Brussels. Radio Contact was very active in supporting all kinds of events such as pop concerts, sporting events... Networks were prohibited in Flanders In 1991 by the Decree Van Rompuy. The protest and took nothing from the marathon broadcast. Only Brussels if still the name Contact wear. One avoided the restrictions by buying ad time on local radio stations that remained onafankelijk.Only in 1994 was again used the name Radio Contact throughout Flanders. In 1998, the second start Family Radionetwork of Radio Contact.
 * 1.1 old-news readers-journalists
 * 1.2 former presenters
 * 2 Wallonia
 * 3 external link

In the year 2000 was Radio Contact Flanders with an 8% market share and 734.000 listeners the fourth channel in Flanders after Radio 2 (35.2 percent), Donna (20.9%) and Radio 1 (9.1 percent). Followed by Studio Brussel (7%) and TOPradio (3,4%).[1]

Not only was stopping Family Radio also announced but it is reported to have interest in the creation of a national commercial radio. The transmitter was trying to win a license with the project Contact 2. An administrative confusion (Vloro NV which candidate was for the license had no media experience according to the Government) made sure 4FM and scored better Q-music and that Radio Contact in the cold stopped[source?]. There followed a legal fight because according to the share of the injured network knew ' Think Media ', that is 50% owner of 4FM, one day before the award of the licenses a spectacular price rise by 20%. So there, according to the press release, evidence that the ' acted ', in Think Media for knowledge[source? ].

In 2001 the then flopped network Contact 2 replaced Family radio.

By the arrival of Q-music and competition from radio Donna lost Contact listeners. Numerous public planning experiments followed each other from 2003 on but could not turn the tide. On december 12, 2008 it was announced that Radio Contact with it stops in Flanders<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="307" style="line-height:1;">[source?]. There were another year long (up to decemember 2009) non-stop oldies broadcast on the frequencies of the network under the heading Contact +.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On december 2, 2009 were all taken over by the network frequencies of Radio Contact Flanders ClubFM. ===Old-news readers-journalists<span class="mw-editsection" len="367" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Former presenters<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Wallonia<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In French-speaking Belgium is Radio Contact for years one of the most popular radio stations. In recent years it has alternately with Bel RTL, likewise from the RTL Group, market leader.
 * Thierry De Neve
 * Kurt P
 * Geert Schalck
 * Ludwig Verdun
 * Gerrit Six
 * Ad Van Zeyl
 * Louis Weenen
 * Guy Vanhengel
 * Wim De Smet

<p lang="en" len="123" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The most famous mottos of Radio Contact in Wallonia were: ' C'est Super, Radio Contact, Radio Contact ' and later ' Feel good '.