Eldoradio

The non-profit organ­i­sa­tion Eldoradio and its web­siteeldo­radio.fr (click here) were cre­ated by radio afi­cionados and pro­fes­sionals Joëlle Girard, Bruno Labouré and Philippe Sage on 1st January 2010 with the aim of intro­ducing cur­rent and future gen­er­a­tions to what has hap­pened on French radio waves before and after the 1981 abo­li­tion of state monopoly on radio dif­fu­sion. Eldoradio.fr fur­ther wishes to address the impor­tance of a key period in French radio his­tory, the so-called ‘Radios Libres’ (Free Radio) era during which the people could express them­selves freely and legally on FM waves. Eldoradio.fr is also a social net­work enabling pro­fes­sionals to create their space and to upload their own archives. Every day, eldo­radio.fr adds new mate­rial out of a col­lec­tion of sev­eral dozens of thou­sands of hours of radio pro­grammes, of press arti­cles, images and videos. Every new sound is accom­pa­nied by a chron­icle giving written by Philippe Sage.