Thanks to a post in this here Facebook group we’ve just found out that our friends from FIP are returning to Brighton in April 2016.
You’ll be able to catch them at the Open House on Friday 8th April and then the Fortune Of War on the beach on Saturday 9th April.
Hope to see you there.
On the 5th January 1971 FIP (France Inter Paris) 514 started broadcasting in Paris. Today, on 5th January 2016, FIP as we know it now celebrates it’s 45th birthday.
To celebrate 45 years on air, FIP have launched a number of web radios available through the website www.fipradio.fr and their iOS and Android apps.
Happy Birthday 45th FIP. Here’s to the next 45 🙂
Source: Fip Forum is transferred: Fip Radio is Forty
A slightly older post regarding Fip being 40 but another nice article covering the history of our favourite station.
In the past few days Radio France have announced changes to its station line up, including that of Fip. RF say it will be “Exciting, full of new, historical … it’s back on FIP! Your favorite radio offers new musical events during the day and evening to discover on our antenne and replay on our website on Monday 31 August.”
The new features include
Sous les jupes de Fip
Every Monday from 20h to 22h, a program hosted by Alexandre Desurmont and Luc Frelon
The week opens with Fip with an evening news presented by Alexandre Desurmont and Luc Frelon, music programmers. Latest releases, new talent, exclusive interviews, live sessions … The best music news in any genre, live on Fip.
C’est Magnifip !
Every Tuesday from 20h to 22h, a program hosted by Frédérique Labussière
Fip has always carried his listeners elsewhere … in direct connection with their emotions, memories and desires. Creative escape, Fip explores a new route and gives appointments to listeners for a musical escape, they will chose the theme and destination, by voting on fipradio.fr.
Certains l’aiment Fip
Every Wednesday from 20h to 22h, a program hosted by Susana Poveda
Fip invites listeners to a walk in the musical imagination of a filmmaker, genre films or music composer. By exploring the partitions of a sensitive cinema sound and vibration, Fip offers Impressionist puzzle playing on emotion and sensation.
Live à Fip
Every Thursday from 20h to 22h, a program hosted by Stéphanie Daniel
Because live music is central to the relationship between a musician and his audience, Fip broadcasts every Thursday exceptional concerts to Fip or elsewhere. An appointment where all musical universes collide!
♫ Notre grand classique
The established (and personal favourite) Club Jazzafip remains
Every day at 19h facilitated by Jane Villenet (Monday to Thursday) and Charlotte Bibring (Friday-Sunday)
19h to 20h, it jazz fip! Jane Villenet and Charlotte Bibring receive a programmer for an evening where all the jazz intermingle, big standards to emerging artists.
There are certainly big changes ahead and they sound (excuse the pun) quite exciting. We’re quite excited by having more Frédérique (we met her at the live broadcast and have had a soft spot for her ever since :-D). We hope that the legendary Fipettes are still going to be a big part of the sound of the station.
We’ll know on Monday 31st!
Hello.
If you didn’t already know, there’s a live petition on change.org campaigning for the preservation and development of Fip.
https://twitter.com/opsoro/status/658055153648574466
Fip, as we know, faces a bit of an uncertain future and the world will be a sadder place if we lost it.
The petition is addressed to the Minister of Culture and Communication Fleur Pellerin, the CEO of Radio France Mathieu Gallet, Fip Director Anne SERODE and heading up the #FipToujours collective is Philippe Guihéneuf, a friend.
Preserve and develop FIP, eclectic nugget of Radio France!
Sign the petition here (opens in a new window)
It’s been a while since we had anything to post, but news has reached us that FIP in Paris is under threat.
A Twitter account (@FipToujours) contacted us last night with news that the station may be axed due to a large deficit. Their profile states “Une rumeur absurde a circulé dans la presse le 12 décembre: Fip serait menacée de disparition. Les auditeurs répondent: Fip toujours!” (An absurd rumor circulated in the press on December 12 : Fip would be endangered . Listeners respond : Fip forever!) and they sent us a link to the news article.
The article, which appeared on the France 24 website, states that Radio France will lose 20 million in 2015, Fip and Le Mouv’ are in question.
PARIS (AFP)
The president of Radio France Mathieu Gallet said Thursday that his group would be a deficit in 2015 of € 20 million and questioned the possibility of keeping all stations, targeting and Fip and Le Mouv ‘.
Radio France will lose “twenty million” in 2015, a first in its history, he told the daily Liberation on Thursday. “The current model is no longer valid, given the increase in our payroll,” he further stated in Paris Match. The 2014 budget was voted balance.
Asked about the need to conserve seven channels at Radio France, he replied that “it is the question of the scope (Radio France) that must be asked,” and cited the case of “two small,” Le Mouv’ and Fip.
“Le Mouv and Fip as not amount to much in terms of networks, but they are useful to our development. Fip is a nugget, it works very well. But if we do ‘have more money than we do, “he began.
“In the absence of a coherent strategy or if the results should not be waiting for you (…) a closure of this antenna (note: Le Mouv’) should not be taboo,” already considered late November Senator UMP Jean-Pierre Leleux, in it’s opinion on the audiovisual component of the bill in 2015 finances.
Compared to 2012, the public company, renovated in depth this year, suffered a decline of almost 9 million euros in revenues, which come to 90% of the contribution to public service broadcasting (fee).
The CEO, appointed in May, has also launched several business leads to increase revenues, such as the opening of the antenna to new advertisers. He had already planned on his appointment to charge for podcasts.
The President has said it all in one small sentence. Fip is a nugget, it works very well. It does work very well and that is why it has such a large following, not only here in Brighton and Hove, but also internationally. It will be very sad indeed if Fip is taken from the airwaves.
We’ll try to keep you up to date with progress on this but for now please follow FipToujours on Twitter (@FipToujours) or on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fip-toujours/1521780338072717).
Vive La Fip! Fip Toujours!
Way back in 2008, this poster appeared when Fip disappeared from the Brighton airwaves.
Sadly it appears that Fip is off air again in Brighton and Hove. We’re trying to find out what the story is and will post on here with any news.
Sorry to be the bearer of (hopefully temporary) sad news. You can of course still listen online or through the various apps available in the different app stores.
The loveFip team x
As from the 1st of July 2008 FIP has been unavailable on the Astra and Hotbird satellites. This is apparently due to Canal Plus demanding a substantial increase in fees for carrying the Radio France services on their channels at renewal of contract negotiations. Services may be resumed at a future date subject to agreement.
FIP is still available by satellite on the Atlantic Bird 3 at 5 degrees west, and via the Internet.
The French text of the Radio France announcement is here:
http://www.radiofrance.fr/services/ecouter/satellite.php
We found this really good article on the web whilst having a look around for FIP bits and bobs. We tried to contact the author but his 2 email addresses bounced our message back so we’ve had to re-publish it without his permission. The original can be found here.
This station is sorely missed – it brought a fresh musical perspective to our city. — Susan Bentley, Compton Avenue, Brighton
I am a pensioner living on my own and FIP was one of my few comforts. — Jacquetta Benjamin, from St Michael’s Place, Brighton
I’ve been listening to FIP for around ten years now – it’s one of the perks of living here. — Bill Randall, Brighton and Hove city councillor
I know a couple who bought their house because it had good FIP reception. That was their actual reason for buying it. — Dave Mounfield, Vive La FIP
FIP FM, France Inter Paris, is a radio station broadcasting in Paris.
For the last decade or so, FIP FM has had something of a cult following in Brighton. The signal is heard loud and clear, though this had more to do with the signal being rebroadcast in Brighton by pirate transmitters, than freak weather conditions allowing the signal to bounce over from France.
The popularity of FIP is due to its lack of advertising, minimal DJ chat and its eclectic mix of music. None of your usual formulaic Top 20 moronic pop crap. It would not be unusual to have Dvorak followed by dance followed by trance.
Early 2007, the airways over Brighton suddenly went silent following a raid on the pirate transmitters by Ofcom, the industry regulator. [see Au revoir to French radio in Sussex and Brighton Fip radio bloke pulled off air]
This has led to widespread public outcry. The sensible outcome would be for Ofcom to licence a FIP relay for Brighton.
The station is still available on the Internet and via satellite feed, on Astra 19.2 E.
FIP spread by word of mouth. One reason for it being shut down may have been an article in the Brighton Argus listing the frequencies it broadcast on, which may have drawn it to the attention of Ofcom. [see City tunes in to Gallic station]
That the FIP relay got shut down may also have had something to do with the fact that a self-publicist and attention seeker going by the name of Iain Smith (it may not be his real name) may have snitched to Ofcom, which if nothing else got him featured in Wankers Corner in Brighton’s radical monthly newssheet Rough Music (July 2007).
In a first for RM, this month we’re giving the crown to…er, we’re not sure who really. Basically this month’s wanker is whichever killjoy is responsible for shutting down Brighton’s only decent radio station. No, we don’t mean Radio 4a (never a byword for quality, just check out that Rough Music show at 1pm on the 2nd Sunday of the month and you’ll appreciate what we mean), although they’ve had transmitters busted / nicked lately too – but those Gallic tune-sters at FIP. Since one enthusiast community hero from Hanover began relaying the signal of the French-based station around town, Brightonians have enjoyed a decade of eclectic vibes, without the crass ads and inane egos of UK presenters.
Whilst it was on air and before it was shut down by Ofcom, the signal in Brighton was rebroadcast on 91.0 MHz and 98.5 MHz. This was the same frequencies as in France, and may have explained lack of action by the regulator. It was only available in Brighton, and the fact that it was the same frequencies as in France, may have been put down to some local anomaly and freak atmospheric conditions.
Vive la FIP, who meet regularly in Brighton and have visited the Paris studios of FIP, have vowed to get FIP back on the air.
Dave Mounfield, who runs the successful Vive La FIP tribute nights, told The Argus he hoped that the station will be back on the air in Brighton soon and has announced the intention start up a fighting fund to make it happen. [see FIP fund launched to get station on air and Fip radio to make a comeback]
After seven years of continuous broadcasting purely for the listening pleasure of the Brighton people, for no financial gain, the powers that be have leant on the mysterious folk who make FIP happen in this groovy city.
It has made Brighton that bit less of a groovy place to be – for the time being.
We at Vive La FIP are appalled at this bit of cultural vandalism and judging by the response from the public so are all good, honest Brightonians.
Such was popularity of FIP, that it is rumoured, maybe an urban myth, that people moved house to guarantee reception of FIP.
Jean-Luc Leray, who is responsible for programme content at FIP, says the success of FIP is simple:
The concept is simple and it is the same today as back then.
Music is all – there is not just one kind.
We have seven programmers whose job it is to research and choose the best mixes of music. They are like musicians themselves the way they blend the tracks together.
This is human radio, with real emotions.
FIP FM (France Inter Paris) was launched in 1972 by Radio France, the French equivalent of the BBC
We’ve reviewed this radio and its very good!
The Logik IR100 Internet radio gives you access to over 5,000 radio stations through your Internet broadband connection Including FIP. Global choice – choose from over 5,000 stations from around the world including the UK.
This is a stand-alone radio that uses a connection from any broadband wireless router, and does not require a computer connection to use.
In many places in towns and cities there may be open wireless access points near you so you may not even have to have your own broadband.
Streaming – stream stored audio files from your PC via your wireless router. The IR100 supports Real audio, MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV and AIFF formats.
This product requires a wireless router and broadband Internet access.
Features for this Logik IR100 Internet Radio
* Plug and Play set up
* Easy to use navigation
* Wi-Fi enabled
* Displays track information
* Audio file streaming from PC
* Mains powered only
* 5 presets
* Clock/ alarm
News from Fip
The new website of Fip radio in Brighton & Hove 