Radio Monte Carlo

Radio Monte Carlo (RMC) is the name of six radio stations owned and managed by three different entities:

*RMC Info is the French-speaking station, broadcasting in France and Monaco from Paris with some contributions from Monaco. Radio Monte-Carlo was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950. Since 1995 the monegasque membership is held by Groupement de Radiodiffuseurs Monégasques (GRMC), a joint organisation by Monte-Carlo Radiodiffusion (MCR), Radio Monte Carlo (RMC) and Télé Monte-Carlo (TMC).

*RMC Radio Monte Carlo Network is an Italian-speaking station, broadcasting in Italy and Monaco from both Monaco and Milan. Now owned by RCS MediaGroup, it was founded in 1966 by Noel Cutisson, enlisted in as deejays: Antonio Devia, Awanagana, Ettore Andenna, Gigi Salvadori, Herbert Pagani, Liliana Dell'Acqua, Luisella Berrino, Manuela De Vito, Marco Odino, Mario Conti,Max Pagani,Riccardo Heinen, Roberto Arnaldi, Valeria Porrà, and others. Nowadays deejays are: Paolo Dini, Lester, Luisella Berrino, Maurizio Di Maggio, Massimo Valli, Max Venegoni, Patrizia Farchetto, Marco Porticelli, "Jackie", Nick "The Nightfly", Kay Rush, "Katamashi", Stefano Bragatto, Monica Sala, Clive Malcolm Griffiths, Mauro Pellegrino and Erina Martelli.

*Radio Monte Carlo 2 (RMC2) is a second Italian-speaking station associated with RMC Radio Monte Carlo Network broadcasting in Italy and Monaco.

*Radio Monte Carlo Swiss is a German-speaking station broadcasting from Zurich, Switzerland. It has common ownership with the Italian RMC stations, being part of RCS MediaGroup

*Radio Monte Carlo Moyen-Orient is the mainly Arabic-speaking station, broadcasting in many locations throughout the Middle East from Paris. It was founded in 1972 and is a member of the Radio France Internationale Group [http://www.rmc-mo.com/en/qui_sommes_nous/index.asp] .

*Radio Monte Carlo - Moscow Russia is also broadcast from Moscow, Russia. This is a Russian speaking radio station that air modern, new age, and semi classic music, both domestic and international along with news and other broadcasts.

Perception

Radio Monte Carlo is considered one of the most popular networks especially in non-European Italian and French-speaking regions for its assumed neutrality. During the Iraq War, it was mentioned by some journalists as a reliable source.Radio Monte Carlo was founded by the Nazis during WW2, March 1942 to be exact, ceased transmition in June 1944 and back on the air with American help as a joint venture with the Principaute of Monaco in August 1944. The French government sold its share to a private holding group in 1998 of Sud Radio and la Depeche du Midi.

Broadcasts in Other languages

Radio Monte Carlo's transmission network includes some high power Longwave and Meduiumwave transmitters located at Roumoules in France. For many years the MW unit has been hired out at nighttime to the Middle East Reformed Fellowship through Trans World Radio, with programming in various languages including Arabic and English. In 1970, RMC's transmitters were also used by the short lived British commercial album station Radio Geronimo.

"The World Tomorrow" broadcast in Russian

During the late 1950s The World Tomorrow radio broadcast of Herbert W. Armstrong was carried by Radio Monte Carlo in the English, Spanish and Russian languages. Armstrong claimed that while the "Voice of America" was jammed by the Soviet Union, his Russian language broadcast was heard loud and clear in Moscow.

Transmitters

* Transmitter Roumoules, one of the most powerful broadcasting stations on the world
* Col de La Madonne
* Fontbonne

External links

* [http://www.rmcinfo.fr RMC Info] (FR)
* [http://www.radiomontecarlo.net Radio Monte Carlo Network] (IT)
* [http://www.radiomontecarlo2.net Radio Monte Carlo 2 (RMC2)] (IT)
* [http://www.radiomontecarlo.ch/ Radio Monte Carlo Swiss] (DE)
* [http://www.rmc-mo.com/en Radio Monte Carlo Moyen-Orient]
* [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Monte_Carlo#Radio_Monte_Carlo_Network.html Radio Monte Carlo Story]
* [http://www.twr.org/ Trans World Radio]
* [http://www.radiogeronimo.com Radio Geronimo]
* [http://www.montecarlo.ru/ Радио Монте-Карло (Russian)]