Virgin Radio (France)

Infobox Radio station
name = Virgin Radio


city =
area = France: National (FM)
branding =
slogan = "Rock Star Music", "Get More" (2008)
airdate = 1986
(as Europe2, relaunched as "Virgin Radio" 1/1/2008)
frequency = various
format = Rock/Pop
owner = Lagardère Active
sister_stations = Europe 1| webcast =
website = [http://www.virginradio.fr www.virginradio.fr]
affiliations =

Virgin Radio is a French network of FM radio stations dedicated to Rock and Pop music, operating on 250 different frequencies across France. Its musical programming is closely related to the American Hot Adult Contemporary format. The network was known as Europe 2 (as the contemporary music sister of Europe 1) until 1 January, 2008, when it was rebranded as Virgin Radio.

The station capital does not in fact belong to Virgin Group, but to Lagardère Active, which has to pay 0.5 to 1% of its profits to Virgin Group under a franchise contract.

Virgin Radio claims approximately 3 million listeners every day.

Presenters

* Cauet
* Bruno Guillon
* Camille Combal
* Eric Madelon
* Philippe Despont
* Sébastien Sefrin
* Double F
* Thomas Caussé
* Léo Lanvin
* DJ Zebra

Main former presenters (Europe 2: 1986-2007)

*Manu Levy
*Rémy Jounin (1986-1989)
*Bernard Schu (1987-1989)
*Valli (early 90's)
*Native (early 90's)
*Thierry Steiner (1991-2001)
*Les Nuls (1992-1993)
*Franck Pelloux (1994-2006)
*Géraldine Carré (1995-1997)
*Laurent Baffie (1999-2000)
*Fred Haffner (1999-2006)
*Cauet (2000-2004)
*Laurent Dereux (2000-2005)
*Arthur (2004-2006)
*Jonathan Lambert (2004-2006)
*Maître Levy (2004-present)
*Double F (2004-present)
*Patrick Timsit (2005)
*Alexandre Pesle (2005)
*Jean-François Halin (2005)
*Muriel Barrel (2005)
*Maurad (2006)
*Nagui (2006-present)
*Eric Madelon (2006-present)
*7R
*Richard Bohringer
*Marc Lavoine
*RLP
*Miguel
*Gwen
*Morgan
*Albert
*Bill
*Barth
*Jeff
*Ludo
*Marc Jolivet
*Antoine De Caunes
*Laurent Boyer
*Yvan Le Bolloc'h and Bruno Solo
*Kad et Olivier
*Jean-Yves Lafesse
*Frédérique Bedos
*Sébastien Séfrin
*Catherine Lara
*Cyril Monnier
*Yann Arribard
*Sylvie Bariol
*Frédéric Ferrer
*Magali Asselin
*Thierry Weigert
*Christiane Schaeler
*Patricia Varel
*Laurence Crenn
*Bruno Labouré
*Denis Florent
*Serge Francisque
*Philippe Robin
*Vincent Neveu
*Frédéric Hubert
*Olivier Riou
*Lionel Saffré
*Julien Pauchet
*Bianca Holst
*Corinne Roussel
*Nicolas Du Roy
*Christophe Laury
*Pat Angeli
*Guillaume Aubert
*Franck Vallières
*Eric Charlet
*Rémy Caccia
*Marie Lecoq
*Princesse Jade
*Myriam Callas
*Bruno Dubois
*Christophe Marceaux
*Jérémie Edouard
*Aurélie
*Sandrine Vendel
*Kash (- 2008)...

External links

* [http://www.virginradio.fr/ Virgin Radio] - Official site.
* [http://e2maxx.free.fr E2Maxx'] - Unofficial site, memory of former Europe 2
* [http://v2maxx.free.fr V2Maxx'] - Unofficial present site