NRJ
Nouvelle Radio Jeune, (Acronym: NRJ, French pronunciation: [enɛʁʒi], lit. 'energy') is a private French radio station created by Jean-Paul Baudecroux and Max Guazzini in June 1981, and was widely popularized thanks to its godmother singer Dalida, who prevented it from closing in 1984.[1] Today radio belongs to the NRJ Group and is the founding station of NRJ International.
For other uses, see NRJ (disambiguation).Type
Gazprom-Media (Russia);
NRJ Group (France, Belgium, Germany);
Modern Times Group (Norway);
Bauer Media Group (Sweden, Finland);
N&C Radio Privé (Austria);
Ringier AG (Switzerland);
Communicorp (Bulgaria);
Sky Production (Egypt)
15 June 1981 (France)
1988 (Belgium)
1991 (Germany)
1 October 1993 (Sweden)
6 October 1995 (Finland)
1 April 1998 (Austria)
1 January 1998 (Norway)
13 August 2003 (Switzerland)
17 November 2005 (Bulgaria)
6 April 2006 (Ukraine)
6 June 2006 (Lebanon)
1 September 2006 (Russia)
14 March 2017 (Georgia)
3 March 2017 (Egypt)
1 December 2017 (Cyprus)
2018 (Mauritius)
2023 (Ukraine)
The main station only focuses on current chart hits throughout the day and electronic dance music during some weekend late night hours. Talk programs are based every evening except Saturday. In contrast, its web radios are devoted to a vast range of music: rap, RnB, dance, hip-hop, electronic, top 40, urban and rock.
Name of the station[edit]
NRJ was originally the acronym for Nouvelle Radio Jeune (New Youth Radio) or Nouvelle radio pour les jeunes (New Radio for the Youth), and was not invented to be an allograph of "energy". In the non-French countries where the station also operates, the radio station is simply called Energy, because NRJ can be pronounced phonetically in French as Energy or NRG.
Programming[edit]
NRJ broadcasts a non-stop program known as "Top 40" or "CHR", centered around the hits of the moment, as demonstrated by its slogan "Hit music only!" and it runs "more than 40 minutes of hits in a row every hour". The concept "10 hits in a row" is again on air since January 9, 2017, on NRJ which characterizes the hit format of the radio, with the current motto "They are 10, they are fresh, they never stop". (French: "Ils sont 10, ils sont frais, ils ne s'arrêtent jamais".) From 2018, NRJ starts carrying "12" or "13 hits in a row".
Since the creation of NRJ, several slogans were used: