The NRJ Group (NRJ is an acronym read as ''énergie'' in French, pronounced ) () is a French

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group based in

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. Its founders are

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and

Max Guazzini Max Guazzini (born October 23, 1947) is a French entrepreneur and until June 2011, president of the Stade Français rugby union club of Paris, who compete in the top division of rugby union in France, the Top 14. Since arriving at Stade Françai ...

. Since its foundation in 1981 as a French

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radio station it has grown and evolved to become the NRJ Group. NRJ is the most popular radio station in France with 6,159,000 listeners daily. All stations of NRJ Group carry around 40 minutes every hour of non-stop hits (or sometimes, "10 hits in a row"). NRJ Group currently has 33 FM stations (transmitting through 1260 frequencies) and around 220 internet stations and 12 mobile applications, along with replay TV and a host of other services.

The Radio Record Group

The NRJ Group grew from one radio station to a

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of corporate

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s across Europe. It has stations in

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, among others. NRJ plays current and newly released music for young audiences. Their

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and promise is "Hit Music Only". The majority of NRJ-branded stations are operated by the NRJ Group; however, some are licensed, such as the Bulgarian version, which is operated by Communicorp. Within France the NRJ Group operates four separate radio stations: NRJ,

Nostalgie Nostalgie is a popular French radio station broadcasting on FM, mostly playing pre-2000s songs with 76% of them coming from the 1980s. Nostalgie is part of the NRJ Group. History Radio Nostalgie, now simply Nostalgie, was created on 16 Septemb ...

Chérie FM Chérie FM is a French radio station created in 1987 and belongs to the NRJ Group. History Chérie FM is created in 1987 in Paris by Jean-Paul Baudecroux on the then defunct frequency of Gilda la Radiopolitaine. Chérie FM then started broadcast ...

and Rire & Chansons. They also operate the

NRJ 12 NRJ 12 is a French private public-state general-interest television channel belonging to the NRJ Group, created on 31 March 2005 on DTT. The channel is available on DTT, cable, satellite and ADSL. History of the channel Originally called NRJ T ...

and

Chérie 25 Chérie 25 () is a French TV channel, controlled by the NRJ Group. Chérie 25 is launched on TNT, satellite, and xDSL on 12 December 2012. The channel is named after the radio station Chérie FM, owned by the same group. History In 2011, Jean ...

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stations, in addition to NRJ Paris and NRJ Hits

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stations in France. In 1989, NRJ became listed on the

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Secondary Market and has continued to climb, reaching the First Market in 2000 after regrouping all of its assets into the NRJ Group. In French, the pronunciations of NRJ and Energy (''énergie'') are - almost, except for the first

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which is respectively open-mid and close-mid - identical, and sounds very similar to the

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word

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International

With its

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''NRJ/ENERGY'' stations, the Paris-based NRJ Group has challenged the European radio market by being significantly different from other market players like the

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-based

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(Antenne Bayern, RTL Berlin, Yorin FM), and

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(Radio 1 Norway, The Voice) or

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-based MTG (P4 Norway, Rix FM, Lugna Favoriter). Since June 6, 2006 NRJ has been operational in

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, further expanding its reach and influence. On July 6, 2009, NRJ announced it would license its brand to

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, owner of

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radio network, consisting of 10 regional stations in

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, along with a national broadcast as Énergie² on Satellite Radio in Canada and in the

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(the

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channel would be replaced in 2010 with Latitude Franco). This is the first North American expansion for NRJ. Since the mid-1990s, NRJ has licensed its 24/7 programming stream out of Paris, to Japan's largest cable system, Usen Corporation. All of NRJ's international operations are concentrated on a

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station (with the same slogan,

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, sound, etc...) while its competitors tend to create local radio brands with various radio formats, thereby taking advantage of their audience's local identity. NRJ is today broadcasting in over 20 countries, mainly throughout

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, but also in

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and several

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. The following is a list of current and defunct international stations, including France. NRJ also operates four 24-hour hit music television channels, in Lebanon, France, Switzerland, and Belgium. In order to extend friendlier terms to customers and vendors NRJ sacrificed improvements in revenues and margins this explains the year-on-year earnings decline experienced in 2017.

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NRJ GroupNRJ.com Stations around the world

NRJ AustriaNRJ Belgium (Dutch part)NRJ Belgium (French part)NRJ BulgariaNRJ CyprusNRJ FinlandNRJ FranceNRJ GeorgiaNRJ GermanyNRJ GuadeloupeNRJ GuyaneNRJ LebanonNRJ MartiniqueNRJ MauriceNRJ MoroccoNRJ New CaledoniaNRJ NorwayNRJ RéunionNRJ RussiaNRJ SwedenNRJ SwitzerlandNRJ TahitiNRJ Ukraine
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The Radio Record Group

International

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