What is RMC ?

[SportBoy333]

Ive been hearing about it for years but Im still not sure what it is. Is it some kind of all sports radio station ?

[NicolasN.]

Ive been hearing about it for years but Im still not sure what it is. Is it some kind of all sports radio station ?

Kinda. There is only talk show on this radio about sports or politics.
There is some interesting shows about soccer like luis attaque with luis fernandez and sometimes Didier Deschamps.

Soccer games are in live and they are doing a review after every championship round or champions league like today. There were for exemple Rolland Courbis (former Marseille coach, actual Montpellier coach), or Jean Michel Larqué (former Saint-Etienne player).

http://www.rmc.fr/

[Catel]

Radio Monte-Carlo is historically a popular radio station, originally created by the Nazis in 1942 for propaganda, and one of the few commercial radios existing in France after the war - because French State hold a monopoly on the broadcasting from France, and RMC was broadcasting from Monaco, as Europe1 did from occupied Germany or RTL* from Luxemburg.

It was bought out in 2001 by a former manager from NRJ (music radio for youngsters - did you notice the pun ?) and remodeled on the US talk radios. Its tag line is "Info, talk, sport".

The sports they essentially talk about are soccer, basketball (the NBA championship) and motor sports.



* Ta-ta talataaaa, ta-ta talataaaaa

[guignol]

i'm generally tuned into france culture or france musiques (radio classique? mais mon très cher, c'est pour les pauvres qui ne peuvent pas aller plus loin que la lettre à élise, c'est pour dire... enfin, il faut un peu de tout pour faire un monde, n'est-ce pas?...) so RMC? on the few occasions i've been literally forced into listening to it (trying to pick up the OL match on the autoroute or in the TGV) i've perceived, besides the excruciatingly poor quality of their play-by-play announcers (not a patch on our local hit&sport) a very pronounced OM, or at least anti-OL bias...

that said, they apparently interviewed cris last week (une fois n'est pas coûtume) and HE said...

- that his recovery is going VERY well and he counts on PLAYING in january...

- that the club naturally had a hard time getting started but is going great guns now...

- that benzema is great and it's no surprise to anyone on the team...

- that he plans on finishing his career at OL and living in Lyon all his born days...

- that gerland is a better atmosphere than the maracana (excusez du peu!)

- that his son had a dream that OL is going to create a big surprise in the CL!

[Gnafron]

Radio Classique has improved quite a lot lately even if i enjoy listening to Charles Valentin Alkan, Karlheinz Stockhausen :( or Couperin none being broadcast except on France Musique(s).

RMC is thye vox populi, vox dei radio nothing else: when Lyon get smashed by Barça the subject of the day is : " French football is crap, maybe the crappiest of Europe", When Mandanda plays 3 good games in a row it's "Should Mandanda be the first keeper of the French National Team ?" etc.:rolleyes:

The most interesting programs on radio are Pierre-Louis Basse's on Europe 1 on Mondays (even if his left-wing ideas are almost unbearable as all he has to say about Lyon is that JMA is an evil businessman; he is a good novel and sports essays writer though) and Thierry Jean-Pierre on the same radio on Thursdays with Vincent Duluc one of the best sports journalists right now, a former Le Progrès de Lyon journalist)

[guignol]

i'm not sure exactly what station, but my wife listens to j-p coffe's show and it's palatable... i've even heard him say things like "properly reheated, quality industrial croissants are preferable to poorly made fresh-baked ones" or that "canned tuna and sardines can be excellent products"... he used to be an insufferable twit on TV but he's "put some water in his wine" since and above all, on the radio you don't have to see the way he shakes, that used to drive me batty.

[midknight]

I think you guys are a bit hard on RMC.

Of course its populist...how the hell do you expect a radio station that consecrates half of its air time to sports to be anything else?
Of course the subjects are knee jerk, but thats exactly how football is. You're only as good as your last match. In any case, the "subjects" of the day, are debates designed to create controversy...not necessarily to be objective, but it s very possible (and has happened) that the guy who makes them up (can't remember his name) can be shot down by all of his colleagues (and the callers) whenever he goes over the top with his assumptions.
They are made to be debated and forgotton as soon as you go to sleep. At the end of the season, we'll see who's right wrong and insane.

Also, I don't think RMC is anti OL or pro OM. The thing is that two of their most important presenters (Gilbert Brébois (sic) I think) and Roland Courbebis are. However, other than the individual opinions of these two, who usually assume them as such, you can't say its the stations stance? Basically you have a mix of archetypal commentators, and they duke it out. No one ever wins the arguments, but thats not the point...

That "decline of French football" theme has made the rounds 15 times or so ever since the beginning of the year, and had not much to do with the Lyon getting beat down as an altogether poor second half of the league last season (what with top clubs underperforming - Lyon included), and a bad start for French clubs in European competition this time around (Marseille's win at Liverpool excepted). As a matter of fact, if i remember correctly, one commentator repeatedly devalued the OM victory by stating that Liverpool aligned an "équipe en bois" that day and paid the price

If there's anything to remark, its the thinly veiled hostility towards Thiriez and the LFP's position in the context of the renegociation of the TV rights. For some reason, RMC seems out to prove that the ligue 1 isn't worth as much as Thiriez wants Canal to pay for it, but they're not alone in that respect, if you watch 100% foot or even read the Equipe. The question to who has an axe to grind.

As far as their ingame commentary goes, i'm cool with it. It may not eb conventional, but they tend to sugarcoat things and be a lot less reserved than on other stations (namely rtl/europe 2) - its good to hear someone say that an action isn't worthy of the CFA when its crap and go all crazy for a goal like if its a World Cup final when a brillint shot scores.

I used to listen to them a lot in the morning at one point, particularly in the run up towards elections, but I grew out of it because I find them way too franco-français for my taste

[guignol]

i actually can't find fault with the talk part of RMC, i rarely (well, never) listen to it and it certainly can't be any worse, nor expected to be any better, than sports talk in the states. our local hit&sport is quite a mixed bag too, the insightful is far outweighed by the trivial and the delusional, le grand n'importe quoi...

it's not any kind of favoritism or criticism in their match reporting that gets up my nostrils either. it's just that when i'm listening to a match on the radio, i want it to follow the match as closely as possible, i don't need the peanut gallery approach. football on radio can't be covered with the traditional 1 PBP and 1 colorman. most commentators are incapable of doing real play-by-play anyway, it goes too fast, so they end up BOTH doing color... on hit&sport they treat the problem the other way: both announcers do PBP, relaying each other when they're out of breath, which is after about 20 seconds. at the end they're probably as tired as the players, but at least they've given the listeners a direct idea of the match instead of just a preview of tomorrow morning's papers.

[Pierre-Henri]

So true. France Bleue Alsace does even worse, since they read SMS from the fans. Messages they receive during the play : "ha, ha, Kevin passe le bonjour à Samantha", that kind of things.

Unfortunately, "auditors' comments every time" is the big policy at Radio France, and not only at the local stations. It's still better than the commercials, mind you, but I'd prefer to hear the knowledgeable pundits more, not the guys who send SMS because they want to say hello to their highschool friends. France Inter too is becoming really annoying because of this trend.

I don't need the radio to talk with the guy next door. I can do that by myself. I need the radio to offer me serious and authorized comments, especially from the reporters who are actually seeing the game.

[guignol]

France Bleue P-H???

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i though i was old!

[Pierre-Henri]

Not France Bleue, you silly ! France Bleue Alsace ! The local, public network. They've changed their name. Before, it was Radio France Alsace. Anyway, since I've no TV (freedom !), I need the radio to follow my beloved Storks. I choose France Bleue Alsace because they don't give commercials.

Anyway. What's this bourgeois prejudice against la java ? Elitist :p !

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